Let me throw some numbers at you. Exactly a week ago last Sunday, Laytonville’s precipitation for the rain year starting July 1 was 2.33 inches.…
Posts published by “Jim Shields”
For the past three years, I’ve been urging the Board of Supervisors to assert their leadership, via the dormant county Water Agency, in the critical…
Many folks have contacted me regarding the situation involving the noise generated the past week by frost-protection fans operated by Henry’s Original at their 101…
In response to my recent column on the continuing chaos of marijuana cultivation in this county, a number of folks sent along their thoughts on…
Yes, as many of you have let me know, this column — actually a version of it — now appears every Friday in the Ukiah…
At their Sept. 14 meeting, Supervisors Dan Gjerde, Ted Williams, Glenn McGourty, and Mo Mulheren, all of whom have steadfastly supported the Weed Expansion Ordinance,…
The topic on most folk’s minds was front-and-center at last Tuesday’s (August 31) Board of Supervisors meeting where they unanimously approved two agenda items dealing…
Patti Campbell, Richard Shoemaker and David Colfax are to be commended for their actions at last week’s Supes’ meeting. They righted a wrong, and you…
All-time records are being set now in weed plantings everywhere in this county. This insane response to the Supervisors’ Cannabis Expansion Ordinance is occurring after…
There’s hardly a person in Mendocino County who is not aware of the fact that marijuana cultivation is totally out of control. There are four…
I thought the best way to bring you up-to-date on the status of the two referendums seeking an election to overturn, in part or in…