Elise Cox is the founding editor of MendoLocal.News. She was previously news director at Mendocino County Public Broadcasting and has been part of the editorial team at the San Jose Mercury News and U.S. News & World Report.
County code enforcement said 2 out of every 5 reports of code violations are not getting addressed due to staffing, and reports of seniors getting forced from their homes due to code violations proved unfounded.
We reviewed a decade of campaign finance reports after Gov. Newsom vetoed AB 2494. Timber interests gave about $235,000; tribal & environmental backers gave almost nothing.
Fort Bragg took the spotlight this week: regulators called for a rewrite of the mill site cleanup plan, the CV Starr solar array remained offline, and a temporary raw water line failed when a coupling broke.
State toxics regulators have told Mendocino Railway to rewrite its cleanup plan for the mill site's contaminated ponds, and to stop calling the fence around the largest pond effective until it is replaced.
The new solar array at the C.V. Starr Recreation Center in Fort Bragg has yet to produce an power despite being finished months ago. This story asked why.
Fort Bragg narrowly averted a new threat to its water supply after a coupling on a temporary line failed about two hours after it was put into service Sept. 26.
Workers are shortening the new wooden fence along Highway 1 in Fort Bragg, cutting down the boards one at a time, and the city says the work should be done by Friday.
At the same meeting that the Willits City Council voted to raise water and wastewater rate, it learned the city has received a $1.8 million CDBG for a new business loan program.
A Sunday Q&A with Assembly Member Chris Rogers covered everything from housing and health care to biomass innovation centers, with info on key bills and the Prop. 1 housing bond.
