Norm Thurston: “…With regards to public education, anyone who is unhappy with it should run for the school board.” Have you looked at local school board agendas lately? They’re monopolized by non-academic subjects put before…
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As expected, on Tuesday at the Board of Supervisors first meeting of the year, nothing substantive was addressed. After the two new Supervisors were sworn in, Supervisor John Haschak told his colleagues that abstentions would…
Next Tuesday’s Supervisors meeting mostly concerns inconsequential housekeeping items: meeting schedules, committee assignments, board rules, etc. There are some seemingly innocuous but significant changes buried in Item 4c, the adoption of some new provisions for…
Nothing but routine business and pointless bureuacratic navel-gazing at the Supervisors meeting on Tuesday. Supervisor Dan Gjerde had resigned last month and wasn’t even there to get his whereases. Most decisions were conveniently put off…
Nobody is happy with the Mendocino County Air Quality Management District’s (AQMD) proposal to raise residential burn permit fees from $19 to a ridiculous $135. Even the Air Quality Management District representatives — Interim Air…
Periodically, it’s necessary to look back at the original text of Measure B because, after more than seven years, there’s still no indication that Mendo will comply with it, much less even cares. And this,…
Mendocino County Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters Katrina Bartolomie told the Supervisors on Tuesday that she had finished the certification of the November 5 election and overall, the turnout was down by a few percentage points from…