Dan OBrien

About Dan OBrien

Cactus Thorns has been online in one form or the other since 2001. What started as a personal blog documenting the corruption and lack of Due Process of the 29 Palms Community Development Department has turned into over these many years into a hugely popular Independent Alternative News Media Outlet. We have partnered with other media including The Desert Star Weekly, Joshua Tree Star, other blogs, indie media and an incredible staff of volunteer Reporters, Commentators and Opinion Makers to create one of the most read, honest and dependable alternative to the Local traditional Media services in the country. Thanks to you the reader we are in the 5% of most read sites in the World.
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82 Years old Man Ran Down In Barstow

On 05/17/2013 at 8:15 PM, Barstow Police Department officers responded to a 911 call for a man who was pinned underneath a pickup truck after being run over in the 2200 block of “P” Stree...
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Woman lost on backside of Baldwin Lake

The Big Bear Sheriff’s Station is requesting assistance from the public to be on the lookout for missing person Karen Dalman. Dalman was last seen at approximately 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 14, 2013...
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It’s nice to get an atta boy

Thank you Dan O’Brien. Thank you Steve Spear. Thank you Jim Bagley. Your caring vigilance in the operation of our city is most appreciated.     Thank you K. J. Snyder for your support. Dan ...
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Alexander Gavin, 23, Joshua Tree

On Tuesday May 14th, 23 years old Alexander Gavin passed away at the  Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs. Gavin a resident of Joshua Tree died from complications caused  from a Febuary 21...
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It was a Barn Burner

For me Last nights meeting was short and to the point. I received a rambling incoherent letter from the City Attorney. I kicked off the public comment session with a short talk about the Council taki...
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Sheriff asking if you saw the YV Shooting

On Thursday, May 9, 2013, at approximately 11:41 a.m., deputies from the Morongo Basin Station responded to a shots fired call at the Town Center Mall in Yucca Valley. The mall is located on the corn...
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Lana Beat Mama with the dead cat

Mohave County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Lana Renee Meadville, 47, of Kingman, Thursday (5/9) morning for cruelty to animals and aggravated assault per domestic violence, both felonies. Approximatel...
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Its a Good Day for the People

“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a peo...