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Off the Record 6/24/2025

A READER WRITES: On County functioning: 100% they will hire “managers” with a proper degree to hold the space and bill for services. The managers are not trained, nor mentored because there are No Mentors…

Off the Record 6/17/2025

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…

Off the Record 6/10/2025

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…

Off The Record 6/3/2025

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…

Off the Record 5/26/2025

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…

Off the Record 5/21/2025

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…

Off the Record 5/12/2025

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,…

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