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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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The Bad News Goes Downtown

Let’s begin the new year by describing the Supervisor's latest expression of fiscal austerity, the December 12th meeting with the County’s Retirement Board. That get-together was held in the Ukiah Conference Center in Ukiah's dying…

Congressman Thompson’s Celestial Snoops

Most people are at least dimly aware that our government murders whole families of vaguely identified terrorists by unmanned aircraft called drones. The drones, which also take high-resolution photos, are operated by a video-raised kid…

‘We Don’t Know What We’re Doing’

We can sell off five “surplus” properties and make our broke County some money. That was the thinking at the December 6 meeting of the Supervisors. A couple of the parcels appear to be tax…

Memo Of The Week: Mendolib, Par Excellence

Hi, It was definitely stupid for me to mutter at the council meeting that the seven protest letters that we received were “not very compelling.” I absolutely own that. It was a comment that could…

Slam Dunking Ukiah Ratepayers

The Ukiah City Council, as predicted, slam dunked the ratepayers and gave the City waste hauler everything it could hope for in a twenty year deal for the City's waste collection and operation of the…

Save Hendy Woods Regroups

  More than a hundred locals, most of them gray-haired, attended last Wednesday’s meeting to save Hendy Woods State Park. Most of the under-60 people on hand were the young persons who'd kicked the campaign…

The Grading Ordinance: A Slo-Mo Fiasco

"Fiasco, n., an absolute, abject, ignominious, ludicrous or utterly humiliating failure." Back in the early oughts of 2000 a couple of vineyards slid onto Mendo roadways, prompting some people to wonder why Mendocino County was…

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