It’s been tough sledding for newspapers the past 30 years. Allow me to elaborate. The first two newspapers I worked on were The Plain Dealer (once the biggest newspaper in Ohio) and the Cleveland Press…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
We should start asking ourselves what our limits might be regarding traveling criminals who have found Ukiah an agreeable place to squat. I’ve not been keeping score but it seems on the one hand local…
Two swallowtail butterflies are again fluttering in my backyard, bringing me cheer for about the 20th year in a row. It remains a mystery whether the same pair of butterflies, now deep into old age,…
Graffiti is mildly annoying in small doses, but no city can risk allowing it to spread. Defacing public or private property is a test, and a town that ignores it will soon be visited by…
I hadn’t been to Willits in a year or more, and when I drove through it a week ago it slowly dawned that the city looked different, and better. Way better. It’s gotten better than…
I've spent much my life around people with strong opinions about drugs and most of those opinions have been wrong if not lies. The more certain they were, the more laughable the outcomes. We've all…
It's fashionable to be old in America these days. Our elderly are treated with reverence tinged with envy, altogether proper for a generation that has done so much for so few: Themselves. There's never been…
A couple years ago I was melting my brains while adding to future melanoma woes at Spring Training in Phoenix. It was scorching hot, or did I already say Phoenix? I was a few rows…
We are in the midst of a lengthy tailspin into incompetence and mediocrity. We are unable to do anything, or at least not well. Look around Mendocino County. See the decline. Where once local citizens…