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$800,000 For This? State Auditor Tells Mendo What It Already Knows.

Did we really need an $800,000 audit team of made up of Mr. Grant Parks, California State Auditor, and his overlarge team of green-eyeshaders: Bob Harris, Audit Principal, Grayson Hough, Senior Auditor, Brandy Roberts, Dominik…

Power is out in Anderson Valley

Went out during Tuesday night storm. We are working on a basic text post which, if lucky, should be posted soon.

Road Tax Accountability Provisions

Back in 2018 when he was running for Fifth District Supervisor Hopland contractor David Roderick made road conditions a campaign priority, saying: “People say that it's $1 million a mile to pave a road. But…

‘Accountability Provisions’?

Last week Mendolocal.news reporter Elise Cox broke the unsurprising news that “Mendocino County Supervisors' Approval Rating Stinks.” According to the results of a Mendocino Council of Governments (MCOG) survey to gauge the level of support…

Follow The Bouncing Budget

Item 4c on the October 7 Supervisors agenda called for the Supervisors to “Approve or Deny Requests from Department Heads and Elected Officials Regarding Budget Impacts, Funding and Recruitment of Vacant or New Positions Following…

Budget Ad Hoc Molehill Gives Birth To Dead Mouse

There’s an old parable about a mountain being in labor “uttering immense groans and on earth there was very great expectation. But it gave birth to a mouse. This has been written for you who,…

Road Kill

Cruising down the Willits end of the Willits Grade one Tuesday evening back when the AVA was a newspaper printed on newsprint at about 6:30pm , traveling in the slow lane at a leisurely, lawful…

Mulheren To The Rescue

“We’re all over the place,” said frustrated First District Supervisor Madeline Cline after listening to her colleagues bat around the question of how the County can help fund volunteer  ambulance services in the unincorporated areas…

County Finds $12 Million Lying Around

Or is it $16 million? Or $11 million? Nobody knows. A chart buried deep in the CEO’s “Q1-Budget Presentation for FY25-26” prompted a very surprised reaction from Mendo’s historically in the dark Supervisors on Tuesday. …

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