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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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Disaster Preparedness

During my early days in the Air Force one of my duties was Base Mobility Plans officer. It was a dull job that nobody would volunteer for. I got stuck with it because Colonel Taylor…

MRC’s Quest For Revenge

Usually, when we see court cases listed under “Closed Session” agenda items for the Board of Supes we don’t have any idea what’s at issue, even though the court filings themselves are available to the…

Shall The Circle Be Unbroken!

John Arteaga, a regular columnist for the Ukiah Daily Journal, recently mentioned the expensive lawsuit filed by the Ukiah Valley Sanitation District against the City of Ukiah. The lawsuit has been in the works for…

County Notes (Aug. 8, 2018)

WHAT SEEMED to be a routine albeit ‘emergency’ Big Fires meeting of the Supervisors at their meeting of Tuesday July 31st turned rhetorically fiery when Sheriff Allman took the podium. After praising the stellar performances…

County Notes (Aug. 1, 2018)

UNPRECEDENTED: A reasonable response from the Supervisors to a public comment! Ron Edwards of Willits offered a couple of simple suggestions to improve the Pot Permit report at the recent meeting of the Board of…

County Notes (July 25, 2018)

DEPARTMENT OF UNINTENTIONAL SATIRE: From the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Agenda Item 5a, July 24, 2018:  "Noticed Public Hearing - Discussion and Possible Action Including Adoption of Resolution Accepting Two Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Funded…

County Notes

THE UNSPOKEN THEME of Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting was Ignore All  Representatives of all advisory boards — the Behavioral Health Advisory Board, the Library Board, the Museum Board, the cannabis permit “working groups.” Pot permit stalwart…

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