Mark Twain once said “In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” Twain’s wisdom received a stunning confirmation last week on March 10th, 2022 with the display…
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LAST TUESDAY’S SUPERVISORS MEETING featuring the Board’s final farewell to retiring CEO Carmel Angelo signaled what sounds a lot like a return to a version of the old CAO Tom Mitchell era, Mitchell, long-time observers…
PUTIN'S WAR ON UKRAINE is, by itself, a major crime and, potentially, this time next year we could be roasting squirrels over open pit fires in the hills of Mendocino County if Putin decides to…
JULIA ACKER KROG has been appointed Director of Planning and Building Services. On March 3, 2022, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Carmel Angelo appointed Julia Krog as Director of the Department of Planning and Building Services,…
As COVID cases continue to decline in the US, while rising in some other areas in the world, a lot of attention is being placed on COVID vaccine boosters. Should we be doing a second…
Sally Schmitt, who with her husband, Don, opened the French Laundry, the now famous restaurant in the Napa Valley of California, in 1978, and in doing so helped solidify the valley as a food-and-wine destination…
What Happened to the Public Safety Advisory Committee? Remember all the hullabaloo in 2020 and 2021 in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder and the Ukiah PD's awkward encounter with the naked tweaker in…
Ukiah Valley residents have been advised to be ‘very careful’ when burning excess vegetation. An escaped burn pile Monday morning showed just how dry much of the vegetation is in the Ukiah Valley, where local…
IN A LOT OF WAYS, Mendocino County is like Catherine the Great’s Potemkin Villages, fake-front villages erected on her majesty’s path whenever she went on the road, the idea being to assure Her Greatness that…