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By now most people have read Mel Berlin’s email sent to 29 Palms City Manager Mike Tree. And you’ve read the other posts put up in Cactus Thorns concerning these bizarre turn of events with the City Manager, City Council and Mel Berlin. Then you know he’s back, the same guy. He dumped the...
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This Candidates Speakers forum is going to happen. It will happen with or without the use of a city building. It seem word may have come down from city hall to make things difficult for candidates, the community and the alternative news sources in the valley. This decision flies in the face of the...
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Thanks for dropping in Gary. I serve the best brew of coffee in the neighborhood. I think you’ll like this dark roast. It’s a rich and flavorful premium Arabica blend grown in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. At least that’s what it says on the container. Here’s why I invited...
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∞ Steve Brown posted a comment in a blog entitled Up in Smoke-a response to “Mel” ∞  Steve is Publisher of THE  SUN RUNNER, a locally based publication with a circulation of over 50,000. His comment are important. My suggestions to the organizers in Coffee with Mel and Branson are also important as well...
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The chief organizer for Action Council 29 raised a really good question during last Wednesday’s council meeting. He queried why those whom disagree with him didn’t have any of their own suggestions for Chalk-Fest. Here are some suggestions Mr. Berlin. 1. The beer garden thing should be put to rest. Good for making money,...
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Riverside council members will consider appointing a panel of citizens to thoroughly evaluate the ethics code and recommend changes, the council’s governmental affairs committee decided Wednesday. Read the story in an alternative media blog here, or read the entire story in The Press-Interprise here.
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∞ This story ran in a San Bernardino alternative media blog and the The Press Interprise ∞ Senior Blogger – iePolitics, San Bernardino County – District Attorney Mike Ramos, the architect of a corruption probe against various current and former San Bernardino County officials, has now become the recipient of criticism from senior republicans....
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Reach Our Morongo Basin is at it again. These folks never cease to bedazzle the community with their overwhelming outpour of fantastic program and new challenges to better serve the community. Their current Sept/Oct  newsletter announces yet another meaningful gift to the community. This one   teases our emotions with good things to come. Christmas...
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I have never seen a more hideous and pathetic display of abject arrogance from any human being in my entire life. Two City Councilmen brought their brains with them to the meeting tonight. Those honorable Councilmen were Jim Harris and Steve Spear. The remain three councilmen, Klink, Cole and rotating Mayor Flock, were brain-dead...
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* REGARDING  THE CHALK-FEST AFFAIR * I read the following comments early this morning from one of our local 29 Councilmen and publisher of The Sun Runner, the  talented Steve Brown. Said comments were posted in a  THORNS blog entitled The New “Strategery“. I apologize to Councilman Spear and Steve Brown for taking their...
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