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Laura Hamburg’s application for her Boonville pot dispensary has shot her father in his Supervisorial foot; it has removed the Pot Brigade's most pot-friendly Supervisor from the rule drafting process.

Community Services District: No Pot Store Next Door

CSD Director Kirk Wilder was adamantly opposed to the dispensary idea, forthrightly describing medical marijuana as “a bunch of crap” — meaning that he thinks most “medical” marijuana smokers have no real medical condition that pot will help.

The Rest of the Sausage

Last week our Supervisors report was pretty long so we didn’t publish the full dialogue surrounding the motion at the end of the Board of Supervisors meeting to get the Final Environmental Impact Report for…

Hydrilla & Uncooked Sausage

“Clear Lake is in trouble on many fronts,” reported Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg at last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Clear Lake is in Lake County, not Mendocino County, but Supervisor Hamburg’s promiscuous attentions…

Children & Seniors? Eh. Fish? Save ‘Em!

As last week's meeting wound down, the Supervisors delivered their typically terse, minimally-informative “supervisors reports.” Pinches sits on the Mendocino Transit Authority Board, but he’s on record that he thinks the MTA is wasting millions…

Mendo’s Crazy Mental Health Funding

Supervisor Dan Hamburg tried to puzzle his way through the County’s mental health funding at last Tuesday’s meeting of the supervisors. The dependably exasperating effort has eroded the mental health of many of its explorers…

Logging Little River Airport

Before the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors got down to the equivalent of a bake sale on the Titanic's poop deck last Tuesday, a group of gray-haired Ukiahans made their case that Mendo should seriously…

Hamburg & The Bubble Bath People

After last week's County Redistricting Committee meeting was adjourned, Supervisor Dan Hamburg ambled in to privately discuss the Committee’s work with a few of the people in the room. Hamburg had not attended any previous…

Getting Out From Under Affinito

Dominic Affinito still enjoys an annual $316,000 lease agreement with Mendocino County, a deal engineered by Kendell Smith's incompetent predecessor Patti Campbell, for the barn-like Fort Bragg Social Services building.

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