State Propositions Would Incur Billions in Debt
I've addressed three statewide propositions in previous columns. This week's column is a roundup of how I'm voting (and why) on the remaining propositions.
Proposition 90 is Taxpayer Trap, Would Cost Billions Annually
Problems with Proposition 90, that have devastating impacts on
Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’: Turmoil on the High Seas
Today your Mushroom City Memoirs columnist, Gale Hammond, fills you in on all you need to know about … er, excuse me … we just returned from an "adventure at sea" (a.k.a. "cruise"), and I must learn to talk like a normal person again. After keeping company with "Snowball Scotty" and "Bruce," our naturalist, for the past week, I am desperately trying to check my enthusiasm.
Beam Me Up?
Over three-quarters of a century. That's how long my wife and I have lived. Now, only a few years before 80, we have experienced many, many of life's strange twists. But, I believe a circumstance this past August was, perhaps, the strangest of all. But, let me set the stage.
Ben Gilmore’s Nov. 7 Election Picks
Our national motto, "e pluribus unum" is Latin for "from many one." It spoke of the unity of sovereign states into one nation. It also spoke of the melding of many cultures into one American culture. That culture, conceived in the 1600s, and born in 1776, grew to become the most creative, most productive, most benevolent, most liberating and most sustainable culture in human history!
Helping Chronically Homeless Will Require Coordinated Effort
Last week, dedicated workers and volunteers from more than 20 human service agencies brought food, clothing and services to unhoused people in South County.
