When Ron Edwards described Mendo County's cockamamie marijuana policy problems as the “Curse of the Ad Hoc” at the Supes’ Special Cannabis meeting last Thursday, Edwards' frustration was obvious.
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During last Tuesday's first quarter budget update the Board of Supervisors discussed several capital improvement projects. One of them was the estimated $25 million jail expansion project.
Mendo’s budgeters have produced their first quarter budget review for Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. The numbers don't add up. Readers may recall our preliminary attempt last week to calculate the size of the looming…
Amy Wynn is a professional planner from the Mendocino Coast whose business is called “Wynn Coastal Planning & Biology.” Ms. Wynn has already established a well-deserved reputation for helping Coast businesses and property owners navigate…
Last month we asked County CEO Carmel Angelo for clarification of several problematic budget categories discussed at recent meetings of the Supervisors. We assumed that since they had been discussed and were known to be…
Although last Thursday night's meeting about the proposed water and septic system for downtown Boonville was advertised as "Notice of Preparation of Environmental Impact Report," the meeting had very little to do with anything "environmental."…
Last March we wrote about the case of Chris Gurr who lives on the Boonville Road on the Ukiah side of the hill.
Supervisor John McCowen opened Tuesday’s discussion of the local ambulance services with a worrying anecdote: “I was told that last Friday we had a period of time in Ukiah Valley, Redwood Valley where there were…
Last March Howard Hospital Foundation President Margie Handley introduced the “project manager” her foundation had hired for about $40k to prepare a cost estimate for converting the Old Howard Hospital in Willits into a Psychiatric…