Dan Gjerde News Today

For the past two weeks, we’ve been discussing a series of events where Board Chair Maureen Mulheren attempted to justify violations of the Brown Act, California’s Open Meeting Law.I’ll provide the punch-line now: I believe the problem has been solved.I’m not going to re-plow recent ground other than to point out that Mulheren argued that […]

For the past two weeks, we’ve been discussing a series of events where Board Chair Maureen Mulheren attempted to justify violations of the Brown Act, California’s Open Meeting Law.I’ll provide the punch-line now: I believe the problem has been solved.I’m not going to re-plow recent ground other than to point out that Mulheren argued that […]

The Board of Supervisors agreed unanimously yesterday to reconsider their decision on an item formally designating Dr. Jenine Miller as the head of the combined Public and Behavioral Health departments. On May 7, the board narrowly voted to ask for a full review before creating the position. Some board members said their understanding was that the two departments had been integrated on a temporary basis, and that they had not been privy to detailed plans.

After over two hours of back and forth discussion in a packed and muggy Town Hall Monday, the City Council gave the management of Waste Management, Inc. 10 calendar days to modify a previous proposal for waste service in Fort Bragg, or surrender its city service to Solid Waste of Willits. From the podium, about […]

With Madeline Cline maintaining her substantial lead in the race for 1st District Mendocino County Supervisor once the results of the March 5 Election were finalized this week, the 26-year-old said she will spend the next several months building on the momentum and relationships she established during her campaign.

There are still more than 15,000 ballots to be processed in Mendocino County, local Elections officials reported Friday. In a press release posted to Facebook, Registrar of Voters Katrina Bartolomie reported the afternoon of March 8 that her office still had “14,733 Vote By Mail ballots to process, and 588 Conditional Provisional/Provisional ballots to review and process.” As for the outstanding ballots remaining in the “hot contests,” Bartolomie said there are 3,155 ball...

There are still more than 15,000 ballots to be processed in Mendocino County, local Elections officials reported Friday. In a press release posted to Facebook, Registrar of Voters Katrina Bartolomie reported the afternoon of March 8 that her office still had “14,733 Vote By Mail ballots to process, and 588 Conditional Provisional/Provisional ballots to review […]

There are still more than 15,000 ballots to be processed in Mendocino County, local Elections officials reported Friday. In a press release posted to Facebook, Registrar of Voters Katrina Bartolomie reported the afternoon of March 8 that her office still had “14,733 Vote By Mail ballots to process, and 588 Conditional Provisional/Provisional ballots to review […]

There are still more than 15,000 ballots to be processed in Mendocino County, local Elections officials reported Friday. In a press release posted to Facebook, Registrar of Voters Katrina Bartolomie reported the afternoon of March 8 that her office still had “14,733 Vote By Mail ballots to process, and 588 Conditional Provisional/Provisional ballots to review […]

It’s frustrating when electricity rates are rising and you don’t understand your utility bill.  With cold weather here, now is a good time to take a moment to examine it.