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Off the Record 7/8/2025

MENTAL HEALTH CONSERVATORSHIPS by Mark Scaramella At last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting after the big Annexation Cancellation agenda item, there was a discussion of the County’s “C.O.R.E.” (Community Outreach Response & Engagement) program in…

Off the Record 7/1/2025

ELISE COX (KZYX News): At the Ukiah Town Hall on annexation Thursday night, Ukiah Deputy City Manager Shannon Riley laid out some unique ground rules — there were to be no statements or comments, only…

Off the Record 6/24/2025

A READER WRITES: On County functioning: 100% they will hire “managers” with a proper degree to hold the space and bill for services. The managers are not trained, nor mentored because there are No Mentors…

Off the Record 6/17/2025

SURPRISE! Auditor-Controller/Treasurer Tax Collector Chamise Cubbison told the Supervisors a few weeks ago that tax delinquency and tax default property sales were still a long way off because of the bureaucrat hurdles involved. But on…

Off the Record 6/10/2025

THE STORY about the sale of the Press Democrat to the predatory hedge fund which has already destroyed local papers here in oblivious Mendo, soft-pedals criticism of the paper's current owners, Darius Anderson and former…

Off The Record 6/3/2025

SHERIFF KENDALL ON BLACK MARKET MARIJUANA: (Statement to Supervisors, Tuesday, May 22, 2025) If anybody has read the news lately they’d know that we had a lot of homicides last week. A lot of people…

Off the Record 5/26/2025

JIM SHIELDS: I have some very sad news. My good friend John Pinches has just passed away. Johnny had been hospitalized for the past week. The family is requesting a bit of time to deal…

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