THAT BIG FINANCIAL RECKONING MEETING of the Willits City Council last Monday night to address their dire financial situation (an estimated $2.4 million deficit this fiscal year) resulted in a Declaration of Fiscal Emergency and…
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SAN FRANCISCO, according to its own figures, is putting out $458,000 per day to house and help homeless people, which works out to $34 a day per homeless person, whether they are on the streets,…
MENDOLOCAL.NEWS AND THE U.S. POST OFFICE IN THE VILLAGE OF MENDOCINO Donation letters returned to sender by Elise Cox I want to thank everyone who responded to my call for help funding our operational expenses…
SUPERVISOR MAUREEN MULHEREN posts CEO job offer on her facebook page: This might seem random but while the official recruitment for CEO has not hit the County website it’s been on my mind so I’m…
A READER WRITES: SHORT TERM RENTALS (STRs): 823 Homes Removed From Mendocino Housing Market I pulled current Airbnb listings for 15 Mendocino County communities using AirRoi to scrape market data (January 2026): Fort Bragg: 226;…
DA HAS ‘GREAT CONCERNS’ ABOUT THE RELOCATION OF HIS OFFICES TO ACCOMMODATE THE NEW COURTHOUSE At the Tuesday, February 3, 2026 Board of Supervisors meeting District Attorney David Eyster warned the Board about looming major…
FLASHBACKS IN THE DELUGE of unhappy news this week was another airliner crash in Indonesia. The plane was flying from Jakarta to the Borneo city of Pontianak. Pontianak! In the year of living dangerously, 1965,…
POLL WORKERS NEEDED ON THE COAST To Registered Voters on the Mendocino County Coast: The Mendocino County Elections Office is looking to add a few “Election Day Workers” to our Polling Place Teams throughout the…
THE ANNUAL hypocrisy defaming the memory of Martin Luther King kicks in Monday, an orgy of media self-congratulation on the reverence Americans now have, thanks to King, for non-violent political progress when in living fact…