No, no. It's not what you may think. This is a story told by my father about an experience he had while he was in…
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In the Summer of 1998 an enterprising fisherman and timber worker named David McCutcheon leased a bare acre of land from Ed Colombi Sr. The…
In a letter from San Quentin, Aaron Vargas talks prison & politics.
It took the Supes no time at all to give a 15-year county-wide garbage contract to Solid Waste of Willits, a private business owned by an enterprising fellow named Jerry Ward.
All eight of Mendocino County's "bargaining units" are up for negotiation this year. The "Department Head" bargaining unit, an oxymoronic joke anywhere but Mendocino County,…
On June 15 the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors whacked the Sheriff’s Department $2 million. Two million. The vote was 4-1, McCowen dissenting.
Of course the "Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010" which will be on the ballot in November will not be called "Proposition 420."…
Proposition 39 was approved by California's voters in 2000. It was called the "School Facilities. 55% Local Vote. Bonds, Taxes, Accountability Requirements." It passed statewide…
The Mendocino County Grand Jury gets extra credit for persistence, if not effectiveness. For the fourth year in a row, the Grand Jury has concluded…
If the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors were a child, the diagnosis would be attention deficit disorder.
There were some interesting things about Tuesday's very preliminary election results which should not go unnoticed.