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 was put on the Supes’ agenda for last Tuesday. White,…
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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 their responses to the Grand Jury report, item by item,…
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 that electronic cornucopia of misinformation, the Internet, hence a whole…
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 authorization for the Sheriff to sign for an additional three…
In the interest of preserving the reader's mental health, we've edited Mental Health Director Stacey Cryer psuedo-responses to a Grand Jury report that described her agency as a drastic failure.
We didn't expect John Sakowicz's “County labor-management” show on KZYX last Friday morning to live up to the hype Sakowicz posted on the AVA's website early last week. Because? Because public radio in Mendocino County…
“Laura’s Law has always been a non-starter in Mendo. We can’t afford it,” said one County official involved in the preparation for last week’s two-and-a-half-hour presentation on the “court assisted outpatient treatment” program. Advocates think…
After a childhood in the Hebrew National Orphan Home and a youth spent as a labor activist and merchant marine, Harry Fisher volunteered to fight fascism in Spain as a member of the Abraham Lincoln…
After months of lobbying from seniors in the Ukiah Valley, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors took up a “mobile home rent stabilization ordinance” for Mendocino County last Tuesday. Translation: Rent control for trailer parks.…