When my father retired to Irish Beach in the mid-80s after a 40 year career in the dairy industry, he naively assumed he could live out the rest of his life in modest comfort with my mother in Irish Beach
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My first assignment as a newly minted aircraft maintenance officer at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi
There was very little of interest on the Supervisors agenda for Tuesday. It seems that the more we pay them, the less they meet, the dumber the agenda, although their production is the same meeting or…
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.
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…

