I was listening to an interview with the lead singer of Green Day on NPR last week and it got me to thinking about music groups that do and don’t remain relevant. Green Day seems like a good band to me, they just came around slightly past the time I was listening to that type [...]

There will be a letter from Kurt Sharar in Thursday’s Daily Record, touching on this topic, but I thought I’d chip in a little early. Sharar’s letter addresses the notion that society is in the toilet because religion has been exorcised from the schools and that in the glory days of the 1940s and 1950s [...]

Those of you who read the Daily Record now know that those helicopters I’ve heard the past couple weeks and assumed to be the dreaded “black helicopters” employed by the U.N. for nefarious but never explained reasons were actually state Department of Natural Resources helicopters taking part in training for the upcoming fire season. Oh [...]

We live a few blocks from Kittitas Valley Community Hospital and can hear when the helicopters arrive and leave for medical transports. I haven’t heard that many lately, which is why I really noticed the heavy helicopter traffic at night these past few days. Although I haven’t checked the hospital calls that closely, I don’t [...]

I’m a little behind the curve on this one, but this past year I’ve become hooked on Pandora.com. Pandora is a website that allows you to build your own radio station. You select an artist and the website plays that group’s music plus music from similar artists. You can also add featured artist to expand [...]

Long time, no blog, but enough for the excuses. For those of you with children in school you may be interested in the Ellensburg School District 2010-11 calendar which is now posted on the district’s website. I should note that I actually participated on the district’s calendar committee (as a parent of a Lincoln child), [...]