There’s an old parable about a mountain being in labor “uttering immense groans and on earth there was very great expectation. But it gave birth to a mouse. This has been written for you who,…
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Cruising down the Willits end of the Willits Grade one Tuesday evening back when the AVA was a newspaper printed on newsprint at about 6:30pm , traveling in the slow lane at a leisurely, lawful…
“We’re all over the place,” said frustrated First District Supervisor Madeline Cline after listening to her colleagues bat around the question of how the County can help fund volunteer ambulance services in the unincorporated areas…
Or is it $16 million? Or $11 million? Nobody knows. A chart buried deep in the CEO’s “Q1-Budget Presentation for FY25-26” prompted a very surprised reaction from Mendo’s historically in the dark Supervisors on Tuesday. …
Supervisor Maureen Mulheren (Facebook video, Wednesday, October 29, 2025): “I have been thinking a lot about the way that elected officials… people try to pigeon hole them into one specific point. The one that I…
At the beginning of Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, County Counsel Charlotte Scott replied to a question from Supervisor Ted Williams about meeting with a citizen to straighten out a Planning & Building government code…
Although some interesting points were made, both pro and con, Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors discussion of a proposed resolution to, sort of, oppose the removal of Scott Dam and the “Potter Valley Project” came down…
A discussion at the Tuesday, October 7, 2025 Supervisors meeting began as another self-evident analysis of the shaky finances of the County’s three volunteer ambulance service operations in the unincorporated areas morphed into a larger…
As expected, the Supervisors were flummoxed on Tuesday by their CEO’s attempt to dump some raw staffing requests at their podium without any recommendations, budget data, or analysis. The first item to be plopped before…