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Selling Newspapers, Springing Felons

As a kid I delivered newspapers (Cleveland News, Cleveland Press) and when I got older I worked 80-hour weeks in a ketchup factory. I spent college summers at a small shop that fabricated big ticket…

County Notes: Is Potter Valley About To ‘Go Dry’?

Lame duck 72-year old Supervisor Glenn McGourty doesn’t get excited about much these days. In fact, the only subject that still energizes him is water for grapes. So we were not surprised that he sounded…

Off the Record (May 17, 2023)

ONE ENCOURAGING national development is the push-back against the reverse bigotry launched by the pseudo-left. Veteran actor Richard Dreyfuss didn’t mince words the other day when he was asked about diversity rules for movies to…

ERRP: A Positive Force In Our Community

At back-to-back meetings last week (April 26 and April 27), the Laytonville Area Municipal Advisory Council (LAMAC) and the Laytonville County Water District (LCWD) Board, both approved supporting the Eel River Recovery Project (ERRP) in…

Notes On The AV Wildflower Show 2023

Last year I wrote a report on the 2022 Wildflower Show with this opening paragraph: “If there is one thing that stands out when looking at a large collection of wildflower specimens it is their…

Trevor Mockel For First District Supervisor (Never)

(The annotated candidate) This guy is endorsed by all of the sitting supervisors and by retiring supervisors, McGourty and Gjerde. You could say, given the functioning of the supervisors, it's a reverse endorsement, a great…

Coast Hospital Board Audit Failures

This is a tale of audit failures. Bear with it, we have to slog through some technical data, but, I promise, there will be a plot twist and punch lines. In July 2020, the firm…

County Notes: Carmel Angelo’s Biggest Time Bomb

Mendocino County bought the abandoned nursing home on Whitmore Lane south of Ukiah in 2020 using federal covid money in the early stages of the pandemic to use as a quarantine building for people who…

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