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Off the Record 2/16/2026

DA HAS ‘GREAT CONCERNS’ ABOUT THE RELOCATION OF HIS OFFICES TO ACCOMMODATE THE NEW COURTHOUSE At the Tuesday, February 3, 2026 Board of Supervisors meeting District Attorney David Eyster warned the Board about looming major…

Off the Record 2/7/2026

FLASHBACKS IN THE DELUGE of unhappy news this week was another airliner crash in Indonesia. The plane was flying from Jakarta to the Borneo city of Pontianak. Pontianak! In the year of living dangerously, 1965,…

Off the Record 2/3/2026

POLL WORKERS NEEDED ON THE COAST To Registered Voters on the Mendocino County Coast: The Mendocino County Elections Office is looking to add a few “Election Day Workers” to our Polling Place Teams throughout the…

Off the Record 1/23/2026

THE ANNUAL hypocrisy defaming the memory of Martin Luther King kicks in Monday, an orgy of media self-congratulation on the reverence Americans now have, thanks to King, for non-violent political progress when in living fact…

Off the Record 1/20/2026

ADD LOOK ALIKES: MENDO STICKS WITH ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ MENDOCINO CO., 1/8/26 — After months of debate, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved using the term “climate change” in a county document…

Off the Record 1/14/2026

THE NIGHT OF THE APOCALYPSE (from the Archive, January 1, 2000) by Bruce Anderson I set out from Haight Street for a night’s walkabout anticipating end-of-the-world spectacles. It was New Year’s Eve, end of an…

Off the Record 1/6/2026

ERIC HART, Willits, has announced he will run for the Mendocino County District 3 supervisor seat. https://mendovoice.com/2025/12/eric-hart-enters-race-for-mendocino-county-district-3-supervisor-seat/ ARTHUR JUHL (Gualala): I ran for Supervisor but I was not a Democrat. If you are you have…

Off the Record 12/31/2025

LISTENING to a recent KPFA fundraising pitch has convinced me to subscribe. I listen to it a lot down here in Marin and think the good stuff on the station outweighs the crackpots, so cracked…

Off the Record 12/23/2025

KATHERINE ‘KIT’ ELLIOTT TO RETURN AS MENDOCINO COUNTY COUNSEL, but as a “contractor” for six months. After that…? Elliott will be paid $31,666 per month, for a total contract value of $190k, or 960 hours…

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