Remember that Grand Jury report from last June entitled “25 Years of Transient Human Resources Leadership and a Hobbled Human Resources Department”? From the intro: “The 2022-2023 Mendocino County Civil Grand Jury (GJ) has identified…
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(First draft of a Note to the state Auditor.) Mendocino County has never done a very good job of keeping track of its “special funds.” Just a casual glance at the County’s last two budget…
The other major item on Tuesday’s agenda — after the Board gave themselves a big raise, connected future raises to their own handouts to subordinates, and ignored critical public comment as usual — was another…
A series of fires broke out Thursday afternoon near the Anderson Valley Grange. Burning on both sides of Highway 128, the blaze, reported at 3:30pm, spread rapidly into the hills near Prather Camp to the west, Vista…
California taxpayers probably paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a slick half-hour ad on NBC Bay Area Sunday night. It was quite the propaganda coup, although we doubt many people actually watch “OpenRoads with…
During the first year of his first term, Supervisor Ted Williams correctly pointed that Mental Health Services in Mendocino County should be competitively bid, not handed over to the Schraeders Anchor Health Management (aka Redwood…
In your face, Board critics: Supervisors to raise their own salaries again. From $96k per year to $111k per year! Almost 12% over an already very high salary. Item 4c on next Tuesday’s Board Agenda:…