On Tuesday, the five overpaid bumblers purporting to be the Mendocino County Board of “Supervisors” laughingly blathersquashed another of lame-duck Supervisor John Haschak’s well-intended but weak proposals. After having been promised by his Board colleagues…
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The survey, conducted by Oakland-based FM3-Research polled about 2,000 voters in the unincorporated area of the County with a margin of error of about 4-6%. The results showed that County Government is viewed favorably by…
According to a passing mention in the Ukiah Daily Journal’s Justine Frederiksen’s report on possible Ukiah Library expansion, Supervisor Maureen Mulheren is reported to have been “involved in discussions with representatives from the city of…
A review of recent candidate information for the June 2026 ballot produced some interesting developments: Assistant Assessor Tonya Mounts is the only person running to replace retiring incumbent Katrina Bartolomie for Assessor-Clerk-Recorder. Current Assistant Auditor-Controller…
County Ag Commissioner Angela Godwin told the Supervisors on Tuesday that the County needs to develop a process and “abatement procedure” to mitigate the possible harm that might come from abandoned vineyards in light of…
It’s hard to make sense of Mendocino County’s annual attempts to balance its precarious books, especially this year. On the one hand they talk about a structural deficit based on continually increasing costs (mostly personnel…
Here’s a wonderful expenditure by Mendocino County in a time of tight budgets and unknown bank balances. (We apologize for somehow missing this item back in December when it was buried on the consent calendar…
A few weeks ago we reported on the County’s Tax Collection Mess, highlighted by the December 2025 State audit report which concluded that “The county estimated that as of December 2025 it had $30.6 million…
We were disappointed by Mendocino Voice reporter Sydney Fishman’s coverage of the Supervisors’ discussion of whether First District Supervisor Madeline Cline should be removed as the Board’s appointee to the Inland Water and Power Commission.…