Government

Board of Supervisors Approves Hiring Process for District Attorney Opening

| 10:23 AM

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The County Board of Supervisors approved the process to fill the District Attorney vacancy at its meeting today. Current DA Bonnie Dumanis recently announced her retirement, which is effective July 7. The job is an elected post, but since Dumanis is retiring before her term would have ended in January 2019, the Board of Supervisors […]

Environment

The Man to Bug About Bugs

| 4:16 PM

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Even if you’ve never met Chris Conlan, you still might recognize him. That’s because the supervising vector ecologist has been the County’s most visible “bug and critter guy,” for the last 14 ½ years, doing hundreds of media interviews and appearing on your TV and in your newspapers. And it all started with a butterfly net.