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…
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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…
In the fall of 2008, the Supervisors shoved their long-time Planning and Building Director Ray Hall out the door, wishing the portly bumbler well in the insincere fashion characteristic of Mendo farewells. In a deposition…
We’ve known for years that Mendocino County department heads do their own budget tracking and reporting and that those reports have been requested by Supervisor Williams periodically, with no support from his colleagues. We recently…
Ray Charles distrusted people, naturally. But it was, well, eye-opening to realize how his blindness lead to his distrust. We recently had a chance to re-review the movie-biography of Ray Charles, simply called “Ray.” It…
When District Attorney David Eyster filed trumped up felony misappropriation charges against former County Auditor Chamise Cubbison more than a year ago, Eyster thought he had a good case. Most outside observers thought the case…