PROPERTY, SALES AND THE BED TAX are all up from last year. They’ve been steadily increasing since the Great Recession in 2009. That’s probably why official Mendo doesn’t seem worried about a number of significant budget…
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With all the time and attention County officials are giving to marijuana one might think that marijuana is the County’s biggest problem. But as Sheriff Allman likes to say, "This is not the County of…
LAST OCTOBER, Acting Ag Commissioner Diane Curry told the Board of Supervisors that as far as she knew “only three” of the 734 pot cultivation applicants up to that point had suffered Fish & Wildlife…
Margie Handley, Chairperson of the Howard Hospital Foundation, opened the meeting by telling the Measure B (Mental Health Facilties and Treatment) Advisory Board that the Old Howard Hospital is “a viable option.” She said some…
Your trusty local reporter, as always selflessly volunteering for the betterment of the community, has never been thrown out of a public meeting. But, after being asked to attend the local school district's Budget Reduction…
At last Tuesday’s meeting of the Supervisors, (former) Interim Ag Commissioner Diane Curry defended her department’s slo-mo handling of pot permits by essentially saying the process was and is just too complicated. Curry made an…
Sheriff Tom Allman’s Measure B Advisory Committee got off to a faltering start Wednesday of last week. It appeared that none of the eleven “commissioners” had come prepared, even though they all supported Measure B…
IT TURNS OUT, Mendo is wasting a lot more than $50k on their pot regulation planning/zoning consultant. And it’s more of a waste than we thought. The County is paying $142,000 to Michael Baker International…