There’s an interesting struggle playing out within the Mendocino Coast Health Care District Board of Directors around the subject of the Hospice Thrift Store in Fort Bragg. As part of the affiliation with Adventist Health…
Posts published by “Malcolm Macdonald”
In the next year to year and a half, residents of the Mendocino Coast Health Care District (MCHCD) will face a $40 - $60 million tax question. It is likely that by this time in…
Transparency is a term elected officials like to bandy in order to brag about action or information that is inherently the right of the public to know in the first place. In a July 2024…
In 1986 California voters supported Proposition 49 by a 56% to 44% margin. Both the state senate and assembly had approved the idea behind the proposition by more than a two-thirds majority. Prop 49 amended…
The Mendocino Coast Health Care District (MCHCD) held a special board of directors meeting on October 1st. After roll call Chair Paul Garza read the following statement, “On September 30, 2024 the Mendocino Coast Health…
Weekend before last, as I made my way between Mendocino and Fort Bragg, it seemed like every encounter with a local included a question or comment about the Oncology Department at Adventist Health Mendocino Coast…
Recent reporting on 1st District Supervisor Glenn McGourty's residence prompts a multiple pronged response. The “concerned citizen” letter filed regarding McGourty's residence, while giving some precise details, demonstrates a lack of understanding about the Mendocino…
Before his birth, Ed Sniece's mother galloped her steed down the cinder traces of the old railroad bed parallel to the river. Her favorite bonnet usually dislodged no farther west than the Macdonald ranch. Like…