October 2013 Archives

Some of us "older" folks feel it is a small reward just to get out of bed in the morning.  But looking back at the 16 days of a government shut-down, I had the feeling that somehow I was transported, via some time-space continuum, into wah-wah land where other-world creatures had achieved a reverse aging process.  A child in this new universe is born with superior intelligence but imprisoned in a small undeveloped body.  As this child ages, his body matures but his mind deteriorates resulting in some sort of "man-child" governmental leadership with fully developed bodies and childish ideas as to how the country should be run.

Local Monterey County Ballot Measures "K" and "M" call into question whether local residents should have the right to determine local land use issues.

Measure M proposes that neither the Board of Supervisors nor the City of Seaside be allowed to decide Fort Ord land use issues but, instead, the electorate of the entire Monterey County should determine whether to eliminate 540 acres of Fort Ord land from development and thus prevent, not only the Monterey Downs proposal, but any other land use except "open space."