(First draft of a Note to the state Auditor.) Mendocino County has never done a very good job of keeping track of its “special funds.” Just a casual glance at the County’s last two budget…
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Former San Francisco Mayor, from 1996 to 2004, and the speaker of the California State Assembly from 1980 to 2005, Willie Brown set out his own record at the Mechanics Institute Library and Chess Center…
Last week we completed several investigations into illegal marijuana cultivations in the Round Valley area. I received a lot of telephone calls regarding these investigations. Some folks were complaining while others were extremely thankful. I…
Whatever shall we do with Dave Eyster? We can shake our fists and yell at him but we can’t eat him. We can write mean letters to editors but we can’t chase him around the…
Last weekend two great fairs presented themselves simultaneously. For true fair lovers this was indeed an embarrassment of riches. The trouble was that one full day of total fair immersion just about does you in…
In the past month I’ve written a couple of pieces on the homeless dilemma looking at what I call the Unholy Trinity, those inextricably intertwined maladies of homelessness, mental health afflictions, and substance abuse. We…
The other major item on Tuesday’s agenda — after the Board gave themselves a big raise, connected future raises to their own handouts to subordinates, and ignored critical public comment as usual — was another…
An improperly disposed of battery likely sparked the fire that destroyed a large building at the Ukiah Transfer Station early this month, the Ukiah Valley Fire Authority reported. So many bales of recyclables, some of…
It just kept rolling along, painting always unpredictable, always alluring patterns on its surface, caressing the embankment, gracefully sliding through the shadows under bridges, not giving a French fig about the humongous fascist-inspired spectacle rampaging…