The first part of last week’s Board of Supervisors discussion of this fiscal year's budget involved a lengthy review of California’s new “criminal justice realignment”…
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My aunt and uncle had a small orchard outside the house where I now live and in that orchard are two plum trees that occasionally…
Described by at least one County insider as “a looming trainwreck,” the trainwreck himself loomed up Tuesday before the Supervisors. He's newly hired Retirement Board…
On August 13, 2012, Mr. Dennis O’Brien, of the Mendocino Environmental Center, filed a $10,000 claim against Mendocino County “for actions of Detective Andrew Whiteaker,…
The supervisors strolled down memory lane at their mid-August meeting, straining to recall that in 2009 they'd received $28,000 “for the creation of a report…
We were skeptical that Mendocino County’s freshly appointed Retirement Administrator Richard White needed a highly paid assistant given Mendo’s sorry fiscal state the day it…
The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors made some history at their July 24 meeting. At the urging of Board Chair John McCowen, they formally discussed…
Fifth District Supervisor Dan Hamburg is a big think guy, as are many of his constituents. The lib-dominated Fifth spends a lot of time on…
Item W on the Board of Supervisors Consent Calendar last Tuesday read: “Approval of a five-year agreement between the Sheriff's office and BI Inc. and…