Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”

My reputation as a brooding intellectual blossomed in junior high then flowered in high school.  It was a period in my life when I hauled around thick books on serious topics by profound authors for…

Needing assurance it was still in business, I pushed the Forest Club door open, took a stool and called for a cold can of Coors.  Good choice, this, I told myself.  Last time here I…

I remember the county jail when it was on the top floor of the courthouse, and I was on hand to watch the then-new jail installed out on Low Gap Road.  Now, surprise surprise, our…

Absent much of the past couple years, I too late realized I’d never taken full advantage of employment opportunities while in Mendocino County. The mistake was trying to fit my squaresville employment existence into the…

When we saw polar bears skateboarding down the big hill on North Dora Street we knew we were back in time for another glorious spring in Ukiah.  So nice to see the snow and holiday…

I arrived in Ukiah a long time ago, back when stegosauruses roamed Laytonville, the Dead Sea was merely ill, and no one in Mendocino County had ever heard of marijuana. You might think these were…

Two recent comments, published in opposition to the planned new courthouse, suggest security measures are overrated as there’s no history of breaches or escape attempts within anyone’s memory. Ahem.  I have a memory, and it…

Mendocino County’s marijuana industry was started by curious hippies, all with a tinge of the outlaw, and grew and flourished through the years despite the real possibility of arrest, imprisonment, ripoffs, crop failures and more. …