Bill Siemer grew up on a farm in Lassen County, played basketball at Shasta JC, went to Vietnam, became a newspaper reporter and then a lawyer and now considers himself a champion of the story that needs to be told. He lives on the bank of the river and takes pictures.
In reply to Steve. One of the first things they often do is mount million-candlepower-plus floodlamps on their houses and outbuildings. Their whole property and every property around them get lit up like a nighttime high school football game, a WalMart parking lot, or a high-security prison. The effect is worsened by them moving "closer […]
In reply to Barbara Rice. I was downtown yesterday to take our ballots to the RoV office. It occurred to me that the last time I was downtown was also to drop off ballots; I don't get around much, apparently. I park on Market beyond the paid parking spaces and walk the short blocks to […]
In reply to Steve. I don't care about parking close. I do care - speaking as a former very long-term resident, now an occasional visitor - that the city has made parking tourist-unfriendly, which affects downtown businesses. If someone's coming in off I-5,44, or 299 and lands somewhere between California and Pine, looking for lunch […]