Short answer: Yes. In Mendocino County, we’ve come to expect empty rhetoric from political candidates, from school boards to Congress. The would-be leadership talks about goals and visions and we-shoulds and we-musts and we-need-tos —…
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It was disappointing to read that recently declared Third District Supervisor Candidate Buffey Bourasa of Willits has no agenda or plan behind her candidacy. She told the Mendocino Voice: “Change has to come from the…
What began as an ambitious vision to bridge the digital divide and invigorate Fort Bragg’s economy with a municipal fiber-optic broadband network is becoming a morass of construction challenges and public scrutiny. Sarah McCormick, the…
Property taxes collected by the County are the primary funding source for schools, special districts and the County. The majority of the County’s share of property taxes goes to law enforcement. When a core function…
A week before Christmas, interim City Manager Robert Richardson called an all-hands meeting of city employees. “I don’t want to sugarcoat this,” Richardson told them. “There are those of us who will not be here…
Cost of handling homelessness, drug-addiction and street-level crime is rising faster than revenues. Addressing the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, a panel of county public safety leaders said the challenges they face are increasingly driven…
In Elise Cox’s Mendolocal.news report about a Board of Supervisors discussion of Mendocino County’s CORE (Community Outreach Response & Engagement) program last Wednesday, District Attorney David Eyster is quoted telling the Supervisors that Proposition 36…
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…
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…