It’s What We DON’T Know That’s Bothering Us
We were out and about last night in our quest for truth and insight into our New America, keeping a parking garage meeting called by our own version of Deep Throat (Ref: All The President’s Men, 1976). Remarking about the unsettled nature of the current American landscape our tipster looked away, toed a discarded fast-food…
Sometimes, The Best Rescues Are The Littlest Ones
There was a good rescue in Martinez today, perhaps not the most dramatic with buzzing helicopters or cast life rings, but nevertheless one pulled off by strangers who came together to do some good. It started with Orinda Reader/Runner Amanda Ferguson, one of those people who sulk all day if they haven’t run 30 or…
Ask Not For Whom The Road Tolls, It Tolls For Thee…
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has announced that an express lane along an 11-mile stretch of southbound Interstate 680 from Martinez through Walnut Creek will begin charging tolls next month. Tolling operations will begin at 5 a.m. on Aug. 20 and will connect with the existing 11-mile express lane from Rudgear Road in Walnut Creek to…
Tales From Suburbia: Oddities Du Jour
All in all a bittersweet week in the semi-rural Badlands of the East Bay, with fair weather prevailing, cooks sharing recipes, gardeners comparing tomato harvests, and water mains giving out just as we declare ourselves in drought and in need of every precious drop. It’s all part of the irony of life, we suppose, attempting…
NFL Coach Remains In Critical Condition After San Ramon Bike Collision
Greg Knapp, a local resident and NFL quarterback coach, remains in critical condition at a local hospital after he was struck while riding his bicycle in San Ramon Saturday. Knapp was riding with traffic on Dougherty Road north of Monarch Road when a vehicle reportedly veered into his lane and made contact, knocking the cyclist…
Friday: A “Come To Jesus” Morning Caps A Tumultuous Week
If there was ever a week to come along and remind us all we’re living in the Great Golden State it was this one with egg-broiling heat, Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em seismic events and some human stories coming together in engaging, often very sad ways. Some among us go before their Earthly Judges today, some…
“Our Bella’s Back And We’re All Cel-a-bratin’… A Ya, A Ya, Our Bella’s Back!”
Little Bella’s humans let her out for a pee break on the Fourth and when the booming started at around 7:30 p.m. Bella took off, headed for the hills and leaving her Parkside neighborhood far behind. It turned out she sought refuge at Station 84 on Railroad Avenue in Pittsburg – where a photo was…
The Party’s Over… ‘Til Next Year
Americans celebrated Independence Day in typically American fashion up and down the 24/680 Sunday, sealing off cul de sacs and sending up personal pyrotechnics with varying effect and number of complaints. Local fire departments were kept busy responding to reports of things afire though, when all was said and done, our local fire district reported…
Tuesday Morning Wrapup: Things That Go Boom In The Night
Anyone with our Flash Alert system enabled got early word of a pyrotechnic detonation in downtown Walnut Creek that burst windows and frayed nerves Monday evening. Our first Flash went out a minute after 10 p.m. when a pyrotechnic of some type detonated near a skin care business at Mt. Diablo and Mt. Pisgah –…
The Post-Weekend Fishwrapper
One of the few advantages of this foreshadowing of Global Incineration they’ve been telling us about is how it tends to increase the productivity of a normal workday through anxiety and sleep deprivation. Being San Franciscans, mostly, and used to being coddled in a billowy, white Marine Layer dotted with the lulling boomlets of foghorns…