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Posts published in July 2024

Mental Health & County Finances

In the past couple of weeks I’ve written columns dealing with the county’s (and the state’s) 50 years of failed mental health practices, programs, and policies. I’ve also shared with you my opinions and analysis…

Me & The Yips

Many seasons ago I was dragged into service by a softball team I’d never heard of to play a position I’d never played. It went poorly. For the second time in my life I was…

Great Redwood Trail Ad Airs On NBC

California taxpayers probably paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a slick half-hour ad on NBC Bay Area Sunday night. It was quite the propaganda coup, although we doubt many people actually watch “OpenRoads with…

Teenage Wasteland

I was midway into my first cup of coffee one long-ago morning when my 16-year-old daughter plopped her one-gloved self (it was the height of Michael Jackson mania) down at the kitchen table and informed…

Is The New Mental Health Contract Rigged?

During the first year of his first term, Supervisor Ted Williams correctly pointed that Mental Health Services in Mendocino County should be competitively bid, not handed over to the Schraeders Anchor Health Management (aka Redwood…

Off the Record 7/27/2024

CALLING ALL CANDIDATES Candidate nominations are open for school, municipal and special district offices up for election in November. Registered voters in Mendocino County who are interested in running for any of the available seats…

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