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Posts published in January 2024

More Cubbison Case Questions

A question raised by acting Auditor Sara Pierce in Mark Scaramella's recent “No Smoking Gun” piece goes to the heart of District Attorney David Eyster's attempt to criminally prosecute suspended Mendocino County Auditor Chamise Cubbison. …

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024

Navarro Point | Showers Fading | Baby Mila | Turkey Line | No Fireworks | Questionable Stropharia | Ed Notes | Foodbank Hours | Animal Control | Emily's Spillway | Orr Springs History | AVA Terroir | Carson Mansion | Old Age | Inflation Indicators | Gift Idea | Abortion Pill | 2023 Sez | Kenneth Patchen | Malden Reads | Crazy Town | Israel Cannot | Woody Resolutions | Texting Help | Making Changes | 2024

County Notes: The Cubbison Papers, No Smoking Gun

But maybe some gunshot residue… We submitted our Public Records Act request for information related to the suspension of former Auditor-Controller/Treasurer-Tax Collector Chamise Cubbison back on November 3, 2023 because there was speculation that Ms.…

New Year’s Resolutions, Lies & Excuses

Now’s the time of year we bore readers with New Year Resolutions, in which talent-free columnists promise to lose weight, learn a foreign language, volunteer at the library, join a health club, go vegan and…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024

Rainy Day | Pink Clouds | Rainfall Totals | Gray Clouds | Ed Notes | Laytonville Geiger's | AV Newsletter | Exit Date | Starbucks Skirmish | Free Meal | Spansule | High Noon | Camp Fun | 1938 Wedding | Yesterday's Catch | Scotia Ferry | Country Concept | Hip Replacement | S.A.D. | Electricity Explained | Something Big | Scariest Part | War Party | Arizona Mining | Perfect Offering | Dragon Kite

Counting Lumber Mills & Logging Railroads

With the local timber industry ever waning in Mendocino County it’s educational to look back and see what a role logging railroads and lumber mills once played in the local economy. Take logging railroads —…

San Francisco During The War [1949]

World War II hit Baghdad by the Bay like a ton of block busters. Overnight the self-contained, self-satisfied city whose population had stood absolutely still for a decade was transformed into a major Port of…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Jan. 1, 2024

Dry Day | Rainbow | Earthquakes | Ukiah Stabbing | Donna J | Valley Deaths | Boomer Jack | Mail Theft | Whitmore Building | Creative Writing | MCHCD Credibility | Toast | Mendo Beavers | Westport Landing | Ed Notes | Deathness | CSD Meeting | 2024 | Historic Equipment | Yesterday's Catch | Bar Joke | Computer Tip | PG&E Rates | Miss Beatniks | Roosevelt Search | Water Graphed | Wine Troubleshooting | Not Intelligent | Top Seed | Carlisle Indians | Pointless | Order/Species | Nature-Loving Advisory | Hillbilly Scientology | Hafez Sez | Spinning Fast | 55 Party | Resolutions | Troubles

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