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…
Posts published by “Jim Shields”
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…
The County’s Chief Executive Officer is an appointed position that is supposed to be subordinate to the Board of Supervisors since they are the ones responsible for hiring the person to serve in the post.…
Gather around, time to spend a quick minute looking at a water resource issue that affects you whether you know it or not. It’s a tortuously convoluted hot mess. It, of course, is the 120-year-old…
By now everyone is aware that the sordid saga that was the politically-motivated prosecution, i.e. persecution, of two women who are long-time county officials, was thrown out of court a week ago. As aptly and…
This past Tuesday, February 11, the Board of Supervisors once again took up the issue of a so-called “re-interpretation” by Cannabis Department staff of a provision in the Weed Ordinance that restricts cultivation areas to…