OK, but what about tomorrow?
Congratulations to Mayor Mendy Schuster and the Susanville City Council for their leadership in providing funding for the Lassen High…
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My Turn
The city and its residents should own Sierra Theater
Let’s get this straight right from the git-go. I truly love the performing arts. When I was just a wee…
Read more My encounter with the Secret Service
I was a student journalist at Fresno City College when Maureen Reagan, the president’s daughter, made a campaign stop at…
Read more Pride Month — Wadaya do with a middle-aged woman’s hips and caboose?
I’m guessing Toni, leaning pretty far into the butch camp, may have always dressed like a man — even before…
Read more Pride Month — How far can a community go?
My daughter has scheduled brain surgery the end of next month, so I’m going to be making a rare trip…
Read more Pride Month — The Wreck of the Hesperus
Toni survived the big 7.3 earthquake in Tehachapi in her prison cell. She said the women’s prison suffered so much…
Read more Prime Month — Toni Bruce
The first openly gay person with whom I had a semi-adult relationship was christened Beverley Price. I met her as…
Read more Pride Month — So there!
I worked as an adjunct faculty member at Fresno City College teaching mostly remedial English classes when I was in…
Read more Pride Month — Oh, my God!
Back in my younger, more demented days when I was into redheads, a girl and I were getting kinda close….
Read more Pride Month — What’s past is prologue
Once upon a time back in the disco era, I was the night manager of a Dennys restaurant on Blackstone…
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‘Yeah, yeah, yeah …’
It was 60 years ago today … Those of us who are old enough to remember the arrival of The…
Read moreAs Florence Reece once asked — ‘Which side are you on?’
Bertrand Russell, an important voice of the 20th century, once said, “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one…
Read moreGag me with a MAGA hat
Here’s the news my conservative friends probably will never get — FOX News settles the Dominion defamation suit for a…
Read moreLMUD and public comment
The Lassen Municipal Utility District should recognize public comment is the time for its board of directors, staff and legal…
Read moreRecent My Turn was about the mayor, not about LARP
Earlier this afternoon I got a call from a Local Area Revitalization Co-op officer regarding the My Turn I wrote…
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