Readers may recall that the County’s budget process simply orders all departments to simply cut their budgets by a fixed amount. Three budget units were…
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“There wasn’t much interest. Nobody who might benefit is interested — as soon as it rains, we don’t need it. And that’s been our water…
The May 24th debate over the layoffs of six deputies saw the same basic positions from all the players that we've seen since 2009 when…
Dear Deputy Walker: NOTICE OF LAYOFF — Due to continued funding problems, on May 24, 2011, the Board of Supervisors authorized the elimination of six…
We’re having trouble reconciling marijuana dispensary fees with the just announced layoffs of six Sheriff's Department patrol deputies, among them Anderson Valley's popular resident deputy, Craig Walker.
County CEO Carmel Angelo, a nurse by training, Big Nurse in practice, recently saw her lush contract renewed for another four years via the automatic, undiscussed consent calendar route. The Board's thinking seems to be that " The devil you know..."
The hot button issue of greatest concern to most locals was conspicuously absent from the agenda.
The Supervisors opened last week’s meeting with a mutedly triumphant announcement that they had come to a tentative agreement with the public attorneys union.
February 4, 2010 To: Patricia Beverly, Boonville California Dear Patricia Beverly: Welcome to the Blue Shield of California or Blue Shield of California Life &…
Have you ever been sorry you asked a question? At last week’s Supervisors meeting, Supervisor McCowen made the mistake of asking CEO Carmel Angelo what…
Unremarked at last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting were several bracing personal snipes of the purely gratuitous type at a prominent Arcata-based PhD fisheries biologist…