Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts published in “News”

Health Mission At Mission Bay

San Francisco here I come, right back where I started from… Literally true for me. I landed as a two-year-old on the run from Pearl Harbor in 1941, first stop the Hawaiian evacuation center at…

Mendo’s New ‘Budget Deficit Plan’

ITEM 4c on this Tuesday’s Supervisors Agenda was: “Discussion and Possible Action Including Approval of Presentation of a Budget Deficit Plan for Fiscal Year (FY) 23/24 and 24/25 Focusing on Revenue Management, Expense Management, and…

Humboldt County Measure A

The way the hysterically freaking-out opponents of Humboldt County’s Measure A describe it, this is a big moment, and a turning point for the county, but maybe it’s just a “nothing burger,” and in two…

Yet Another Palace Hotel Memory

The Palace Hotel is in the news, but when isn’t it? The proud old gal was built in the 1880s and for 100 years was the cornerstone, landmark and the rock solid core of downtown…

The Dangers of Ozempic/Wegovy

It seems like only yesterday that Gina Kolata of the New York Times was cheerleading without restraint for Ozempic/Wegovy. (It’s the same drug, based on a hormone that acts on insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.)…

The High Cost Of Ending The Eel River Diversion

Previously, I wrote ‘A Tale of Two Rivers in Mendocino County: Where the Eel and Russian Rivers Meet,’ as the beginning of what would be a series of articles that took the time to focus…

State Oversight Agency: Palace Demolition Not Necessary

Senior staff at a state agency designated to oversee possible contamination studies at the Palace Hotel site are ruling out any need for demolition to do investigative work at the downtown Ukiah site. The declaration…

County Notes: PHF News

At the last Measure B Committee meeting in December Behavioral Health Director Dr. Jenine Miller told the committee that the County now expects to issue a Request for Proposals for construction of the 16-bed Psychiatric…

PG&E Drops Diversion Options

Mendocino County officials said they will continue working on options for maintaining water diversions between the Eel and Russian rivers that were created more than 100 years ago for the Potter Valley Project, despite the…

-