Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”

Ukiah was among California cities hardest hit by the pottery craze of the 1970s.  Ukiah suffered crippling waves of pottery fevers until they lessened and broke circa 1985. Smaller, less toxic crafts-borne plagues were reported…

The biggest favor Mendocino County could do for itself is revive the long dormant logging industry.  A well thought-out program to utilize our abundance of trees makes as much sense as growing and harvesting corn…

Disturbing news suggests baseball has grown delirious from ill-considered changes made by owners unfamiliar with the game’s history and traditions.  Alarmed, son Lucas and I launched a 250-mile roundtrip journey to Oakland to assess baseball’s…

There are no wrong answers but most are less correct than others. All responses evaluated by licensed officials, scores published, attitudes analyzed, consequences likely.  1) Would you rather A) Be suffering from a serious wound…

A long road paved with good intentions has brought Mendocino County to a hellish land of marijuana cultivation called Covelo.  Those good intentions were mostly lies, but well-intended ones. Maybe.  After all the years of…

Support for a traffic roundabout at Bush and Low Gap seems confined to those who work in government, which is sufficient cause for skepticism among the rest of us. City officials recently resurrected plans for…

The internet is the land of a million tongues and a thousand truths, many false. It’s a brightly lit shadowy world where facts are sometimes factual, political agendas are everywhere and everything is coated in…

Sporadically deadly, choosy in its victims, the COVID-19 era is staggering into the dumpster of obsolete diseases. Luck and science will soon end it and medical historians will then go about comparing it to previous…