Farm Bureau To Ukiah & Supervisors: Abandon The Annexation
June 3, 2025 To: Ukiah City Council and Staff: Mendocino County Farm Bureau is opposed to the City of Ukiah’s Annexation plan. The proposed plan would endanger farmland through urban sprawl, increase...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Thursday 6/5/2025
Sunny | Help Robert | Albion Headlands | Local Events | No Annexation | Tax Delinquents | Athlete Schat | Blue Envelope | FBPD Stats | Sako Radio | Native Talk | Sea Arches | Public Broadcasting |...
View ArticleAnnouncements 6/6/2025
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MENDOCINO HISTORY TALK: Anderson Valley Pomo Past, Present and Future Anderson Valley Pomo Past, Present and Future; and the work of the Anderson Valley Historical Society The...
View ArticleVacancy Olympics: Mendo Proposes A Chaotic ‘Strategic Hiring Process’ To...
According to an item buried deep in next Tuesday’s board agenda packet the county is no longer planning to institute a “hiring freeze.” Instead they will call it a “strategic hiring process.” That...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Friday 6/6/2025
Mostly Sunny | Ivan Busted | Tasered Dead | Replacement Bridge | Hospice Thrift | Local Events | Budget Optimist | Blues Band | Joint Meeting | Covelo Burn | Drying Grass | Shoe Repair | Brewing...
View ArticleReel Mendo
The Mendocino Film Festival hit its 18th anniversary this year, films were screened in both Mendocino Village and Fort Bragg between May 29th and June 1st. The program tells us that this festival...
View ArticleLife After The Potter Valley Project –‘The Water Will Not Be Cheap’ –‘All...
There are many unknowns regarding life after the Potter Valley Project, but one thing is certain: If diversions from the Eel River Watershed to the Russian River Watershed continue once the Pacific Gas...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Saturday 6/7/2025
WARMER temperatures inland this weekend. A slight chance of thunderstorms over the Klamath Mountains and the Yolla Bollas on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday afternoons. Windy afternoons return to NW...
View ArticleManning Up In The Burbs
The suburbs are a war zone. That was how the General saw things. He was my aunt’s father-in-law. I met him only a handful of times over the years, mostly at family celebrations, like my…
View ArticleLittle Big League
The New York Yankees are coming to Sacramento — more specifically to West Sacramento. It's like saying Picasso is coming to your drawing class. I'm born of New York Yankee blood, so to think that…
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Sunday 6/8/2025
WARMER temperatures inland this weekend. A slight chance of thunderstorms over the Klamath Mountains and the Yolla Bollas on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday afternoons. Windy afternoons return to NW...
View ArticleThe Case For Decommissioning
by Friends Of The Eel The Eel River dams will never produce hydropower again. The unreliable water supply they allow to the Russian River will fail as geology and physics proceed. Pacific Gas and...
View ArticleLetters 6/9/2025
The full justification for the Fort Bragg City Council putting off resolution of its lawsuit with Mendocino Railway in the courts, in order to negotiate a master development agreement for the Fort...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Monday 6/9/2025
ISOLATED thunderstorm threat for Trinity, Del Norte, and NE Mendocino County continues this afternoon into the evening. Warm temperatures continue today, however, a cooling trend will keep temperatures...
View ArticleTrump Sends Marines to L.A. on 4th Day of Immigration Protests
by Edgar Sandoval (The New York Times) The Trump administration is deploying a battalion of 700 Marines to Los Angeles to protect federal property and personnel, the United States Northern Command said...
View ArticleRenouncing Cherished Beliefs
There’s a fresh breeze in the air with mild gusts cleansing America of rot and decay from years of progressive ideology’s stranglehold on a civilized, well-governed republic. We shall survive. Our...
View ArticleOff the Record 6/10/2025
THE STORY about the sale of the Press Democrat to the predatory hedge fund which has already destroyed local papers here in oblivious Mendo, soft-pedals criticism of the paper's current owners, Darius...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Tuesday 6/10/2025
ISOLATED thunderstorm threat for Trinity, Del Norte, and NE Mendocino County continues Tuesday afternoon into the evening. Warm temperatures continue Tuesday, however, a cooling trend will keep...
View ArticleCoining Anti-Semitism
There was no such thing as “semitism” when Wilhelm Marr, a German journalist/political organizer, coined the term “antisemitism” to mean prejudice against Jews. When Marr founded “The Anti-Semitic...
View ArticlePolitics, Priorities And Pinches
It's impossible not to recognize the seemingly institutional dysfunction in the governing process whether it be at the local, state or federal level. Our elected representatives and their staffs far...
View ArticleMendocino County Today: Wednesday 6/11/2025
INTERIOR temperatures forecast to diminish each day through Friday. Coastal stratus coverage becoming less through the week with clear skies possible Friday afternoon. Stronger winds are to be expected...
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