Hello, good evening and welcome everyone to our annual celebration of ourselves and our self worth and our goals and achievements. But first of all, to start things off, let’s stand, all of you! —…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
There is no understanding 20th century America without being acquainted with the nation’s mid-century interstate highway expansion. The massive cross-country freeway linkage was the crowning achievement of President Eisenhower’s eight years in office, and has…
Going back further than any of us can remember we have listened to political candidates telling us in loud, plain, repetitive language that their Number One priority is to bring good jobs to Ukiah and…
We’re in the middle of a brief stretch in a long year when we pause to count blessings, give thanks and acknowledge our good luck. We are finished with 2025, and look where we are:…
Do we get softer, more sentimental, less intelligent and less able to think clearly as we age? (Asking for a friend.) Actually I’m asking for, or about, my wife. She was once hard-headed, tough-minded and…
There are many things I don’t understand. Some are common, like the mystery of airplanes able to heave their loaded bulk high above the clouds, coming down a million miles away with (almost) never a…
Let’s hope Ukiah is sufficiently heads-up to send out a few photographers to snap glamour shots before the trees on School Street get harvested. When the call goes out to goose tourism numbers, the city…
The lingering fragrance (is that patchouli oil?!?) left behind by the ever dwindling number of baby boomers shuffling off the planet brings to mind the lofty goals and miserly achievements of Generation Us. Oh how…
It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to determine the point at which smallish, people-friendly towns evolve into big anonymous cities that grow to the point they become unlivable. I knew a guy who talked about…