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Off the Record (November 2, 2023)

A READER WRITES: I dread the new courthouse. All the preliminary designs I have seen vary from ugly to unremarkable to warehouse distribution center vibe. It will be a high security concrete bubble for our…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023

Wet Ahead | Pond Action | Suspicious Death | Litter Removal | Wrongful Terminations | Big Bunny | Water Projects | Jet Ski | Adventist Billing | Hopland Cemetery | Tannenbaum Permits | Shelter Impression | AV Foodbank | Homeless Headcount | 1950s Bar | Navarro Watershed | Gualala Lumbering | Headwaters Forest | Yesterday's Catch | AVHS Plate | Much Thought(s) | Watercolor Pumpkins | Niner Acquisition | Former Punk | Dedicated Mom | MeÌalanie Bourget | Dirty Wars | Quotidian Life | Unsuspecting | Gaza | What Aboot | Ukraine | Cotton Plantation | Halloween | Bison

County Supervisors Under Fire for Cubbison Ouster

Mendocino County Supervisor sat silent as they were chastised Tuesday for arbitrarily removing elected Auditor Chamise Cubbison from office without a hearing. Chris Andrian, a noted Sonoma County lawyer, ripped board members for denying Cubbison…

Fire, Aim, Ready

In a transparent attempt to cover their collective behinds, the Supervisors gave suspended Auditor-Controller Treasurer Tax Collector Chamise Cubbison a technical opportunity to respond to her suspension — after she was suspended. It was obvious…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday Oct. 31, 2023

Mild | Ravens | Reckless Driving | Muertos Altar | Football Playoff | Forest Health | Moon Shot | Contractor Meetup | Harvest Art | Resident Rights | Noyo Return | Ed Notes | Headstone | Amazing Mockel | Homeless Tip | Guitar Quartet | Oaky Testimonial | Joseph Blow | Benefit Dinner | Yesterday's Catch | SMART Fixes | Carson House | Oakland Crows | Timber Harvest | Rendering | Loathsome Joe | Noyo Theater | Grievance Artist | Niner Fan | Stop Wars | Ukraine | Depop | Gaza | True War | Probe Deeper | Earring Girl | NetanYahoo | Optimism | Jihad | Scary Treat | Biden Complicit | High Five | Ethnic Cleansing | Pumpkin Farmer | Natural Color | Moral Life | Blue Poppy

Families

We as families and individuals living with Serious Mental Illness bear all the hardship and struggle to gain support, treatment and our sanity within a system that fails us at every turn. There also resides…

Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin—a most extraordinary fellow, a one-man-band of virtue and a virtuoso, who was, quite literally among other things, and at all of these first rate—a novelist, essayist, musicologist, theologian, expert in animal husbandry,…

Mendocino County Today: Monday, Oct. 30, 2023

Brooktrails Deer | Dry & Mild | Volleyball Champs | Got Cleats? | Grange Events | Gualala River | Beardsley Clarifies | Al's Room | Brown Endorsement | Soaring | Ed Notes | Locals Night | Hazel Helm | Yesterday's Catch | Ocean Rescue | Noyo Sunset | Wahoo Divorce | 101 Burger | Niner Loss | Social Blunder | Pecker Hyoid | Zebra Wash | Carolina Twilight | Pumpkin Nightmare | Shooter Warnings | Assault Weapons | Primo Carnera | Just Solution | Wall Art | Campus Protests | Telemarketing Ambush | Ukraine | Wacky Humor | Census Taking | Floral Art | Good Deed | James Wright | Socialist Geese | Pissed Off | Sad Surprise | Devil Time | Ultimate Circle

Flushing The ‘Community Input’ Myth

We’re getting a good hard lesson in state politics as a new county courthouse is rammed down our throats by forces no one can name. Forget the happy talk about “community action” and “working together…

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