Born a 10th generation Oregonian, (5 generations on each side) I have an enthusiasm for learning and teaching new things. After a ten year mini career in the dental field I moved on to research and embraced the social web. Though the internet is far too large for any one person to claim to be an expert, I can hold my own with the latest trends.
I enjoy researching and writing blogs. As the "Internet Program Director" for myMotherLode.com since 2008, I update the website and have a wide variety of interests. There is always something entertaining, educational or inspirational to share.
In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln wrote that government isn’t “…charged with the duty of redressing, or preventing, all the wrongs in the world” and felt that it’s role is to only do those things that cannot be done individually but need to be done collectively like roads, schools, public safety and national defense.
According to 18th-century abolitionist William Wilberforce, “We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible… So we will do them, anyway.”
On the economy, the markets and the politically unstable world we’re living in, former Goldman Sachs Chairman Lloyd Blankfein says, ”It’s never as bad as your worst fears or as good as your best hopes.”
Why is Tuolumne County wasting staff time and taxpayer money pursuing their so-called Climate Action Plan when it will make no difference? The General Plan should never have required it despite pressure from the State. There are already so many items crying for attention that actually impact their constituents and the local environment: homelessness, that has proven to be detrimental with trash, waste and fire danger; public safety that lacks the funding to pursue illegal pot farms and meth labs that also have a negative environmental impact; and roads, that quite simply are failing. These are the issues that the Board of Supervisors should be holding special meetings on.
