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Misplaced Priorities, Muddled Mismanagement

And a $3,000 Comfort Support Dog For The DA’s Victim Witness Office. Agenda item 4b for next Tuesday’s Supervisors meeting is entitled: “Discussion and Possible Action Including Approval or Denial of Requests from Department Heads…

Mendocino County Today: Thursday 9/25/2025

Warm | Richard Gardiner | Richard Found | Community Priorities | Open-Carry Drinks | CEO Report | Kai Poma | Coop Trouble | Disaster Preparedness | Drum Circle | AVFD 70th | Public Survey | Meeks Celebration | Yesterday's Catch | September Rain | Green Apple | Cricket Friendly | Cut Rates | Giant Cockroaches | Right-Wing Hypocrisy | Vindictive Prosecution | Welcome Democrats | Partisan Rhetoric | Over With | Best Friends | Warming Up | Hippie Days | Giants Win | Wrigley Field | Homelessness Dropping | Adhering | Hearings Postponed | Apostrophes | Forest Service | Climate Promises | Backyard Burial | Gender Vote | Cookie Monster | September 1939 | Greek Resistance | Lead Stories | Patriot Worthy | Gotta Wonder | Dallas Shooting | NYC 1955 | Shared Wall | Stormy Sky

Major Crisis In Family And Children’s Services

What started out during public expression at last Tuesday’s Board meeting as a seemingly innocuous staff request to delay a planned organizational restructuring, has turned out to be a major crisis in Mendocino County’s Family…

Housing As A Human Right Vs. Voting To Punish Homelessness

On September 17, 2025, the Ukiah City Council voted unanimously to amend Ukiah’s anti-camping ordinance. The changes were presented by City Assistant Attorney Darcy Vaughn and Police Chief Tom Corning, who insisted the ordinance was…

Mendocino County Today: Wednesday 9/24/2025

Cooling | FFA Leadership | Scary Road | Devin Visits | Whippets Progress | Elsie Allen | Strategic Firing | New Judge | Hansen PA | Local Events | Boontworks Meeting | Gerrymander Map | Shields Memorial | Pioneer Walk | Yesterday's Catch | Xpress 1997 | Kirk Implosion | Radical Don | Giants Lose | Oracle Dusk | Fall Boys | Fat Clubs | Appropriate F-Bombs | Riprap | Aha | Mind Prison | Minding Business | Never | Last Meal | Blocking ICE | Gorge | Recognize Berenson | Airport Motel | Fall | Lazy Autumn | Lead Stories | Not Nice | Hate Them | Gaza Contribution | Horrible Feeling

Assignment: Ukiah – Any Problem Can Be Made Worse

There are small but growing problems besetting the county’s Planning and Building Services (PBS) department, an agency that enforces rules and regulations around the county. What’s wrong? An (anonymous) troublemaker has been wallpapering the PBS…

From the Archive: Impressions, Boonville Fair [September 25, 1985]

Officially called the Mendocino County Fair, most of the effort is committed by Anderson Valley people. The Redwood Empire Fair, held annually in Ukiah, is more representative of the County, having moved from being merely…

Mendocino County Today: Tuesday 9/23/2025

Warm | Tomatillos | Audit Underway | Kirk Gathering | France Booked | Brent Twoomey | Local Events | No Decision | Oaken Sky | Yesterday's Catch | Salmon Opening | Big-Valley Cattlemen | Book Clubs | Hearing Postponed | MegaMillions Ten | Giants Lose | Modoc & Marin | Mycrow Brewery | Loud Commercials | Kinder Nap | Doctor Fenty | Do Nothing | Quake Mysteries | Mind Numbing | Tramp Steamer | Ave Maria | Milkman/Pieman | Kimmel Return | No Trespassing | Street Thugs | Catalog People | Miss Stein | Bop Bop | Yankee Doodle | Warning Signs | Lead Stories | You Are | Sick World | Covering Gaza | Handbaskets | Ode | Prince Palantir | Checking Price

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