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Off the Record 12/23/2025

KATHERINE ‘KIT’ ELLIOTT TO RETURN AS MENDOCINO COUNTY COUNSEL, but as a “contractor” for six months. After that…? Elliott will be paid $31,666 per month, for a total contract value of $190k, or 960 hours…

Off the Record 12/16/2025

PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR (My Annual Remembrance) by Bruce Anderson Count me as one. I was two, my brother one, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. My brother and I were born…

Off the Record 12/10/2025

AT TUESDAY’S SPECIAL BOARD MEETING, after Supervisor John Haschak first announced that the Board would discuss the big, recently completed $800k “draft” state audit report — some 18 months in the making — for a…

Off the Record 12/2/2025

LINDY PETERS: Here is some perspective on the Fort Bragg City Council pay scale. Every 2 weeks we receive a paycheck that amounts to roughly $215. So that comes to about $107.50 a week. If…

Off the Record 11/25/2025

MIKE GENIELLA: Why did Judge Brennan apparently give the court only five days' notice of his stepping down in the face of Judge Ann Moorman's service on the state appellate court, and the required training…

Off the Record 11/19/2025

SHERIFF MATT KENDALL: Winter is well on its way and I’m hopeful everyone will be prepared for some challenging weather. This morning I ran into a few problems on the way to work. Thankfully, our…

Off the Record 11/12/2025

REACH A CERTAIN AGE and you start to fall apart. For me, the great disassembly began when I hit 70, and has accelerated since to where I spend at least one day a week at…

Off the Record 11/4/2025

I SHOULD HAVE REALIZED I was in for a major bummer when I saw that I was the only person in the theater. Then, when ‘One Battle After Another’ kicked off, and the audio-visual filmic…

Off The Record 10/28/2025

DAILY MAIL, Saturday morning: “Thousands of 'No Kings' protesters clutching obscene signs pack the streets to oppose Trump… as America braces for violent chaos.” DOUBT IT, but violent resistance to Trump's daily crimes is the…

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