On January 13 the media focused on the President giving the finger to a worker in Detroit who called him "a pedophile protector." Trump's response became the story, not the fact that Jeffrey Epstein's ghost…
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Report from 1st District Supervisor Madeline Cline Supervisor Cline reported on the findings of the state audit of Mendocino County, released on December 18. There were three main items to focus on: 1) the budget…
On January 13, Program Coordinator Katherine Flink presented an online overview of the School of Adaptive Agriculture’s 2026 Farm School Program. The Farm School Program is located on the 5,000 acre historic Ridgewood Ranch in…
Near the end of Wednesday’s Board workshop Fifth District Supervisor Ted Williams asked his colleagues what they were going to do about the District Attorney‘s broiler dinners which the state auditor declared were “prohibited“ because…
Mendo has a long, well-documented history of what we loosely refer to as “The Whereas,” those empty claims of “accomplishments” that are auto-generated when senior officials depart county employment. Usually, The Whereases are simply a…
State Auditor no fan of hiring freeze and resignation incentives for budget balancing… Instead of aggressively pursuing over $30.5 million in delinquent taxes, Mendo has chosen to address its “structural deficit” by not filling random…
For the first time since the CEO started generating a “Year-To-Date Budget Report-General Fund” a few months ago, the report is listed as a Board agenda topic. Previously it has been buried several layers deep…
Apologies: today's MCT is going to be late this morning. In the meantime, here's a delightful book review written by Edward Said in 1989 wherein he singes the Mustache of Understanding… THE ORIENTALIST EXPRESS: Thomas…
Matthew LaFever’s $10,000 bond was exonerated on Monday by Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Keith Faulder, two months after LaFever was arrested by the Ukiah Police Department on suspicion of misdemeanor child annoyance or molestation…