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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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The Wine Industry’s Mendo Gofers

  Glen McGourty, UC Extension Farm Advisor, Mendocino County branch, is paid out of tax money to give free technical advice to grape growers about how to nurture their thirsty grapes. McGourty's advice is water-intensive.…

Pillsbury Dough Boy Opposes Booze Regulation

This is not the Pillsbury Doughboy. His name is Glen McGourty and he'sMendo's UC Extension Farm Advisor. (I use the term "farm" loosely.) Taxpayers pay Mr. McGourty to give free technical advice to grape growers/booze…

Private Club Or Public Airport?

The unspeakable was spoken at last Wednesday's Community Services District board meeting, beginning with an oblique suggestion that airport access fees be increased. Airport Manager and CSD trustee Kirk Wilder pointed out that the FAA…

Here we go…

This blog derives its name from the Editor's back page of the long defunct "Environment Magazine," then edited by Sheldon Novick out of Washington University in St. Louis where I served as a contributor and…

Fortune Cookies & Accomplishments

Planning Director Nash Gonzalez is a man whose consciousness might be described as “highly evolved” or non-existent. Is he putting us on or is he clinically delusional? With a straight face, Gonzalez listed his “accomplishments”…

‘I’m Outta My Water’

On October 6 the Board of Supervisors unani­mously approved the 200-unit housing development project south of Ukiah known as “Garden’s Gate.” Ironists traveling Ukiah's State Street north of Gar­den's Gate will wonder where the garden…

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