THE ANNUAL RANCHERIA RESCUE, 2012. Usually it happens this way: A kayaker, or a group of them, underestimates the time it will take to schwoosh the rain-swollen Rancheria from Mountain View Road to Hendy Woods.…
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Biggest Boondoggle, Ongoing — The Willits Bypass has been allocated hundreds of millions of public dollars but will not only be built with no on and off ramp at Highway 20 to Fort Bragg, meaning…
Back on December 10th, the Mendocino Supervisors invited Mendocino Redwoods executives to discuss their Habitat Conservation Plan. The plan covers 80 years and would bind the government but not the company to its stipulations once…
THE NEW COUNTY COURTHOUSE is proceeding whether the rest of us want it or not, and few people apart from our cossetted cadre of judges, do want it. A new County Courthouse is not needed.…
THE WILDEST WEATHER in some time has been pounding the Northcoast, with Anderson Valley absorbing a dozen direct lightning strikes between Boonville and Philo with accompanying blasts of thunder Thursday night/Friday morning. We expected to…
Before the California Judicial Council was voted in by the state legislature, the local judge was a justice of the peace and was known to the people as a JP. He would be a local…
BREAK THROUGH LEAD SENTENCE by Derek Moore in the Press Democrat's Christmas Eve weather story: “After a break in the weather, rain is expected to return to the North Bay Christmas Day right around the…
ACCORDING TO State Controller Data for 2011 Mendocino County had 108 employees whose individual total compensation (base pay, benefits and overtime) exceeded $90k per year. The total cost of these 108 top paid people was…