Mendocino County is facing a deepening structural deficit, with projected expenses continuing to outpace revenues through at least 2030, according to a recent mid-year budget review and preliminary forecasts for fiscal year 2026–27 (July 2026…
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Should Mendocino County spend $500,000 on legal and lobbying work tied to the decommissioning of the Potter Valley Project — or put that money toward repairing roads? Supervisors wrestled with that question at Tuesday’s board…
It’s hard to make sense of Mendocino County’s annual attempts to balance its precarious books, especially this year. On the one hand they talk about a structural deficit based on continually increasing costs (mostly personnel…
Allan Green’s new book, “Pioneers of Anderson Valley Wine,” attempts to capture their stories before they disappear. The memories start with the earliest grape growers who were mostly Italian immigrants. The second wave of growers…
“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him: they crush those beneath them.” – Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights, published first under the alias, Ellis Bell,…
There will be a memorial get-together honoring Wayne Justmann today at 2 PM, at 3049 Adaline Ave. in Berkeley. I got to know him in 1996, when he was "head of security" at the San…
Yes, once upon a time Boy Scout troops could get permission to hike for seven days through timber company, private lands and Jackson State Forest. The hike was first done in the 1950s and last…
What to do with Don Giovanni? The title character—not to mention the universally recognized operatic masterpiece that bears his name—should, by rights, have been cancelled in the wake of #MeToo and probably long before. Mozart’s…
Allan Green, founder and long time owner of Greenwood Ridge Winery and Tasting Room, has recently published a book titled, “Pioneers of Anderson Valley Wine.” Anyone with an interest in the early days of the…