There’s papers here. There’s papers there. Could be a desk underneath somewhere. Entropy got a hold of me inexorably. I keep a stack of items that seem worth quoting if and when a hook presents…
Posts published in June 2022
A hundred miles before breakfast. It was founding Rider staffer Dick Blom’s number one road rule in the old days back in the Seventies before many of you were born. His number two rule was…
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In last week’s column I explained that three Supervisors, Ted Williams, Mo Mulheren, and Glenn McGourty, are planning to place a sales tax measure on the November ballot. The stated purpose of their proposed sales…
One quick and easy way to go American is to lose the diacriticals. Born with a suspicious Umlaut, Mehmet Öz does business on tv—whether as celebrity host of his own long-running health show, or now…
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It felt like witnessing a public execution without knowing what the condemned man did. The sudden downfall this past week of popular Ukiah Police Chief Noble Waidelich rocked the community and local law enforcement. Waidelich…
With half of the six scheduled Hearings by the House Jan. 6 Committee behind us, it’s time for an assessment. The MMM (mainstream mass media) and what remains of the once robust but never very…