The Brown Act means what it says – latimes.com
This editorial applies to our Local Municipal Governments as well….. The best way to deal with slower learners is often patient repetition of a lesson. It seldom does much good to shout at them...
Category Archives: Opinion
Hows that Patriot Act working out?
The history of Governments’ ability to stop Terrorist Attacks is dismal. Here listed below, are just a few of the Islamic attacks since September 11, 2001. With all the hoopla of the Patriot Ac...
Giving Up Liberty for Safety
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. —Benjamin Franklin February 17, 1775 Well here is another act of Ter...
Civil liberties: American freedom on the line
I enjoyed this little ditty from our Cousins across the Big Pond. From the land that brought us George Orwell himself: Civil liberties: American freedom on the line A few months before he was first e...
DOJ Fights Release of Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveilla...
In the midst of revelations that the government has conducted extensive top-secret surveillance operations to collect domestic phone records and internet communications, the Justice Department was du...
D-Day – June 6, 1944 – the United States Army
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called ...
Is Local Media Broken?
Morongo Basin of Communities - Local radio and newspapers are broken to a degree, and it’s time to fix it. Local media has all but abandoned substantive local reporting in our corner of the desert an...
The Ministry of Propaganda
News propaganda is a type of propaganda covertly packaged as credible news, but without sufficient transparency concerning the news item’s source and the motivation behind its release. Transpar...
It’s True Local Governments Can Lie To You
I hope you caught the hatchet job by what is beginning to appear as the official Print Organ of the City of Twentynine Palms, the Desert Trail proudly proclaimed that Government Can Lie and they will...
Sorry Global Warmists, But Extreme Weather Events Are Becoming Less Ex...
Just about every type of extreme weather event is becoming less frequent and less severe in recent years as our planet continues its modest warming in the wake of the Little Ice Age. While glo...
Transparency and Fairness lose 3-2 in Closed Door Vote
Twentynine Palms, CA– Councilmen Mintz, Klink and Corbin refused last night to take the pledge to not violate the Ralph M. Brown Act. They in their juvenile minds believe it is better to violat...
Get along little doggie: Another great time at Parker’s Ranch
We’ve been hyping up the Morongo Basin Horseman’s Association Play Days at Parker’s Ranch out on Mesquite Road in 29 Palms for about a year. This past weekend we had a three day cat...
We need a Brown Act Pledge not another Closed Session
There is another Closed Door Executive Session next Tuesday to discuss the possibility of yours truly, entering into litigation with the City of Twentynine Palms. I’d like to put a kibosh to su...
City manager says he wasn’t pushed to resign
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...