Crane's Corner

Listen in as today's discussion is with long time Real Estate Agent, Terry Knight.  We'll be talking about the market in general, some of the historical challenges real estate has faced and a look forward about what to expect in the near future.  Will our children or our grandchildren ever be able to get to the point where they can own a home as we know it today?  What could it possibly look like?  Is there a home buying ...

I suppose every state has its problems. Michigan lives and dies by the auto industry, which is now at a crossroads. Production is being hampered by shortages of computer chips while prices are putting new vehicles out of the hands of many would-be buyers. 

New York’s governor jumped before he could be pushed out of office and crime in New York and other big cities like Chicago remains out of control. Covid’s comeback is hitting the ...

It started before the Pandemic. I began working from home in January 2020, doing the morning news on a local radio station, and later other broadcast related work including writing and recording this Crane’s Corner Podcast.

I continue working from home, not because of Covid 19, but because the equipment I need is right here---so why pay the expense of an office, not to mention the travel time. It’s tough to goof off when the radio b...

What was the big takeaway from Tuesday’s resounding defeat of the Recall Governor Newsom petition? That Gavin Newsom is a terrific Governor? That the recall never had a chance? Those visits from the President and Vice President made all the difference.

No. The big takeaway is that Democracy prevailed. Democrat voters outnumber republican voters by about 2-1 in California, the recall efforts were primarily but not exclusively republi...

It was a vicious crime spree. A senseless crime spree. Awful as it was, the murder of a quiet animal loving Land Park woman may wind up being more than just a crime statistic in a state governed by people who tire of keeping them, blaming everyone and everything but the criminal for his assault on Mary Kate Tibbits and human decency.

Police say the woman was sexually assaulted and murdered  by a homeless drug addict with a significa...

Jeff Bezos can prove he’s a lot smarter than most of us with the mere opening of a bank statement. But the man who gave us Amazon and rewrote the book on retail sales, delivery and marketing in the 21st Century must really be bored. If he’s not riding a rocket ship to just this side of outer space, with plans for galactic expansion, he’s going back to the future, taking a walk on the wild side. Jeff Bezos and Amazon are investing i...

Nancy Pelosi loves ice cream. Too bad she doesn’t feel the same way about babies. Pelosi is a hypocrite, She’s a practicing Catholic who supports Abortion, long a no no in that faith. She went absolutely nuts when a small band of Trump supporters made a misguided, unlawful storming of the U-S Capitol, in which 5 people died. How does that stack up against the 600 thousand innocent babies, who are legally killed through abortion? Yo...

There’s an old saying that is usually brought into the conversation, when a political argument begins to escalate:

“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts”

The saying comes to mind in this year 2 of Covid as the virus, commanding a growing legion of variants is back with a vengeance,

How? Didn’t we get a vaccine?

Ah, yeah. Problem is not everyone who could benefit from it is getting the vaccine....

America’s collective work ethic is being put to the test--and so far, we’re grading around a D and an F isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Thanks to our government--federal and state government, America has replaced the word “enterprise” with “entitlement”. Once upon a time, a walk through a suburban business district might offer an occasional “help wanted” sign. Now, it’s a rare business that isn’t looking for help and putting...

I’ve been a daily coffee drinker since my college days and if I miss a cup, I get cranky. That's partly the caffeine, but it’s also the ritual of getting the day started with a warm beverage that officially separates you from a night's sleep and directs your brain to move forward. Coffee by itself...not the half soy milk double shot caramel latte with extra whip cream is not only good for clearing the cobwebs, it’s a powe...

It was in the spring of 2020 as Covid 19 began hitting America and the world with a vengeance. It soon became clear that the virus--with no vaccine available, was spreading fast, potentially deadly to the elderly, the sick and those with underlying conditions. It also became clear that this was a very unique situation. For one thing, no one could or would agree on the source of human infection for a virus that would soon morph into...

Over the years there have been political hacks, immoral scalliwags and outright thieves leading the 50 states, and outside of waiting till they term out or sadly, political assasination, the way Kentucky Governor Bill Goebel left office, the only way to end their in office tyranny is to recall them,  Not every state has that procedure on the books, and voters in the 20 that do have found breaking up is hard to do. It’s only happene...

America has a serious problem. The Problem resides in Delaware but will be spending the next 3 years and a few months in Washington DC, where even though he is a serious problem he somehow managed to get elected President. Every president is a problem to somebody, because administrations policies usually help some group or groups and adversely affect others. So far the problems  policies have confused most of the nation, on the sub...

His name was Don La Fontaine, a professional announcer who made millions cornering the Movie Trailer market some years back. Had he lived, he’d probably be scaring us with this promo:

“Just when you thought it was safe to unmask..to raise a glass on a flight to Cleveland...comes the return of CO VID. It’s no match for bleach, or Trump and probably not Newsom---but now it’s back..and coming soon to a hospital near you..Should you get...

Anyone who was there and I was, cannot forget the horrors of 9-11. It was at once, among the most beautiful, crisp fall days one could behold, nice enough to numb New York briefly to the horror that would come.Gotham..at the height of a weekday rush hour is loud; a cacophony of assorted noise--traffic honking horns, a police whistle, pedestrian chatter, the sales pitch of street entrepreneur moving on any given day their allotment ...

It’s only one poll, but it’s a shocker. A survey of 11 hundred Californians, conducted by Surveys USA and The San Diego Union Tribune shows voters are not only poised to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, but by a wide margin. 49 percent want the Governor to Go, 40 percent want him to stay. That 11 percent of undecided voters could push Newsom out. 

In this 276 million dollar process, a bit less than 6 weeks away, voters are asked two qu...

I can’t say I rigidly obey every law on the books. Some are dumb. Others, just too tempting to break. Who among us on an empty freeway have defied the 55 mile per hour speed limit and edged up to 60 miles per hour or better? But the one law I don’t mess with is the one that seems to foil me anyway. 

Murphy’s law. Which basically states, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Usually at the worst possible time.  The other night, ...

Here we go again. 17 months after Co Vid 19 came roaring out of China--reportedly leaked from a lab whose research was partially being funded by the U-S, new cases are rising. Mandatory wearing of masks is coming back in Sacramento and a number of other California counties. The so-called infectious disease experts, who seem to change their view as often as most people change their underwear now warn CO VID 19 could be a constant un...

Yes, it really was 25 years ago that flight 800 was literally blown out of the sky.  230 people would perish that fateful day off Long Island and it was a horrific scene for many days.  It would take an additional 4 years to get any sort of conclusive closure, if you believe the final outcome of one of the most laborious tasks of reconstruction of any aviation disaster.  The story is told here with the journalist that spent all fou...