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Backdoor Maneuvers

ON JULY 11 we wrote about a very fishy Consent Calendar Item which had its origins going back to March:  Item 4ab). “Adoption of Resolution Authorizing a Title Change and Salary Revision of General Services…

Lake Oroville Powerplant Closed

On August 5, California DWR State Water Project operations managers took the Hyatt Powerplant at Lake Oroville offline as the lake dropped to its lowest-ever recorded water level. The current water level is only 641.39…

Bell Fire: Forward Spread Stopped

The 50-acre fire, which started today at noon, five miles east of Leggett at Bell Springs Road and Foster Creek Road, has been stopped according to the CalFire Mendocino Unit (5:30pm). Evacuation Orders have been…

The Only Way to End the Pandemic

The more the Covid-19 virus spreads, the more it will mutate, producing variant strains. Inevitably, some of those variants will totally elude the existing vaccines. No wall, no travel bans, no isolationist policies will keep…

Wine People vs. Us

Back in 2009, when the State Water Board told Russian River Grape Growers — of which 1st District Supervisor Glenn McGourty is one — that they would have to prepare their own frost protection water…

Can Fort Bragg Avoid Major Water Cuts?

The Fort Bragg City Council had a full plate set for its meeting Monday night: an appeal (likely to be continued to a later session) on the Planning Commission's denial of what would be the…

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