A majority of Humboldt County’s Board of Supervisors supports a ballot initiative to limit early prison releases but capacity issues could interfere with the initiative’s goals. The backlash against propositions 47 and 57 and AB…
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The sensational factionalism at the Ukiah Gun Club finally arrived in court last week, and some of the more shocking and lurid aspects of the case seemed almost to fly out the window as the…
AN EXTORTIONATE threat from a young, homegrown lawyer to balkanize Fort Bragg to achieve ethnic electoral balance, inspired a nice bit of well-deserved satire by the much read Facebook page called MendocinoSportsPlus. Predictably, the reading…
1. Do you think the County’s mental health money is being effectively spent? (around $28 million at last estimate) In general, I’m not enthusiastic about outsourcing core government responsibilities. There are circumstances where private industry…
At the April 26th Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) Board of Directors meeting, the District's legal counsel was directed to draft a resolution that would remove Dr. Lucas Campos from his seat on the board.…
Willits is not happy with the apparent attempt to rush a Psychiatric Health Facility into their small town.
Several officials from the city of Willits, along with a number Willits residents, complained to the Measure B Advisory Committee last Wednesday that it seemed like Willits was being left out of plans to convert the old Howard Hospital into a 16- or 32-bed Psychiatric Health Facility (PHF).
The second week of the third trial for Caleb Silver ended in Silver’s conviction for the murder of Dennis Boardman. But the week started out with a very likely chance that this the third trial…
THIRD DISTRICT SUPE’S candidate John Pinches missed Saturday’s debate in the friendly hometown confines of Laytonville’s Harwood Hall because, en route, as the Eel River Canyon rancher swerved to avoid hitting an elk, he hit…
“I’m afraid that Napa is becoming the Valley of the Oligarchs. If it can happen here, where people are reasonably intelligent it can happen anywhere.” — St. Helena city councilman Geoff Ellsworth Where does one…