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Posts published by “Malcolm Macdonald”

Good Money After Bad Hospital Execs

A helicopter hovered overhead on Tuesday evening, February 27th, while inside Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) the Board of Directors held a job performance review regarding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bob Edwards. Outside the Redwoods…

Standley v. Ketchapaw

Many Mendocino County residents have at least heard of Doc Standley, the fearless lawman of the last decades of the nineteenth century. Some may have read about Doc's son, William Harrison Standley, who was both…

Doc Standley, A Deer & A Bear Hunt

Jeremiah “Doc” Standley arrived in California at the age of eight in 1853. He walked and rode with his family in a small wagon train that left Missouri in the spring and arrived in the…

The Tire Baby of the 1920s

When I was of preschool age in the 1950s my mother's method of discipline when we traveled about in public was to inform me that if I didn't behave myself I'd have to sit in…

Fong Wan’s Herbs

You never know what you'll run across. While researching other matters I found this item in a March, 1925 publication, with the headline, “Woman Turned to Stone.” Who could resist reading on to learn about…

“Board Certified” & Board Chairs

At a November, 2017, Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) Board meeting, the Medical Staff Manager made a statement that included the claim that the hospital's physicians “are 100% board certified.” A few moments later he…

Ab Regs, Then & Now

By a 4-0 vote in December the California Fish and Game Commission decided to close the 2018 recreational abalone season because of “ongoing environmental conditions that have significantly impacted the abalone resource.” The closure affects…

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