SURPRISE! Auditor-Controller/Treasurer Tax Collector Chamise Cubbison told the Supervisors a few weeks ago that tax delinquency and tax default property sales were still a long way off because of the bureaucrat hurdles involved. But on…
Posts published in “Off the Record”
THE STORY about the sale of the Press Democrat to the predatory hedge fund which has already destroyed local papers here in oblivious Mendo, soft-pedals criticism of the paper's current owners, Darius Anderson and former…
SHERIFF KENDALL ON BLACK MARKET MARIJUANA: (Statement to Supervisors, Tuesday, May 22, 2025) If anybody has read the news lately they’d know that we had a lot of homicides last week. A lot of people…
JIM SHIELDS: I have some very sad news. My good friend John Pinches has just passed away. Johnny had been hospitalized for the past week. The family is requesting a bit of time to deal…
FRED GARDNER: The discarded book from the Larkspur Library quoted admiringly in Ed Notes…. The night before I was reading a book of essays by Gore Vidal discarded by the Oil City, Pennsylvania library in…
MIKE GENIELLA: A Clarification Is Needed. Some believe the City of Ukiah intends to demolish Alex R. Thomas Plaza. A fledgling petition drive has been launched to block such a move. It is based, apparently,…
WHEN THE GRAND JURY published that smiling photo of themselves with the Supervisors and the Presiding Judge, they were basically declaring in advance that they had no intention of independently reviewing the County’s operations or…