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Mendocino County's own Sacramento lobbying association is urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto a bill overhauling California's demonstration forests — a bill the county's Board of Supervisors formally voted to support.
The annual Paul Bunyan Days Parade capped a long weekend of festivities: from a pie sale to a a trike race and logging show.
Assembly Bill 2494 would empower the Natural Resources Agency to enter into co-management agreements with California Native American tribes and "to make good faith efforts to collaboratively develop" them.
California would overhaul how it manages — and logs — its 14 demonstration state forests, including Mendocino County's Jackson Demonstration State Forest, under a bill that cleared the Legislature on Aug. 27 and now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk for approval or veto.
The Fort Bragg City Council moved nine zoning ordinances through first reading on Aug. 24, a rewrite that reaches into both residential neighborhoods and the city's commercial districts.
Fort Bragg's new prohousing designation could make the city more competitive for state and federal funds for housing.
A coastal zoning code overhaul, a $35 million wastewater infrastructure plan, and opposition to offshore oil drilling filled a meeting that ran until 9 p.m.
The two-page letter was written to end a lawsuit. But its most important passage concerns the contaminated water body at the center of the town's fight over its coastline, and what the city told the company it would, and would not, ask the state to do about it.
MCC is expanding into a new business while reporting a significant deficit. Profitability has declined steadily from 2020, when the clinic reported a surplus of $1.1 million. Last year, the clinic reported a loss of $1.3 million.
