The takeaway from last week's Coast Hospital piece was this: In the fall of 2016 Mendocino Coast District Hospital's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) downplayed the seriousness of billing and coding errors made by the newly…
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MENDOCINO COUNTY’S tweaker community may be unaware of their preferred drug’s appropriately grim history. The fat guy with Hitler was his doctor, the man who regularly injected the One True Aryan with methamphetamine.
I spent the morning talking to Fort Bragg's development director, Marie Jones. She expressed a quiet dismay and gentle sympathy over the fate of my ship, which is after all a local landmark as well as my…
We recently asked the County’s CEO office a few questions about how the County was handling the budget for the new medical marijuana permit program. Deputy CEO (and County Budget Specialist) Alan ‘The Kid’ Flora…
The first 911 call said that someone was dropping rocks off the Perkins Street overpass onto Highway 101. When Patrol Sergeant Noble Waidelich of the CHP arrived he could see rocks in the roadway, some…
The Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) Board of Directors have denied Dr. Peter Glusker's attempt to have his recent censure rescinded. Glusker was censured by his fellow board members in January for hitting Reply ALL on a…
KELISHA ALVAREZ, now a legendary street person in the Ukiah valley, came to court last Wednesday under double guard, and dressed in the day-glow chartreuse coveralls that the jail uses for violent, unpredictable inmates. Ms.…
Getting Orr Springs Road reopened is a priority for Mendocino County Transportation Director Howard Dashiell, but he warns that making sure the solution will be safe is paramount. Orr Springs Road, oddly enough, is part…