When homeless problems arose in Ukiah 30 or so years ago, citizens responded by giving handfuls of spare change to people on the outs. This was back when a couple guys assumed daily positions out…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
I’m not stupid but I am incompetent, though hardly more than the average person, which is worrisome. My problem is I don’t know anything about how the world works. A short list of things that…
Just in time and in the right place Banned Books Week is here, and let’s expand its scope to include the trend opposing free speech in America. Every year the Mendocino Book Company joins a…
A local specialty is to let our finest, prettiest, most historic buildings be purchased by strangers and then allowed to sit and rot. Encouraged to sit and rot, even. Almost 40 years have passed since…
Have you ever heard your doctor openly criticize another Ukiah doctor? Has your doctor ever told you a local medical professional is incompetent? It just doesn’t happen. I can’t imagine my doc saying “That guy…
Ours is the first generation in history unyoked from the burdens that defined life for those who came before us. Our generation, ushered into a standing civilization in which all life’s bounties are provided and…
I was at Todd Grove Park, doing nothing, and spotted a big wooden sign on the western edge across from the golf course. I walked over and checked out various plaques honoring Ukiahans. My eyes…