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Posts published in June 2018

Letters (June 6, 2018)

I am highly concerned regarding the direction the Measure B committee is taking. I was asked last year to support Measure B. I was told the process would start with identifying what services are needed and then move on to what type of facility to build.

Coast Hospital Media Crackdown

Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) held a Board of Directors meeting on the last day of May. The agenda contained some of the usual, such as a closed session item about the federal lawsuit Hardin…

The Fate of Juvenile Hall

In late March of this year, it suddenly dawned on County CEO Carmel Angelo that Juvenile Hall was badly overbudget. Her initial reaction was to simply tell the Probation Department that she was slashing the…

Opiates

Beginning in the 1980s but gathering steam in the mid-to-late 1990s, American doctors turned millions of their chronic pain-suffering patients into opiate dependents. There was nothing ill-intended or illegal about it; pain relief had become…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Early Returns;
Little Dog;
Dogwood II;
Urchin Explosion;
Mendo Life;
Stoner Robot;
Reasonable Regulation;
Ed Notes;
Water Storage;
Offshore Ban;
Bank Robber;
Yesterday's Catch;
Simplify;
Play Calling;
Big Salty;
Dow Retires

Yorkville Flea Market

[Jul 7] The Yorkville Market will be sponsoring a Yorkville Flea Market this Saturday from 10 to 4pm. Yorkville residents will be banding together for a treasures, trash and handmade art extravaganza. Owner Lisa Walsh that…

Coke Machine Bandito Rides Again

Joseph Wayne Mork, a face perennially in the booking logs, made fresh and urgent news over a year ago when he and his lame lookout, Frank Freitas, were brought up on charges of ripping off…

Back In The World

Time travel has become a familiar enough subject to us by way of innumerable fictional treatments that we're all pretty conversant with the (contrived) ins and outs of it, the various scientific gymnastics and logical…

Off the Record (June 6, 2018)

MORE THAN ONE 5th District liberal was startled to hear a commercial radio advertisement for candidate Roderick read by retiring Supervisor, Dan Hamburg, the ad paid for by inland businessman, Ross Liberty.

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