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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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Convenient Amnesia

Summary: Supervisors Keep Pot Tax Money Promised To Taxpayer-Approved Purposes for Themselves. “Measure AJ. Advisory Vote Only.” [2016] “If Mendocino County adopts business license taxes on cannabis businesses by the adoption of the measure adopting…

Budget Bungling 2.0

As expected given the dearth of information requested by the Board and/or provided by staff last week, Tuesday’s budget discussion was another disorganized, muddled mess. In the end we couldn’t even figure out what the…

Budget Balancing By The Numbers

At the Tuesday, March 25, Board of Supervisors meeting, Board Chair John Haschak casually mentioned that the County’s General Fund budget deficit might be as high as $28 million, adding, “but maybe that’s, um, closer…

Budget Bungling, Er, Balancing

Out of the clear blue, during his Supervisor’s Report on Tuesday, Supervisor and Board Chair John Haschak casually told his colleagues: “The Budget Plan. We heard from the CEO that we don’t have a balanced…

The Schoolbus, The Roundabout, The CHP Officer & The Judge

The roundabout south of Fort Bragg where Simpson Lane intersects with Highway 1 is the only roundabout on Highway 1 north of San Francisco. It was opened in 2018 after Caltrans did an analysis that…

Barnstorming With Hot Air: A Self-Made Balloon Man [Nov 2007]

His name is not Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs, but he’ll answer to Kevin Herschman. Oz, as his friends may call him, is the engaging young man piloting the blue balloon…

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