MendoLocal.News just released an interactive voting guide. There's a score card that captures the positions of 8 candidates for the Fort Bragg City Council, and with just two clicks, you can hear the candidates talk about theire positions. Pretty nifty! https://www.mendolocal.news/voter-guide-fort-bragg-city-council-2026/
Financing the retrofit — which is mandated by the state — with bonds could increase the cost 150%, from $20 million to $30 million.
An ad hoc committee also investigated reports that seniors were getting evicted from their homes due to over zealous code enforcement and found the claims to unfounded.
Did you know Assembly member Chris Rogers sponsored a bill that neuters Citizen's United? Or that he supports a state bank over expensive bond funding?
https://www.mendolocal.news/what-fort-bragg-asked-chris-rogers/
Town hall tomorrow!
A major drug bust in idyllic Mendocino follows an apparent overdose.
Local news from all the sources — composting toilets, ADU amnesty, health care cuts take effect in Mendocino -- and more
Medi-Cal rolls have already started to shrink.
The council voted 4-0 — Council Member Lindy Peters absent — to send a packet to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Attorney General Rob Bonta's office that includes the letter, a 2018 council resolution opposing offshore drilling, digitized community petitions, and the city's 1996 Measure C ordinance.
The council required no specific noise mitigation, though Council Member Tess Albin-Smith said she would prefer a decibel-based standard to a location-based one; City Manager Isaac Whippy noted that a broader noise-ordinance report is pending before the Public Safety Committee.
Mendocino County's own lobbyist is lobbying against a bill supported by the county, a nonprofit that funds law enforcement in Mendocino and other counties, and residents remember 9/11.
Rural County Representatives of California is lobbying to keep management of Jackson Demonstration State Forest — pictured above – focused on maximum timber yield.
A Mendocino County judge has ordered loggers to stop felling trees included in two timber harvest plans in the upper South Fork Eel River watershed, siding for now with a citizens' group that says state regulators approved the logging without adequately weighing the harm to coho salmon in the streams below. But most of the timber has already been cut.
The first wolf has been spotted in Mendocino County. Probably not the first to visit, but the first confirmed siting.
"The board adopted the ordinance as
drafted. Supervisor John Haschak said additional findings related to
farmland and climate could be considered at the Oct. 6 hearing.
Williams also invited Mendocino Forest Products to participate in
developing the county's long-term data center regulations".
Trip to Reggae on the River Ends in Tragedy
Forty-year-old man from Willits found dead near Willits.
https://www.mendolocal.news/a-trip-to-reggae-on-the-river-ends-in-tragedy/
https://www.mendolocal.news/p/ferc-denys-evmwd-intervention
Observers say the SoCal district is unlikely to drop its bid for NorCal water rights.