General Posts

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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The ruin of the Pink Flamingo Hotel continues to haunt the city. Now this abandoned 33-room hotel is being stripped of copper pipe by thieves who find it easy picking as the walls are all opened up. The city invested $250,000 in a failed scheme that only made matters worse. Thieves, squatters and wild...
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By Steve Whitten for 29 Palms City Council I’m pro-OHV. OHV’s + Open Desert + Family Sport = A great economic idea for the City of Twentynine Palms. I do not own an OHV or participate in OHV activities. I remember as a kid having great times trail riding on mini-bike and later my...
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Road Projects Advance in County Areas On August 24, the San Bernardino Board of Supervisors took action to advance road projects in Oak Hills, Wrightwood, and Lucerne Valley. “I am especially pleased we are moving forward to improve the situation around the new Oak Hills High School,” said San Bernardino County First District Supervisor...
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Whitman leads Brown in California governor’s race | Reuters (Reuters) – Republican Meg Whitman has opened up a 7-point lead over Democrat Jerry Brown in their closely watched race for California governor, the latest poll of likely voters showed on Friday. Whitman, a billionaire former eBay chief executive who has already poured more than...
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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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Lancaster, Ca.– Getting older sucks. Having a sibling pass away sucks even more. My wife and I have been gone for a couple of days to the Lancaster area. My wife’s second oldest sister Rose passed at 1:08 PM today at the Antelope Valley Hospital. Rose was a complicated  soul. On the one hand...
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Dear Steve Whitten, Thank you for your service to our country. It is great that you now want to be of service to the city of Twentynine Palms. In your statements of what you envision for our city you mention increasing businesses to increase revenue and bring jobs to our city. I think that...
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By Steve Whitten, Candidate For 29 Palms City Council A blog reader asked my view of Big Box development along Highway 62.   Do we need to look like Yucca Valley? Absolutely not. We do need a Big Box store that has the ability to provide our citizens an alternative grocery store (Jobs) and a Big Box...
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A Reach Out Morongo Basin volunteer coordinator, Mary Reeves, is reminding people that volunteers are need for the *Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program. Training begins in October and another in November. At any given moment, Zeus, King of the Greek Gods – god of the sky — whose symbol is the thunderbolt —...
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