A federal grand jury is demanding information about Mendocino County’s 9.31 medical marijuana zip tie program, including names of participants and the amount of money Mendocino County made from it. Local officials remain unclear as to the motivations behind issuing the subpoena. “Obviously we don’t want to turn over any info on anyone that...
Who gets the most environmental money in Mendocino County? State Parks? The Sierra Club? No way. The Campbell Timber Company is our pick for the greatest taker of environmental funds in Mendocino County. The global logging firm also richly enjoys its position at the front of the trough of local public grant and land...
Mendocino County Sheriff Captain Randy Johnson is under investigation following a federal raid on his father’s property, where an estimated 400-500 marijuana plants were confiscated. Johnson owns property next to his fathers. During harvest, it must be hard to not notice the skunky aroma 500 marijuana plants exhude. Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman referred...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Comedian and presidential candidate, Roseanne Barr campaigned on a pro cannabis platform at Oaksterdam University in Oakland, Ca, the state’s premier cannabis college. Her fiery, 8 minute speech touched social commentary and tragic comedy about life in America, and focused on the war on drugs. Barr,...
Voters in Mendoicno County will decide whether or not corporations can have the same constitutional rights as humans this November. After gathering enough signatures from voters, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously July 24, 2012 to approve placing Measure F on the ballot. If passed, Measure F-The Citizens Advisory to End Corporate...
New Group to Run Mendocino Recreation and Community Center The Mendocino Recreation Center has a new lease holder. “We’re excited and delighted to have the opportunity to create a community center run by our community” says Elaine Wing Hillesland, President of the Community Center of Mendocino, a new non-profit formed to run the village’s...
Plan would have put up to 680 wave energy devices off Mendocino’s Coast By David Gurney www.noyonews.net Another plan to harness power from Mendocino’s wild coast line has failed. GreenWave Energy Solutions, LLC was denied a preliminary permit for the proposed “Green Wave Mendocino Wave Park Project” for failing to work “in good faith”...
Mendocino County’s lead legal counsel resigned after a sheriff’s deputy found 3-4 grams of marijuana and an unpermitted pistol in his car last month. “His license plate light was out and he was going about 10 miles per hour over the limit,” Sheriff Deputy Kurt Smallcomb told The Independent. Doug Losak was pulled over...
Deputy District Attorney, Sergio Fuentes is the 2nd county employee to step down from his job due to a marijuana-related incident with law enforcement. As The Independent reported in May 2012, Fuentes was relieved of his duties pending an investigation into marijuana cultivation at a house he shared with his mother. Authorities allege they...
Grand Jury Critical of City’s Garbage Contract. The City of Ukiah signed off on a new garbage contract that is more beneficial to the contractor than for the city and its people. That’s the conclusion reached by the Mendocino County Grand Jury in their recently published inquiry. Councilmember Phil Baldwin was the...
