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Anybody Here Know How To Count?

Not long after the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors made one more muddled attempt at clearing up the confusion over their “balanced budget” at last…

Balancing Budgets In Unbalanced Times

At the end of August, Mendocino County's CEO informed the Supervisors that the good ship Mendo was still in the hole to the tune of…

A Pot Grower Wants To Know

Dear Tim Stelloh or Freda Moon, My name is Alejandro. I was reading an article from one of your staff writers Mark Scaramella. In regards to…

Supervisor Kendall Smith Trashes Herself

Ordinarily, when dumb exchanges between public officials occur at public meetings, it's just dumb, and maybe somewhat revealing about the public officials involved. But at…

When Pot And Wine Merge

California is in the slo-mo process of merging wine and marijuana into two branches of the same Intoxication industry. The merger is still in its…

How to Steal $3,000

Three years ago, Supervisor Kendall Smith claimed $14,658 in travel expenses. Among the many other things the regal solon thought the taxpayers should pay for was her pet care.

Ignoring Public Input

Philo’s Daniel Myers, representing Friends of the Navarro Watershed and the Mendocino Chapter of the Sierra Club, took the podium at last Wednesday’s Board of…

Those Wild Pot Tax Revenue Guesses

How do you estimate the commercial value of Mendo Mellow? What do you count? Plants? Processed bud? It's a bit like counting grains of sand on the beach.

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