In a sharp escalation of a running political battle between two elected Mendocino County officials, a felony criminal charge of misappropriation of public funds was filed Friday against County Auditor Chamise Cubbison by District Attorney…
Posts published in October 2023
At the tender age of 19 I boarded an Athens-bound train at the Gare du Nord station in Paris. I was on a train because my mother was appalled that I had been thumbing my…
In a stunning move Tuesday, Mendocino County supervisors suspended embattled Auditor Chamise Cubbison without pay although the elected county official has yet to have a chance to enter an expected not guilty plea to a…
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One of the panel discussions at the 24th World Petroleum Congress in Calgary last week was on “Social Responsibility: Earning a Licence to Operate.” “I get challenged by my children and grandchildren,” the executive secretary…
Book Review of ‘Hell With The Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War,’ by Arthur Quinn, Faber and Faber, 200pp, 1997. California’s last and perhaps most well known Indian war was fought in Modoc…
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Most folks know that for months, I’ve called for the County to stop talking about the County’s fiscal crisis and start doing something, get to the bottom of the root cause(s), and then take decisive…
October 3, 2023 Oh Dear Diary: Whatever shall I do? If he doesn’t stop humming “Row Row Row Your Boat” I’m going to double the Thorazine starting in 10 minutes. (I can do that because…