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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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Top Secret

(Overheard at an Air Force radar systems acquisition office, mid-1970s.) … * * * Hey, Sarge. You left the safe open again. Oh, get off…

Colfax’s Last Rant

Before and after the Supervisors took a break for a tax-paid  "luncheonreception to honor David [Colfax]" at last week's meeting, they took several hours to…

State Socialism & The Village of Mendocino

Because the subject seems to have disturbed some of the listserve shut-ins, and because with them history starts all over again every afternoon when they…

The MCN Report

The history and highly unusual arrangement of Mendocino Community Network owned and operated by Mendocino Unified School District has come up for discussion recently among…

4850, 5150…187

Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Meeting was oddly serene given the County’s hemorrhaging budget, especially as it affects The Sheriff’s Department. Out in Sheriff Allman's office…

Problem Solving, School Board Style

The Anderson Valley School Board seems to have satisfied itself that the complaints of Ernie Pardini, football coach John Toohey and other local football advocates,…

Squeezing the Sheriff’s Dry Turnip

Can marijuana money save the Sheriff’s budget? Can it re-juice his turnip? This Only-In-Mendo question was discussed at length at last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors…

Peter Mugs Paul For Loose Change

How much local property tax money should be allocated to the administration of the Community Services District’s Recreation Committee, Teen Center, and Boonville International Airport??…

A Brief History of the Sheriff’s Budget

Back in 1994, the Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Sheriff Jim Tuso had spent…

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