Without a doubt most County residents know little if anything about something called the Mendocino County Water Agency (MCWA or “Water Agency”). It was originally formed in 1987, with the Board of Supervisors sitting as…
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By now most folks are probably aware that at the most recent Board of Supervisors meeting on August 2, Board Chairman Ted Williams made what appeared to be an astonishing statement about the County keeping…
Don’t be surprised if sometime in the very near future you hear the presiding officer at a local government meeting announce, “This meeting will come to order or we’ll toss you and your behind out!”…
The past two weeks I’ve written columns about both proposed state legislation and a draft County ordinance dealing with regulating groundwater wells. As I’ve disclosed previously, I serve on the committee that wrote the County…
Since the Fall of 2021, I have served on a committee working under the auspices of the Board of Supervisors Ad Hoc Drought Committee comprised of Supervisors John Haschak and Glenn McGourty. The charge given…
We officially closed out the precipitation year on June 30 with a very wet total of 47.25 inches, which is 70.5% of our historic normal of 67 inches in the greater Laytonville area. So we…
As I reported to you last month, there’s a proposed law that would require oil refiners to disclose their per gallon profits on a monthly basis. The bill recently already passed out of the California…