Was it hot in Ukiah last week? It was Thursday when the sun quit spinning in the sky and the meteorologist heat index registered between OMG and WTF. Yeah, well I’m a Buckeye. Weather in…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
Here’s a short list of things that worked fine until we fixed them, at which point every solution wound up a failure. MARIJUANA: For decades weed supported Ukiah and Mendocino County economies despite it being,…
There was a time in the good ol’ USA when manufacturing was booming, factories were humming and workers were making things on assembly lines. “Things” weren’t all that workers were making, because money was also…
Journalism, once a noble calling, is now an embarrassment; reporters have reputations worse than used car salesmen. I did newspaper work 35 years, then morphed into a private investigator. Asked about my former career I…
After a while it was like being in jail. After a while you quit thinking about having a beer because no matter what, the ice chest is empty, the taps are dry and the guards…
For many years city administrators have worked, if only by doing nothing, to destroy Ukiah’s history and its most treasured buildings. There may be other, more sanitary explanations for how it has come to be…
My sister lives somewhere over there, a good distance far off, and she and I do not overspend our time keeping the relationship fresh. Petunia (not her real name) lives alone with a 17-year old…
If any inattentive adult has any lingering doubt about the value of Ukiah’s library, some fog-clearing clarity is on its way. Our library, subsidized by everyone, gets additional largesse from dim-witted feel-good patsies who keep…
The most shocking jolt I’ve ever experienced at an onstage performance came in the 1980s at the Ukiah Playhouse. Daughter Emily and I were happily engrossed in ‘Oliver Twist,’ a kid-friendly play with plenty of…