There’s an old saying that sometimes your second idea on something is oftentimes better than your first idea. At the Board of Supervisors meeting this Tuesday, June 24th, the Supervisors are planning to take a…
Posts published by “Jim Shields”
Characterizing the County Supervisors recent tentatively approved 2025-26 budget as a “budget-balancing shell game,” Mark Scaramella, of the Anderson Valley Advertiser, posits that the facts just don’t cooperate with those who might disagree with his…
It's impossible not to recognize the seemingly institutional dysfunction in the governing process whether it be at the local, state or federal level. Our elected representatives and their staffs far too often flummox themselves and…
At Tuesday’s (May 6, 2025) Board of Supervisors meeting, the Board unanimously approved the following agenda item: 4i) Discussion and Possible Action Including Approval of Transmission of Letter of Request to State Agencies and Lawmakers…
No Contest This week on his 100th day in office, DJ Trump bloviated about how history-making his first one-hundred days have been. "We're here tonight in the heartland of our nation to celebrate the most…
As you all know, the Supes recently voted to illegally expand weed cultivation sites beyond the Ordinance’ s 10,000 square-foot cap. The effect of this new “re-interpretation” is that it would double the existing cultivation…
History tells us that one of the few times somebody actually successfully brought corporate monopolies to heel, it was President Teddy Roosevelt. At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, the ol’ Roughrider…