(Overheard at an Air Force radar systems acquisition office, mid-1970s.) … * * * Hey, Sarge. You left the safe open again. Oh, get off my case. Nothing in there’s important. But op-sec. Don’t you…
Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”
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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 lay off more sheriff’s deputies, seven of them — this…
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 certain limited circles on the Coast. Since some people continue…
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 there's a frantic effort underway to save money without laying…
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, presented at the stormy October Board meeting, have been resolved.…
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 meeting as the Board and Sheriff Tom Allman took yet…
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?? For the last few years the Board of the only…