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Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”

In Covelo, Harsh Realities Setting In

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…

My Kind Of Town, Ukiah Is

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…

Wrap Your Cellphone In Tinfoil

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…

Fat Lady Singing ‘Goodbye, Covid’

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…

Coming Soon, Flying Carpets

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…

A Big, Shiny, Hollow Puzzle

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…

Houses Where Nobody Lives

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…

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