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Posts published by “Malcolm Macdonald”

Report From Ground Zero

The January 20th meeting of the County Behavioral Health Advisory Board (BHAB) was held at what some might term “ground zero” on the Mendocino Coast.…

Mental Health On The Scanner

You write long enough in newspapers and you develop a series of sources. People you can go to for information and people who want to…

Lone Pine

The Inyo was the land of the Paiute for thousands of years. They say Inyo means dwelling place of great spirits. The modern county that…

Missing The Mark

Film maker Ron Howard has stated several times that the sneak preview of his 1995 movie Apollo 13 produced one comment card that totally trashed…

Hiking Yosemite

The barren summit of Yosemite's Half Dome is 8,836 feet above sea level, more than 4,700 feet higher than Yosemite Valley directly below. In 1868…

Ortner Denounced

At 9:06 a.m. Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Chair Carre Brown gaveled the Tuesday, December 15th meeting to order then opened the speaker's podium to…

Coast Hospital Blues (& Reds)

A 2013 article in Salon.com declared that “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result,” had…

Fort Bragg City Council Meeting

The initiative to ban social service organizations, retroactive to January 1, 2015, in Fort Bragg's Central Business District will be entitled Measure U on the…

The Issue Behind The Initiative

On November 9th the Fort Bragg City Council recognized various volunteers serving on city wide commissions, committees, and advisory boards. The council continued the Stage…

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