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Budget Bungling 2.0

As expected given the dearth of information requested by the Board and/or provided by staff last week, Tuesday’s budget discussion was another disorganized, muddled mess. In the end we couldn’t even figure out what the…

Diocese Taking Bids On Historic Hopland Church

The Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa is accepting bids for the landmark St. Francis Church in Hopland and surrounding mission property, according to an announcement by church officials this week. The possible purchase of the…

Budget Balancing By The Numbers

At the Tuesday, March 25, Board of Supervisors meeting, Board Chair John Haschak casually mentioned that the County’s General Fund budget deficit might be as high as $28 million, adding, “but maybe that’s, um, closer…

Divisive Water Politics

Gather around, time to spend a quick minute looking at a water resource issue that affects you whether you know it or not. It’s a tortuously convoluted hot mess. It, of course, is the 120-year-old…

Short-Term Rentals

Mendocino County is hosting the first of five “stakeholder meetings to discuss current and future policies on short-term rentals and their impacts to local communities, real estate, and tourism” on Wednesday in Fort Bragg. The…

San Francisco’s Potent Protest, April 5, 2025

They did not come to the Civic Center in San Francisco on April 5, 2025 to speak truth to power. They know that power doesn’t listen to people, not the powerful but vulnerable demigods in…

The Protest at the Israel Philharmonic Concert

We all walked down the sidewalk, shoulders tucked and hurriedly leaning forward to avoid being touched and spit on by the angry racists jeering at people on their way to the doors. Parading effigies and…

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