Really, I had no idea. We’re all ambitious in my family, but hardly any of my cousins have become as famous as me. Visiting every…
Posts published by “Thom Elkjer”
The first two seasons of “The Crown,” the Netflix series about Queen Elizabeth of England, were intriguing. A young princess gets accelerated onto the throne…
The conflagration in downtown Boonville last Thursday afternoon drew crowds of neighbors, valley locals, and firefighters. If you were among the first two groups, you…
If you’re like most people in the valley, you get to Boonville fairly often. You eat in the cafes, you hit Rossi or the Drive-in,…
Antoinette and I were about to leave Boonville for Ukiah on Thursday July 5 when our pagers went off. We immediately checked if they signaled…
What if the revolution came, and we missed it because we tossed out the announcement? Seems like that’s what happened last month, when PG&E customers…
If it’s spring the calendar must be bursting with local events. Every organization with a festival to put on, or funds to raise, or things…
I became an EMT because of natural disasters I witnessed in the Bay Area. In 1989, I was in an office building near the epicenter…
Economists use the phrase “essential utility” to describe something so important to a community that it must be owned or regulated by the community. For…