Tag Archives: TPFD

Memo from Councilman Jay Corbin to taxpayers

June 16, 2013 no comments

PREFACE The following Memorandum is pure satire based on fact, history, public records, information and belief. There should be no ambiguity of this actually being one of the Twentynine Palms City Co...

From 29 with Love, the Unger Legacy

May 26, 2013

Local Desert Trail reporter, Rebecca Unger, is credited with doing an outstanding job reporting on city council meetings. We are all better off as a small community and better informed because of Reb...

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

May 16, 2013

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...

The city should reconsider its policy to stay out of water district bu...

February 16, 2013

Everything  is not fine in 29.  The errant meteor that slammed into Chelyabinsk created a shock wave explosion that caused most of the damage. There are about 500,000 near-Earth objects the same size...

What to do? Do it the Owen Gillick Way

February 9, 2013

Twentynine Palms, CA –  A Task-Force Feasibility and Desirability Committee dedicated to funding or helping fund  the TPFD for the public good ought to have  taken place earlier this year. Some...

29 Palms Council Council Meeting -Tuesday, February 12

February 9, 2013

“Options for Providing Fire Services” is included in the regular Agenda. What is interesting is Agenda #12 (Options for Providing Fire Services). While this is the most important item of all, it come...

Response to Rescue Guy re Brazilian Fire Analogy

January 30, 2013

Brazilian fire: One father said, “Those responsible are the people we elected to protect us. City Hall,” he specified. “they failed to prevent this from happening.” Another father said, “One minute m...

Brazil Fire puts the Spotlight on 29 Palms and the Casino Coming to To...

January 29, 2013

BLOGGER’S NOTES “The disaster, the worst fire of its kind in more than a decade, also raises questions of whether Brazilian authorities are up to the task of ensuring safety in such venue...

Follow-up: TPWD votes to retain the 29 Fire Department

January 24, 2013

  This is a follow-up to last nights historic Twentynine Palms Water District / Fire Department meeting. At the onset of the meeting “Sam” Moore, Jr., President of the Board, read a ...

Bigger fish to fry than City Manager Richard Warne

January 15, 2013

Yes the 29 Palms City Manager well deserves to be criticized and fired for his scheming, his heavy handed style of management, his blundering $31 million city debt and his manifest failure to take st...

A heavyhanded slap in the face!

January 10, 2013

Talks haven’t even started, yet the 29 city council is already stumbling and jockeying for leverage and control. Their message  to the TPWD Board of Directors is clear — “Go screw your self.” B...

Santa’s Christmas Eve layover in Desert Heights!

December 25, 2012

A chat with Santa over an open fire, reindeer replenishing themselves on clover hay and oats, and some surprising insights from Santa Claus. Desert Heights, Twentynine Palms, CA - During the last wee...

City Manager Richard Warne wants us to “Eat Cake”

December 5, 2012

 City Manager Richard Warne is desperate. While the city rolls the dice stalling on public safety, it may be willing to place the private and  public sectors in harm’s way — as well as th...

Twentynine Palms: A life or death situation?

November 23, 2012

Below is an e-alert Communique from our local “Community Emergency Response Team” (CERT) Coordinator, Mary Reeves, about the “life or death situation” confronting our community of Twentyn...