A back-way approach to Tuesday’s 29 Palms Council meeting
THE STAFF “KICK-OFF” PROJECT PHOENIX CLOSED MEETING During the CITY MANAGER UPDATE agenda item the city manager announced that a Project Phoenix (“PP”) “Kick-Off Meeting” would be held today July 30....
View ArticleA city that ignores public safety has no credibility to remain a city
Does the CITY OF TWENTYNINE PALMS have a municipal responsibility to protect and serve the public? Does it have an ethical, moral or governmental responsibility to fund or help fund fundamental fire...
View ArticleBreaking: Four councilmen voted to nearly double property owners’ parcel tax
hTWENTYNINE PALMS (11:10 p.m.) – During tonight’s long city council meeting two outstanding advocates for the public were Council Member Heiser and immediate former 29 Palms Councilman Jim Harris....
View ArticleCan rotating Mayor Klink ban non-disruptive clapping?
Updated 8-22-15 @ 8:10 a.m. ♦ Can rotating Mayor Klink legally order a deputy sheriff to eject someone from the room for non-disruptive forms of expression, like non-disruptive light clapping by an...
View Article“NUTS!”
Christ teaches us to wish no man ill will. I believe he put it that we should hate the sin but love the sinner. But then we can only go so far. We can not disobey God’s Law. We as Christians have...
View ArticleCould the District Attorney’s office use some Judicial Canon of Ethics?
Untitleld Story The San Bernardino Sentinel By Mark Gutglueck A crisis has beset the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office as a breakdown in the relationship between district attorney Mike...
View ArticlePioneer Days Kick Off… Less than spectacular
Maybe next time we can get a little better Public Relations project going earlier into the planning stages. Maybe the event can be held in town someplace. I personally do not think that Lucky Parks...
View ArticleBROKEN PROMISES
City Council Member Mintz and the other two on the the council don’t want the community to know what they are going to do with downtown property the city is negotiating to buy. While plans are...
View ArticleVoters are alienated by local politicians’ self-serving acts, writes Dan...
Poor acts contribute to malaise BY DAN WALTERS dwalters@sacbee.com California has, as noted in this space previously, a severe civic malady – a sharp decline in voting. Politicians have been scrambling...
View ArticleCommunity malaise, Chamber of Commerce and tepid voter turnout
Updated @ 2:30 TWENTYNINE PALMS – We know some cities (29 Palms) have become the bread-winners for their Local Chamber of Commerce by subsidizing them with taxpayers money. In essence, these...
View ArticleIn Flanders Fields a Armistice Day Tradition
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely...
View ArticleThis happens every couple of years……
Well Ben and I have been racking our brains on how to fix the website. We eliminated some plugins, rehashed some programming and dumped some graphics and think we got it. the site was slower than the...
View ArticleTwentynine Palms: This Holiday Season the city forgot what makes America Great
We’ve gotten too far away from our core values ♦ Twentynine Palms minimizes Constitutional freedoms and maximizes their powers. It has literally destroyed what makes America great, the Ballot Box.We...
View ArticleI can see the light at the end of the tunnel
Well here we are 58 days out of ending my 30 month contract stint at the utility company that has been in and out of my life for well over 38 years. I will be back full time on the website sometime...
View ArticleI don’t get it?
Twentynine Palms, CA – The old guard Councilmen are proud of themselves. They renamed a small and obscure 100 yards long portion of El Paseo to Veterans’ Way. A contributor to the online version of...
View ArticleCalifornia Medical Association backs recreational pot plan
Tri-City Herald February 2. 2016 SACRAMENTO, CALIF – California\’s largest organization of practicing physicians, the California Medical Association, announced Monday that it is backing a proposed 2016...
View ArticleResearchers Warn Legal Marijuana Could Be Next Big Tobacco
Posted by CT contributor govcodesearch February 3, 2016 at 1:33 PM Researchers Warn Legal Marijuana Could Be Next Big Tobacco University of California, San Francisco researchers Rachel Barry, MA, and...
View ArticleCalifornia Freebies
The California Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) has recently expanded its anti-pollution Consumer Assistance Program (CAP). In addition to the popular “Cash for Clunkers” program that pays...
View ArticleSupreme Court Jusctice Anthony Scalia Dies on hunting trip
EL PASO — Sources close to Justice Antonin Scalia reports that the 79-year-old died in his sleep last night after a day of quail hunting at Cibolo Creek Ranch outside of Marfa, Texas. The Justice did...
View ArticlePatrick Watson: Apple vs. FBI
By Patrick Watson, Newsmax Finance Apple is resisting FBI orders to break security features in an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. A lengthy court battle is likely. The technology...
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