Author Archives: Branson Hunter

City manager says he wasn’t pushed to resign

May 22, 2013 2 comments

The  header to this story is a bit misleading. The Moreno Valley city manager said this week he wasn’t pushed to resign. It was not the Richard Warne (Twentynine Palms outgoing city manager) who said...

Tale of three cities facing public scrutiny (Yucca Valley, 29 Palms, S...

May 21, 2013 no comments

Morongo Basin residents are facing the same inchoate problems with our elected officials as voters are in the City of San Bernardino.  The dog art image shown to the left is pretty much a classic exa...

Publisher of The Sun Runner strikes desert gold, while Twentynine Palm...

May 16, 2013 no comments

There are two new happenings in the Basin of historic proportions about to unfold before our eyes. Look for the new PBS TV production to be airing soon called “The Real Desert TV Show” produced by Su...

More and more, what the city council is doing doesn’t add up

May 12, 2013 no comments

 Twentynine Palms, CA – Famed theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Stephen Hawkins, explains that once light is sucked inside a black hole it cannot escapes. The event horizon of a black hole...

It’s time for Twentynine Palms to play by the rules

May 11, 2013 1 comment

PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S COVETED WORDS IN THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS  SPEAK TO TWENTYNINE PALMS A government “of the people, by the people and for the people” is at the heart of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Add...

Gov. Jerry Brown signs law to fund gun seizures

May 1, 2013

The Legislature’s final votes on SB 140 were 65-10 in the Assembly and 37-0 in the state Senate. Gun-rights and lobbying groups including the National Rifle Association, the National Shooting Sports ...

Budget Cuts Nix $90 Million in Federal College Aid

April 30, 2013

AP/ Time: Budget Cuts Nix $90 Million in Federal College Aid (WASHINGTON) — Schools near military bases and tribal lands will face a $60 million shortfall between now and September and aid to college...

Update: JTNP graffiti removal continues, area closure continues

April 29, 2013

Park authorities say Joshua Tree National Park Rattlesnake Canyon and Barker Dam has been heavily vandalized. JTNP planned to reopen the canyon on Tuesday, but the opening could be delayed if more gr...

WWII vet who provided flag on Iwo Jima has died

April 28, 2013

Alan Wood, a World War II veteran credited with providing the flag in the famous flag-raising on Iwo Jima, has died. He was 90. Wood died April 18 of natural causes at his Sierra Madre home, his son ...

“Yucca Valley sheriff’s captain allegedly using excessive force&...

April 27, 2013

“Nuaimi and assistant town manager, Shane Stueckle, can be heard joking about the incident they just witnessed.” Yucca Valley, CA –  While Yucca Valley Town Manager Mark Nuaimi look...

Posse Comatatus – Z107.7 treads where the Hi-Desert Star fears ...

April 23, 2013

I believe the Hi-Desert Star was remiss in failing to report the “The Story Within the Story” concerning the tragic April 19 accident on SR 62 where an errant Marine Humvee in convoy veer...

A fool and his money are soon parted

April 21, 2013

Twentynine Palms, CA - Okay, so the Twentynine Palms City Council wants to replace its city manager. How do you go about doing this? A reasonable and prudent city council would look to the four corne...

LATimes: Joshua Tree targeted by graffiti vandals using social media

April 14, 2013

Los Angeles Times – Joshua Tree National Park has become a destination of taggers, and the graffiti has visitors and park officials outraged. “We come to this place because it’s not...

An Appeal to the Morongo Basin Community

April 10, 2013

Immediately below is an open letter to the Morongo Basin and Mojave Desert communities concerning the future of the desert, and its visual and the environmental quality of life in the Morongo Basin a...