Today we explore the shabby, semi-shady spending schemes of our elected representatives who, failing repeatedly and learning nothing, plunge ahead with billion dollar projects you and I know are idiotic. (One of) Jerry Brown’s follies…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
We’ve been hearing “change is good” for so long some of us believe it, but the more changes I see the more things get worse. The newest and greatest improvements do not make for a…
Many things puzzle me about Ukiah and someday I’ll write a 25,000 word column listing them. For today, let’s limit ourselves to asking why so many houses stand empty around town. Not far from my…
I was hunting down some morning coffee at daughter Emily’s place in Santa Rosa and I opened a kitchen cupboard, pulled out a big white cup with big black letters that said: BITCH, PLEASE. I’M…
Reviewing my notes and sifting through relevant historical documents, it appears the last era in which I qualified as genuinely hip (or was it hep?) was in the mid- to late-‘70s. Since then it’s been…
A hard shot of COVID19 would be a shock to our system but not in the way medical experts think. Mendocino County is different, weirder and harder to figure. Assuming locals will respond to a…
Ukiah is a city of 16,000 with a median household income of $47,000. This is what some city employees earn in a year, including benefits, overtime pay, “extra” pay and whatever coins they find under…
Whether I’d been naughty or nice and regardless whether I’d shouted or pouted, Santa Claus has always been good to me. “Always” only goes back to the 1950s, but it suggests I have some history…
Just like you and everyone we know, I’ve been spending the past few decades not paying much attention to my ever-worsening eyesight. This is because it takes a few decades for it to get really…