The slo-mo train wreck that we have become accustomed to watching since Big Momma Carmel Angelo retired in March seems to have stalled. Say what you will about former CEO Angelo, but she wouldn’t have…
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The highlight of Tuesday morning's discussion of the Board's attempt to blame Auditor-Controller-Tax Collector Chamise Cubbison for financial reporting delays was when Chief Deputy Auditor Controller Kiki DeLong came to the podium and bluntly told…
Last Tuesday, the Supervisors briefly discussed two seemingly minor consent agenda items that should be captured for posterity because they are filled with potential problems and indications of managerial failure. The first was the item…
From an unbylined water agency meeting summary in last week’s Fort Bragg Advocate: “County officials ended the update by noting that all of the water district managers ‘agree that another year of drought will present…
Supervisor Mulheren: “September 19: At the Great Redwood Trail Agency Meeting in Healdsburg we received a presentation by the consultant about the Master Plan Process for the Great Redwood Trail.” Response: But when we went…
For about three years in the late 1970s my brother Hugh was an administrative law judge for the state’s Social Services Department, a “Welfare Hearing Officer.” His job basically entailed driving around northern California’s rural…
Independent Coast Observer reporter Susan Wolbarst saved everybody a lot of time and trouble last week by summarizing last Tuesday's painfully long Board of Supervisors discussion of the County's cannabis permit and equity grant programs…