Last week, the California Coastal Commission rejected the proposed construction of a desalination plant in Huntington Beach “sealing the controversial project’s fate after more than 20 years of debate,” according to Calmatters. “The unanimous decision…
Posts published by “Jim Shields”
More good news on the weather and drought fronts. While all of California is classified by the U.S. Drought Monitor as being in a ”severe drought” or “extreme drought”, we’re fortunate here in Laytonville’s Long…
I found out a long time ago that problems just don’t happen, people make them happen. So it’s half-past enough already for the Board of Supervisors to end this 7-month unseemly, unnecessary, and unwarranted legal…
You can say everybody who’s a politician is getting into the drought act. They’re all coming up with solutions to end all solutions. It would help if Mother Nature were giving her advice to the…
At this week’s Board of Supervisors meeting (March 15), a series of recommendations were discussed concerning the ongoing drought and related activities involving property owners selling water to water haulers from existing wells or drilling…
Gavin Newsom’s mental health proposal released this past Thursday is the first workable, feasible and, dare I say, spot-on plan, that if enacted into law, could actually begin to solve a 50-year-old problem. Perhaps as…
A month ago I wrote a column featuring former County Supervisor John McCowen’s thoughts on retiring CEO Carmel Angelo’s tenure in Mendo County. As I said then, a number of authoritarian, PC lunatics called McCowen’s…