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Posts published by “Jim Shields”

Laytonville Grocery Crisis

Last week, the Laytonville Area Municipal Advisory Council (LAMAC) unanimously approved a letter-statement recognizing and thanking businesses, non-governmental organizations, and non-profits for their efforts in providing much-needed basic food supplies in our community. Serving on…

Kangaroo Looking For A Court

Here’s the latest installment in the super-politically charged, three-ring legal circus that is the Chamise Cubbison affair. At the Oct. 17 BOS meeting, the County’s ever-escalating fiscal dilemma was propelled even further into chaos when…

Fixing Problems: Starting With The Cubbison Affair

Before getting down to the business at-hand today, I want to let you know that all politics aside, I am personally embarrassed to live and work in a county that is as dysfunctional as this…

Things Get Worse 

Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse in Mendocino County given its fiscal mess and talk of a bankruptcy-style reorganization plan, things get worse. At this week’s BOS meeting (Oct. 17), the situation…

Public Thoughts On County’s ‘Fiscal Crisis’

The past couple of weeks, I’ve covered the fiscal crisis that has been the main topic under discussion at Board of Supervisors meetings for the last year. I’ve called for the County to stop talking…

Real Deal On County’s Fiscal Crisis

Most folks know that for months, I’ve called for the County to stop talking about the County’s fiscal crisis and start doing something, get to the bottom of the root cause(s), and then take decisive…

Nazis & County High Finance

This week’s Supes meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 26, was Zoom-bombed by three or four idiots who called in with racist and anti-Semitic rants that were immediately cut-off by Board Chair Glenn McGourty. I believe they…

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