Many seasons ago I was dragged into service by a softball team I’d never heard of to play a position I’d never played. It went poorly. For the second time in my life I was…
Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”
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…
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…