Was it hot in Ukiah last week? It was Thursday when the sun quit spinning in the sky and the meteorologist heat index registered between…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
Here’s a short list of things that worked fine until we fixed them, at which point every solution wound up a failure. MARIJUANA: For decades…
There was a time in the good ol’ USA when manufacturing was booming, factories were humming and workers were making things on assembly lines. “Things”…
Journalism, once a noble calling, is now an embarrassment; reporters have reputations worse than used car salesmen. I did newspaper work 35 years, then morphed…
After a while it was like being in jail. After a while you quit thinking about having a beer because no matter what, the ice…
For many years city administrators have worked, if only by doing nothing, to destroy Ukiah’s history and its most treasured buildings. There may be other,…
My sister lives somewhere over there, a good distance far off, and she and I do not overspend our time keeping the relationship fresh. Petunia…
If any inattentive adult has any lingering doubt about the value of Ukiah’s library, some fog-clearing clarity is on its way. Our library, subsidized by…
The most shocking jolt I’ve ever experienced at an onstage performance came in the 1980s at the Ukiah Playhouse. Daughter Emily and I were happily…