According to an item buried deep in next Tuesday’s board agenda packet the county is no longer planning to institute a “hiring freeze.” Instead they will call it a “strategic hiring process.” That “process” is…
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June 3, 2025 To: Ukiah City Council and Staff: Mendocino County Farm Bureau is opposed to the City of Ukiah’s Annexation plan. The proposed plan would endanger farmland through urban sprawl, increase conflict between urban…
In a recent review of two novels by Native American author Tommy Orange, Francine Prose comments on what she calls “the land acknowledgment” phrase that is recited at many public meetings from coast-to-coast. In San…
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This is a slightly condensed version of an article originally printed in the Mendocino Beacon on March 7, 2013. On October 17, 1870, a fire broke out in Mendocino on the corner of Main and…
The Oscars. Been going down to Los Angeles for years, for the hotels, for the bars, for the stars and usually a Los Angeles I’ve never seen before. But this year, nah, just didn’t feel…
Like many of you who knew him, I was shocked to hear of the passing of John Pinches, and I’m sure for those of you who knew Johnny, memories of your connection to him came…