Date: March 15, 2011. Location: Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Meeting, Ukiah. Subject: The Mendocino County Museum’s declining budget. * * * Board Chair Kendall Smith: Well, I believe— Supervisor John McCowen: Madam Chair. Smith:…
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Public Concern over Fallout Related to Nuclear Power Plant in Japan According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), given the thousands of miles between the two countries, Hawaii, Alaska, the US Territories and the U.S…
We’ve heard it many times: Don't you understand? We have no money! The cupboard is bare! It's a structural imbalance! Our ability to borrow is jeopardized! We have no reserves! The Sheriff is overrunning his…
The Health and Human Services Department, the County’s largest department, still has a $600k deficit for CalWorks, a $170k deficit for In-Home Supportive Services and a $1.3 mil shortfall in Mental Health — almost all…
As expected, Supervisor John McCowen brought up Mendocino County’s participation in the perpetual sales of “unbuildable” Brooktrails lots to unsuspecting buyers. When these unsuspecting buyers tardily figure out that there is not now nor is…
Many local liberals and other Obama supporters continue to think that somehow Obamacare (aka “the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”) will bail them out and they “hope” that health care will magically become “affordable” starting in 2014.
Thanks to some excellent follow up work by Ukiah Daily Journal reporter Tiffany Revelle, we learned last week that the County is still paying an outrageous $308,000 per year in rent to Dominic Affinito for…
The lowest point in last Tuesday’s slightly unhinged Board of Supervisors meeting was the slam dunk of Supervisor John McCowen’s noble attempt to address the flagrantly wasteful and spectacularly unneeded remodel of the Board of…
Besides the potential health affects cited by Antonia Lamb and the other "electrosensitives" at last week's Supervisors meeting, serious questions about smart meters remain.