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Posts published in October 2018

Mendocino County Today: Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018

Blank Pleads;
KZYX Audit;
Ed Notes;
Quiz Night;
Little Dog;
Gang Sweep;
Giant Pumpkin;
Swamp Spray;
Foodshed News;
Yesterday's Catch;
Bowling Lease;
Fahrenheit 11/9;
Waffle Day;
Corporate America;
Janitor;
Hellfire Future;
Unjust Dominion;
Prop 6;
Saunter;
Caspar Curiosities;
Opioid Overdose

The First Stonewall

On a fine Fort Bragg autumn morning, the very day of the Mendocino Coast District Hospital Board of Directors candidates forum at the senior center, I swung by the hospital to ask for the budget.…

The Airship Mystery of 1896-97

William Held and Dr. Case, of Ukiah, were riding northbound in a buggy on an early December evening, destination Centerville in the Potter Valley district. Their horses shied as a light flared from the darkness.…

Our $225k Bargain Basement CEO

With Supervisor/Board Chair Dan Hamburg calling Mendocino County CEO Carmel Angelo “a bargain,” and Supervisor John McCowen saying she deserves a raise because she’s been underpaid for years and she’s got great contacts and she almost single-handedly got some money from the State for the post fire disaster over-excavation reimbursement of upwards of 100 burned out home-owners (which should have been caught a lot sooner if they’d listened to Lee Howard when he first pointed out what was happening, and was the absolute minimum she could do under the circumstances), the Board of Supervisors unanimously (Supervisor Carre Brown wasn’t in attendance but she certainly would have voted Yes too) approved CEO Carmel Angelo’s huge automatic pay raises over the next four years in four steps to $225,000 a year plus equivalently generous perks, followed by a comparably giant pension for the rest of her life.

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018

Election Notes;
Modern World;
Community Park;
Fallis Felonies;
Pencil Logic;
Benefit Dinner;
Snickers Rescue;
Albion Bridge;
Yesterday's Catch;
Hue 1968;
Brief Behavior;
New Rules;
Updated Edition;
Flithy Frisco;
Impartial Face;
Polarized Country;
Little Dog;
Indian Summer;
RV Rebuilding;
Grim Reaper;
Funkacillin Schedule

Off the Record (Oct. 10, 2018)

RANDOM OBSERVATIONS: What we need in this country is project czars. Remember the contractor guy hired to rebuild the LA freeway after the last big quake? The state told him to get it done, that…

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