On Tuesday, the Supervisors unanimously but very belatedly agreed to appoint Supervisors Maureen Mulheren and Madeline Cline to an ad hoc committee to explore how to adjust to the abandonment of the old downtown courthouse…
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Earlier this month, commenting on the Supervisors’ recent decision to allocate $500k of hard to come-by County funds to “water security, we mentioned the big, well-publicized $5 million water project grant for the town of…
At their Wednesday monthly meeting, the AV Community Services District Board discussed a letter they received from Philo resident Morgan Baynham, a long-time member of the Boonville Fair Board. The letter bluntly declared that the…
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…
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…