After more than a year of being unable to go to regular church services at Sparks Christian Fellowship, my work schedule changed and I made it the last two Sundays. I’ve missed attending church. The first Sunday back I submitted a prayer request – not for my self – for my brother, Adam. I felt…

After making a smart-a$$ed comment about getting my shizz together, a friend, Laureen Kinnaman asked me how she could do that. She adds, “That could be valuable information for many of us.” Here goes… Stop the bad habits — My number one bad habit is sitting down in front of the television and not getting…

Retired Nevada state Senator Bill Raggio has died at age 85 and is being remembered as an icon in Nevada politics. The Reno Republican was the longest-serving state Senator in Nevada history when he retired last January just before the 2011 legislative session began. Raggio had become increasingly vocal against the hardline, no-tax stance of…

Smart Growth, Biodiversity, Outcome Based Education, Sustainable Development, Green, World View, Traffic Calming, Affordable Housing, Consensus, Social Justice, Regional, Open Lands, Quality of Life, Benefit for All; warm and fuzzy words and each a part of a code. It’s sinister and secretive – therefore you have to research and research until you locate the missing…

As a radio announcer, I’ve spent much of the last three decades teaching myself how to be less-wordy. I’ve also gone to the point of watching out for words that really mean nothing at the time they are said. I’ll get to this in a second — as I take the time to admit —…

My brother, Adam sent me 32 handwritten pages of a lecture, labeled “Early Days of Smith River,” he found in an old trunk. A note on one of the pages reads: ” Given by Grace Hight, September 3, 1948,  Smith River Women’s Club.”   Not only did I have to figure out what page followed the next, and decipher, type and edit…

Sometime in the 1880s, a local logging operation slashed and burned the forest a few miles northwest of Crescent City. Great stumps were left behind in the wake of the blaze. There was one called “the Wonder Stump,” and around 60 years it was well-known in the area. It was located near Wonder Stump Road,…

A federal appeals court recently overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8, stirring a contentious debate over the role of the judiciary in shaping public policy. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with a 2-1 majority, declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional, citing violations of the civil rights of…

This adventure began last year, when there was but two days left in the month of December. It continues this morning. Of course, I’m referring to the fact that I’ve been on the job daily now for the last forty calendar days and there’s no sign of relief in sight. Don’t get me wrong – I…

As I started my research on the Veterans of Foreign War hall in Klamath, I discovered it no longer exists. Checking with the VFW’s California Directory, I learned the hall was shuttered years ago due to low attendance and all existing memberships were transferred to the John McElroy Post #1381, in Crescent City. Not only was…