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.…
Posts published by “Jim Shields”
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…
At our Town Council (Laytonville Area Municipal Advisory Council: Valerie Edwards, Traci Pellar, MacKenzie O'Donnell, David Jeffreys, Ran Bush, and Jim Shields) meeting on Jan. 22nd, we voted unanimously to support the following proposed actions:…
It was no muss, no fuss at Board of Supervisors first meeting of the year on Tuesday, Jan. 7. The first order of business was the swearing-in of Supervisors-Elect Bernie Bernie Norvell and Madeline Cline,…
Last week I wrote about how our elected representatives and their staff down in the county seat far too often flummox themselves and disrupt the orderliness of the governing process by creating problems seemingly out…