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Highway signs improved with the Interstate

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My wife and I have been watching TV coverage of the removal of the John P. Grace Bridge across Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. Seeing this revives the tension we felt when we crossed that bridge in our motorhome several years...

Posted by editor - Sat Jun 3, 2006 12:41:18 PDT -- 1 comment

Whatever happened to diaries?

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I'm beginning to think that hardly anybody keeps a personal diary anymore. That used to be a common practice. I remember when girls would write to Ann Landers complaining that their mothers had read their diaries and were shocked by some...

Posted by editor - Wed May 31, 2006 12:14:31 PDT -- 0 comments

Tehachapi Pass not first choice in early days

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Going east to west in California isn't nearly as easy as going south to north because of the barrier of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and its southern extension, the Tehachapi Mountains. There are surprisingly few good routes across the...

Posted by editor - Wed May 24, 2006 13:52:06 PDT -- 1 comment

Entertainment industry often produces doers

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My wife and I have always enjoyed performances by the late actor Roddy McDowall who appeared in nearly 150 movies and probably twice as many television shows. He was one of the most delightful villains who ever did nasty things on the...

Posted by editor - Fri May 19, 2006 16:50:00 PDT -- 1 comment

Mental health a concern for older people

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Most folks my age have seen friends and relatives of their vintage fade into the dim world of senile dementia, often when their physical conditions remain fairly robust. We tend to label this condition Alzheimer's Disease even though...

Posted by editor - Wed May 10, 2006 10:08:10 PDT -- 1 comment

Being poor is a good way to scam the IRS

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When we sold the Tehachapi News a few years ago my plan was to put the money in a coffee can and bury it in the sand next to my grass shack on Maui. My wife immediately rained on that parade. Instead, we deposited the money with Chuck...

Posted by editor - Wed May 3, 2006 12:05:05 PDT -- 1 comment

Follow up on column about nasty ailment

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Although I seem to have an unlimited capacity to gross people out, I thought I had gone to the far edge a few months ago when I wrote about irritable bowel syndrome. My wife, who censors my columns to eliminate really disgusting stuff,...

Posted by editor - Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:52:48 PDT -- 0 comments

It's time you paid attention to my advice

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IYou're so convinced I'm full of hot air that you probably forget that more than five years ago I was way ahead of everybody when I organized DAMN, which stands for Diets Are Mostly Nonsense. Even though I set a low membership fee (I...

Posted by editor - Fri Apr 14, 2006 15:24:21 PDT -- 1 comment

Early days of electronics are just yesterday

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Our granddaughter Nikki and her husband Buddy came by the house over the weekend and something in our conversation took me back to the days when radios and TVs were full of vacuum tubes. When I started to reminisce, it quickly became...

Posted by editor - Fri Apr 7, 2006 18:17:53 PDT -- 0 comments

Jack Smith was dead right about 'disprovements'

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Hardly a week goes by that I don't think fondly of the late Jack Smith who used to write a frivolous column for the Los Angeles Times. It was the best part of the paper, stuck in the midst of ponderous stories for which the Times is...

Posted by editor - Fri Apr 7, 2006 14:23:18 PDT -- 0 comments

Overall Picture, by Bill Mead

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Former owner and editor of the Tehachapi News, Bill Mead, has a tongue-in-cheek way of looking at life as he expounds on his own experiences and opinions with the ordinary and not-so-ordinary happenings in our changing world.

Posted by admin - Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:18:56 PST -- 0 comments

Overall Picture: Anybody home at America's big companies?

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For the first time in my life I wish I could be elected to public office. It's not that I want to tap into the lifetime retirement perks you get when you push your snout into the public trough. I don't have that much lifetime left. I...

Posted by admin - Wed Mar 29, 2006 15:13:55 PST -- 2 comments

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