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County Agenda Notes: Your Tax-Funded Supervisors At Work

Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting has only two non-routine items: a presentation from the Probation Department about the new Pretrial Release program, and a discussion of a possible code change entitled “Guidelines for Development of…

Rivals At The San Francisco DA’s Office

A few weeks ago a NY Times reporter named Matt Flegenheimer asked me to reminisce about being District Attorney Terence Hallinan’s press secretary in the year 2000, when Kamala Harris and Kimberly Guilfoyle were both…

Ukiah Valley Creeks Cleaned Of Trash, Encampments Saturday

Dozens of truckloads full of garbage were cleaned from multiple creek beds in the Ukiah Valley Saturday during the annual Russian River Cleanup. Much of the efforts were organized by the Mendocino County Resource Conservation…

Braught’s Geiger’s Market Of Hopland Defaults On County Loan

At Tuesday’s, September 24 meeting, the Board of Supervisors received a report from staffer Kelly Hansen, of the County Executive Office Grants Unit on the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program’s Covid-19 grant “closure.” The…

How The Democrats Captured The Northcoast, Forever

A JAUNDICED EYE looks back: In the pivotal year of 1967, the Summer of Love having gone to speed, STDs, Nixon, and the endless war on Vietnam, hippies and hip-symps headed north, through the rainbow…

Israel Begins Ground Operations in Southern Lebanon

Israeli troops crossed the border after a prolonged bombing campaign aimed at killing many of Hezbollah’s top leaders and destroying some of its weapons. The Israeli military announced early Tuesday that its troops had begun…

Mendocino Fair & Apple Show 2024

Arriving at the 2024 Boonville Fair last Friday, the program book outlined most of the things that would happen or be available for viewing. Curious people with wide ranging interests can easily keep themselves occupied…

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