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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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‘On The House,’ John Boehner’s Barstool Memoir

If you think golf is not only a great form of recreation or business meeting, but a grand metaphor for life and politics, if you admire people like Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and Dick Cheney,…

County Notes: Incumbents & Candidates

Buried deep in Monica Huettl’s recent report in MendoFever.com about the August Redwood Valley Municipal Advisory Council is the following statement which the very reliable Ms. Huettl says came from Supervisor McGourty’s “notes” that he…

County Notes: A Department Of Finance?

“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” — Yogi Berra At their last Board meeting on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 before taking an…

County Notes: Insults, Indecisiveness & Inaction

Item 4a on Tuesday, July 25, 2023’s Board Agenda: “Discussion and Possible Action to Direct Staff to Initiate Modernization of New Hire and Annual Employee Standards Including Position-Appropriate Physical, Psychological, Moral Character and Computer Literacy.…

County Notes: Employees Union Authorizes A Strike

According to a notice on Saturday from the Union’s negotiating committee, a surprising 92.4% of all members (not just of voting members) of the County employees union SEIU 1021 have voted to authorize a strike…

County Notes: Supes To Compound Their Errors

Item 4b) on next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Agenda is described as “Discussion and Possible Action Including Direction to Staff to Develop a Contingency Plan for Creation of Department of Finance Based on Best Practice…

County Notes: Bright Spots

It might come as a surprise to some readers of this space that there were a couple of genuine, if minor, bright spots in Tuesday’s Board of Supervisor meeting. First, with the appraiser staff now…

Is Mendo Imploding?

Watching the Board of Supervisors’ blasé attitude toward the County’s core function of property tax collection it’s hard to escape the sense that Mendo is on the verge of imploding and nobody has any idea…

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