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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 unless the hordes of unvaccinated get the shots.
In California, 53 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. A bit more than the national average, which is around 50 percent. That number has stubbornly held steady 7 months after the vaccine’s roll out, and a few months after the tiered distribution, based on age and susceptibility to Co Vid have run their course.
To those of us who have been vaccinated, this is frustrating to say the least. As a connoisseur of Common Sense, I’m having a hard time understanding the reasons behind this vexing national problem. Despite 600 thousand reported Co Vid deaths, some Americans aren’t getting the shot because they don’t see the Co Vid threat as real. Others--and I have spoken to some refuse to get the shot because of politics; most, hard core Republicans think the Co Vid crisis was made up by democrats as a Health Crisis coup hatched to remove Donald Trump from office, Others say they’ll be damned if they’re going to get a shot on orders of the government. There’s a minority--but it seems to be growing that either fear the vaccine..developed in record time may have long term side effects, like infertility, Or---and I love this one---the vaccine isn’t really a vaccine at all--but a vehicle to deliver small tracking devices, so Bill Gates and others can track our every move.
Bringing up the rear, poor folks who can’t afford transportation to a drug store, grocery store or clinic that provides free shots; and legion of 20 somethings who can’t be bothered getting the shot because they’re pretty much bullet proof--and even if they did get the virus, it wouldn’t be much worse than a mild case of the flu. They’ve had hangovers that were worse.
It’s hard to argue with a lot of this nonsense. But let’s give it a try. If the democrats and the chinese worked a deal to use a vaccine to oust Donald Trump, it’s tough to believe the conspirators would be so cold blooded to allow the collateral damage. More than half a million deaths in the U-S and 4 million world wide. If the virus doesn’t exist, how come it’s been reported in every country in the globe, no conspiracy has global legs. The Co Vid shot came so fast, there must be something wrong with it? Technology has moved at light speed in a couple of decades. Computers fly commercial jets, in the palm of our hand we have devices that do everything but our laundry--let alone phone calls. Medical science has led to the transplant of organs and machines that literally keep the dead alive until organs or transplanted or grieving family members can say goodbye. Oh yeah--AIDS--the scourge of the 80’s is no longer a death sentence. The list goes on. As for the government can’t make me argue, I liken that to the seat belt mandate. You can’t be forced to buckle up. If the cops catch you driving restraint free, you’ll get a ticket. Big Deal. But you might hurtle through the windshield if there’s a collision. Much bigger deal.
Can’t get a ride to the clinic or drug store. You manage to get groceries and medicine. You could and should find a way.
It’s true that in rare cases, some fully vaccinated Americans have acquired Co Vid and some have died. But the number is less than one percent. Extremely rare--and health officials say, not unexpected. No vaccine is perfect. But Vegas wouldn’t be on Covid at odds that 99 percent of people will be just fine. ...more at www.edcranescorner.com/blog-page/
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 unless the hordes of unvaccinated get the shots.
In California, 53 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. A bit more than the national average, which is around 50 percent. That number has stubbornly held steady 7 months after the vaccine’s roll out, and a few months after the tiered distribution, based on age and susceptibility to Co Vid have run their course.
To those of us who have been vaccinated, this is frustrating to say the least. As a connoisseur of Common Sense, I’m having a hard time understanding the reasons behind this vexing national problem. Despite 600 thousand reported Co Vid deaths, some Americans aren’t getting the shot because they don’t see the Co Vid threat as real. Others--and I have spoken to some refuse to get the shot because of politics; most, hard core Republicans think the Co Vid crisis was made up by democrats as a Health Crisis coup hatched to remove Donald Trump from office, Others say they’ll be damned if they’re going to get a shot on orders of the government. There’s a minority--but it seems to be growing that either fear the vaccine..developed in record time may have long term side effects, like infertility, Or---and I love this one---the vaccine isn’t really a vaccine at all--but a vehicle to deliver small tracking devices, so Bill Gates and others can track our every move.
Bringing up the rear, poor folks who can’t afford transportation to a drug store, grocery store or clinic that provides free shots; and legion of 20 somethings who can’t be bothered getting the shot because they’re pretty much bullet proof--and even if they did get the virus, it wouldn’t be much worse than a mild case of the flu. They’ve had hangovers that were worse.
It’s hard to argue with a lot of this nonsense. But let’s give it a try. If the democrats and the chinese worked a deal to use a vaccine to oust Donald Trump, it’s tough to believe the conspirators would be so cold blooded to allow the collateral damage. More than half a million deaths in the U-S and 4 million world wide. If the virus doesn’t exist, how come it’s been reported in every country in the globe, no conspiracy has global legs. The Co Vid shot came so fast, there must be something wrong with it? Technology has moved at light speed in a couple of decades. Computers fly commercial jets, in the palm of our hand we have devices that do everything but our laundry--let alone phone calls. Medical science has led to the transplant of organs and machines that literally keep the dead alive until organs or transplanted or grieving family members can say goodbye. Oh yeah--AIDS--the scourge of the 80’s is no longer a death sentence. The list goes on. As for the government can’t make me argue, I liken that to the seat belt mandate. You can’t be forced to buckle up. If the cops catch you driving restraint free, you’ll get a ticket. Big Deal. But you might hurtle through the windshield if there’s a collision. Much bigger deal.
Can’t get a ride to the clinic or drug store. You manage to get groceries and medicine. You could and should find a way.
It’s true that in rare cases, some fully vaccinated Americans have acquired Co Vid and some have died. But the number is less than one percent. Extremely rare--and health officials say, not unexpected. No vaccine is perfect. But Vegas wouldn’t be on Covid at odds that 99 percent of people will be just fine. ...more at www.edcranescorner.com/blog-page/
08/04/21 • 5 min
Crane's Corner: 9-15-21 A Big Win For Democracy
Crane's Corner
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 republican, so the outcome, a landslide vote to keep Democrat Newsom in office was pretty much along registered voter lines, and by all accounts a very fair election.
That's good for all of us. But if Gavin Newsom takes this as a resounding referendum in support of the job he’s doing, Newsom is a fool. A lot of democrats have problems with Newsom. He’s arrogant, personifying the rules are for thee not for me to knock on many politicians. His administration has yet to seriously address the state's biggest problems, forestry and fires, homelessness and the brazen billion dollar robbery of the EDD by convicted state prisoners and their accomplices on the outside. Not to mention a moratorium on the death penalty and the early relese of hardened criminals, both of which defy the views of the people who either elected Newsom or didn’t but have to put up with him. The vote it seems was less about love of Gavin Newsom and more about the fear of Larry Elder, who stepped into the race a few weeks back and energized both sides, The conservative radio talk show host became an instant favorite of the recall Newsom contingent, but his hard right views on everything from race and abortion to covid vaccines and the minimum wage galvanized the state’s majority party.
Elder, who got 46 percent of Newsom’s would be challenger, now calls himself a former radio host and suggests he’ll seek a re-match against Newsom when he’s up for re-election next year, But if that scenario plays out, it almost guarantees 4 more years of Newsom. California’s way too blue for any of Elder’s positions, but state republicans don’t seem interested in backing any other republican now on the scene. Disgruntled state republicans seem to have two choices. Find a more moderate choice that most republicans and democrats fed up with Newsom can get behind..or as a growing number of Californians have already done...Move out of state.
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 republican, so the outcome, a landslide vote to keep Democrat Newsom in office was pretty much along registered voter lines, and by all accounts a very fair election.
That's good for all of us. But if Gavin Newsom takes this as a resounding referendum in support of the job he’s doing, Newsom is a fool. A lot of democrats have problems with Newsom. He’s arrogant, personifying the rules are for thee not for me to knock on many politicians. His administration has yet to seriously address the state's biggest problems, forestry and fires, homelessness and the brazen billion dollar robbery of the EDD by convicted state prisoners and their accomplices on the outside. Not to mention a moratorium on the death penalty and the early relese of hardened criminals, both of which defy the views of the people who either elected Newsom or didn’t but have to put up with him. The vote it seems was less about love of Gavin Newsom and more about the fear of Larry Elder, who stepped into the race a few weeks back and energized both sides, The conservative radio talk show host became an instant favorite of the recall Newsom contingent, but his hard right views on everything from race and abortion to covid vaccines and the minimum wage galvanized the state’s majority party.
Elder, who got 46 percent of Newsom’s would be challenger, now calls himself a former radio host and suggests he’ll seek a re-match against Newsom when he’s up for re-election next year, But if that scenario plays out, it almost guarantees 4 more years of Newsom. California’s way too blue for any of Elder’s positions, but state republicans don’t seem interested in backing any other republican now on the scene. Disgruntled state republicans seem to have two choices. Find a more moderate choice that most republicans and democrats fed up with Newsom can get behind..or as a growing number of Californians have already done...Move out of state.
09/17/21 • 3 min
Crane's Corner: 9-16-21 California Screamin
Crane's Corner
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 deep south hard.
Maybe it’s because we live here and are too close to it’s problems, but California seems to be the unhappiest state in the Union. It’s been a record fire season, which sadly has become an annual event. Criminals are being released early and reoffending, in some cases committing vicious assaults and murder, crimes worse than the felonies that put them behind bars in the first place.
It was a fair vote, but California now retains Governor Newsom, a politician who has done pretty much what he wants, regardless of public sentiment, while failing to adequately address the state's biggest problems. From Amador to Anaheim, drought and future water supplies are a concern and while California is among the states with the highest percentage of vaccinations, Co Vid is making a serious comeback, with even those inoculated subject to infection.
Inflation, though it seems to be moderating across the country, has hit California especially hard. The highest gas prices in the country are getting ridiculous, $5 dollars a gallon in the big cities, close to it in other parts of the state. Inflation is noticeable during every trip to a grocery store or restaurant. The employment situation is truly bizarre. The statewide unemployment rate is close to 8 percent, among the highest in the country, yet it seems every sector of our economy is looking for workers. Generous jobless benefits and co vid induced rent moratoriums effectively invite would-be workers to stay home, with an entitlement mentality setting in.
SMUD reports many customers, while enjoying free rent, are failing to pay their electric and gas bills. Intense summer heat and daily smog and smoke from seasonal fires are keeping many from enjoying California’s natural beauty and vast recreation opportunities. Living here has ceased to be fun, and the daily cost of living and fears about the future make things worse. The Golden State in many respects has been tarnished. The idea that California can bounce back any time soon ....File that one under Fools Gold.
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 deep south hard.
Maybe it’s because we live here and are too close to it’s problems, but California seems to be the unhappiest state in the Union. It’s been a record fire season, which sadly has become an annual event. Criminals are being released early and reoffending, in some cases committing vicious assaults and murder, crimes worse than the felonies that put them behind bars in the first place.
It was a fair vote, but California now retains Governor Newsom, a politician who has done pretty much what he wants, regardless of public sentiment, while failing to adequately address the state's biggest problems. From Amador to Anaheim, drought and future water supplies are a concern and while California is among the states with the highest percentage of vaccinations, Co Vid is making a serious comeback, with even those inoculated subject to infection.
Inflation, though it seems to be moderating across the country, has hit California especially hard. The highest gas prices in the country are getting ridiculous, $5 dollars a gallon in the big cities, close to it in other parts of the state. Inflation is noticeable during every trip to a grocery store or restaurant. The employment situation is truly bizarre. The statewide unemployment rate is close to 8 percent, among the highest in the country, yet it seems every sector of our economy is looking for workers. Generous jobless benefits and co vid induced rent moratoriums effectively invite would-be workers to stay home, with an entitlement mentality setting in.
SMUD reports many customers, while enjoying free rent, are failing to pay their electric and gas bills. Intense summer heat and daily smog and smoke from seasonal fires are keeping many from enjoying California’s natural beauty and vast recreation opportunities. Living here has ceased to be fun, and the daily cost of living and fears about the future make things worse. The Golden State in many respects has been tarnished. The idea that California can bounce back any time soon ....File that one under Fools Gold.
09/17/21 • 3 min
Crane's Corner: 9-14-21 Shirking From Home
Crane's Corner
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 broadcast schedule demands content of a certain length at a certain time. But when a deadline is flexible, battling the urge to take a long lunch, watch some tv, surf the web do some work around the house is a daily challenge.
But I can relate to some of the horror stories I hear from my friends in management jobs around Sacramento. What began as a necessity---keeping people at home to prevent the spread of Co Vid 19--has in some cases turned into a major headache. As businesses allow working from home on occasion--workers are taking the perk of flexibility and turning into a license to goof off--staying home--but not working from home...or as some managers tell me...not even staying home or working from home....taking the day off without using a paid vacation or sick day--to due something else.
Unless the office mandates a check in zoom call---it can be hard to track a worker down. Many people--especially younger workers have abandoned that hard wired home phone and can only be reached by mobile phone...which as the name suggests...goes wherever its owner takes it. So that worker you think is at home in Roseville, could be partying in Lake Tahoe or chilling at the beach in Santa Cruz. Some workers aren’t even pretending to be working. One friend told me that a newly hired subordinate called in one morning to say she’d be working from home because her pet wasn’t eating much and the pet store carrying a more suitable brand didn’t open till 10 am. Why come in one hour late when you can blow off the whole day. Some workers are actually more productive, knowing they can get up early, work like the devil from 6 am till noon...then have the rest of the day to themselves. That of course takes discipline, and a workload that doesn’t include communicating with people in different time zones or even local workers only available during regular business hours.
It will be interesting to say how this all shakes out, if Co Vid eventually dies out. Will companies think twice about paying all that overhead if people are just as productive at home, and continue to allow the work from home option? Or, as I suspect, companies will allow it but become much more vigilant in policing home workers, lest they become home shirkers--maybe through face timing calls or home based zoom calls.
It’s not just the worker bees you have to worry about. A few weeks back I invited a friend, a manager with a lot of responsibilities , to play a round of golf early one Friday morning. I figured he was either taking the day off or working a half day---heading to the office after we finished 18. Apparently he planned neither. He didn’t tell anyone anything. Halfway through the front 9 his cell phone began ringing. He’d drop his club, jog to the woods or just off the fairway. It was working fine until he tried to swing and chat at the same time. An errant shot prompted him to scream FORE, Not only was he busted, he was so mad at himself his game went to hell, and he rushed off in shame as soon as the round was over.
Golf is a game of honor, but if you shirk your duties at the office, the Golf Gods will find out and you’ll be wishing you never left the cube farm.
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 broadcast schedule demands content of a certain length at a certain time. But when a deadline is flexible, battling the urge to take a long lunch, watch some tv, surf the web do some work around the house is a daily challenge.
But I can relate to some of the horror stories I hear from my friends in management jobs around Sacramento. What began as a necessity---keeping people at home to prevent the spread of Co Vid 19--has in some cases turned into a major headache. As businesses allow working from home on occasion--workers are taking the perk of flexibility and turning into a license to goof off--staying home--but not working from home...or as some managers tell me...not even staying home or working from home....taking the day off without using a paid vacation or sick day--to due something else.
Unless the office mandates a check in zoom call---it can be hard to track a worker down. Many people--especially younger workers have abandoned that hard wired home phone and can only be reached by mobile phone...which as the name suggests...goes wherever its owner takes it. So that worker you think is at home in Roseville, could be partying in Lake Tahoe or chilling at the beach in Santa Cruz. Some workers aren’t even pretending to be working. One friend told me that a newly hired subordinate called in one morning to say she’d be working from home because her pet wasn’t eating much and the pet store carrying a more suitable brand didn’t open till 10 am. Why come in one hour late when you can blow off the whole day. Some workers are actually more productive, knowing they can get up early, work like the devil from 6 am till noon...then have the rest of the day to themselves. That of course takes discipline, and a workload that doesn’t include communicating with people in different time zones or even local workers only available during regular business hours.
It will be interesting to say how this all shakes out, if Co Vid eventually dies out. Will companies think twice about paying all that overhead if people are just as productive at home, and continue to allow the work from home option? Or, as I suspect, companies will allow it but become much more vigilant in policing home workers, lest they become home shirkers--maybe through face timing calls or home based zoom calls.
It’s not just the worker bees you have to worry about. A few weeks back I invited a friend, a manager with a lot of responsibilities , to play a round of golf early one Friday morning. I figured he was either taking the day off or working a half day---heading to the office after we finished 18. Apparently he planned neither. He didn’t tell anyone anything. Halfway through the front 9 his cell phone began ringing. He’d drop his club, jog to the woods or just off the fairway. It was working fine until he tried to swing and chat at the same time. An errant shot prompted him to scream FORE, Not only was he busted, he was so mad at himself his game went to hell, and he rushed off in shame as soon as the round was over.
Golf is a game of honor, but if you shirk your duties at the office, the Golf Gods will find out and you’ll be wishing you never left the cube farm.
09/17/21 • 4 min
Crane's Corner: 9-8-21 Amazon Goes Old School
Crane's Corner
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 in brick and mortar retail stores.
You remember those costly ruins of 20th century retailing before Bill Gates and Steve Jobs figured out a better way? The business as usual plan that put some of America’s retail reliables, Lord and Taylor, Montgomery Ward, Sears, J Crew--just to name a few. Stores that were on the ropes in 2019 but knocked out in the Pandemic of 2020. It’s been the Bataan Death March with an on going clearance sale. A sad trend that turned a day trip to the Mall into Night At The Museum.
Why Bezos? Why Amazon? Why now? Well, there is much to be said about getting anything you want, at a more than fair price, delivered in time for whatever and when ever it’s needed---especially if you live out on the country or are stuck in some kind of viral shutdown. But, ya gotta admit there is something about the look the feel the tradition of shopping. Of seeing goods on display, The tool you didn’t know you need till it turned up in the Kenmore section of Sears. Or the Sport Coat you covet and just have to try on. Or that perfume she wore? Can’t remember the name, but if i get a whiff at the counter I’ll know.
Thats whats missing from our digital shopping carts and computer screens. The experience. You can surf prices while brushing your teeth or feeding your goats like the Amazon TV spots point out, but sometimes money really isn’t the object. Come on it’s the experience, right. It was until life and Co Vid and hand held devices made us lazy.
Bezos clearly wants to bring that experience back..where possible. But he’ll be smart about it. The Amazon store will be a quarter the size of a typical 100 thousand square foot Macy’s, featuring name brands but plenty of Amazon’s Private label goods..and count on clothes. Amazon sells more clothing than Wal Mart or anyone else. And it might just be a way for Amazon to get the laundry done. The online giant’s business model is to buy from legions of Mom and Pop vendors..many of them the Wall Street Journal reports stealing the swag from bigger retailers and selling at a 100 percent profit to Amazon,
Retailers like CVS and Target are taking notice. They’re among the ubiquitous retailers socked with 45 billion dollars in losses, flying off the shelves and out the door in places like San Francisco, where brazen shoplifters know cops can’t be bothered, when boosting anything under 900 bucks is a mere misdemeanor. A trend so bad Walgreens, and other retailers are closing their crime scenes by the bay.
Jeff Bezos may be taking some risk here, but the richest man in the world didn’t get that way by being reckless. Pick me out a nice blazer,,,
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 in brick and mortar retail stores.
You remember those costly ruins of 20th century retailing before Bill Gates and Steve Jobs figured out a better way? The business as usual plan that put some of America’s retail reliables, Lord and Taylor, Montgomery Ward, Sears, J Crew--just to name a few. Stores that were on the ropes in 2019 but knocked out in the Pandemic of 2020. It’s been the Bataan Death March with an on going clearance sale. A sad trend that turned a day trip to the Mall into Night At The Museum.
Why Bezos? Why Amazon? Why now? Well, there is much to be said about getting anything you want, at a more than fair price, delivered in time for whatever and when ever it’s needed---especially if you live out on the country or are stuck in some kind of viral shutdown. But, ya gotta admit there is something about the look the feel the tradition of shopping. Of seeing goods on display, The tool you didn’t know you need till it turned up in the Kenmore section of Sears. Or the Sport Coat you covet and just have to try on. Or that perfume she wore? Can’t remember the name, but if i get a whiff at the counter I’ll know.
Thats whats missing from our digital shopping carts and computer screens. The experience. You can surf prices while brushing your teeth or feeding your goats like the Amazon TV spots point out, but sometimes money really isn’t the object. Come on it’s the experience, right. It was until life and Co Vid and hand held devices made us lazy.
Bezos clearly wants to bring that experience back..where possible. But he’ll be smart about it. The Amazon store will be a quarter the size of a typical 100 thousand square foot Macy’s, featuring name brands but plenty of Amazon’s Private label goods..and count on clothes. Amazon sells more clothing than Wal Mart or anyone else. And it might just be a way for Amazon to get the laundry done. The online giant’s business model is to buy from legions of Mom and Pop vendors..many of them the Wall Street Journal reports stealing the swag from bigger retailers and selling at a 100 percent profit to Amazon,
Retailers like CVS and Target are taking notice. They’re among the ubiquitous retailers socked with 45 billion dollars in losses, flying off the shelves and out the door in places like San Francisco, where brazen shoplifters know cops can’t be bothered, when boosting anything under 900 bucks is a mere misdemeanor. A trend so bad Walgreens, and other retailers are closing their crime scenes by the bay.
Jeff Bezos may be taking some risk here, but the richest man in the world didn’t get that way by being reckless. Pick me out a nice blazer,,,
09/15/21 • 4 min
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 challenge in our near future be it interest rates, inflation or even a dip in the overall economy? We cover a lot of ground with an outlook that's probably a realistic view of where things are headed.
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 challenge in our near future be it interest rates, inflation or even a dip in the overall economy? We cover a lot of ground with an outlook that's probably a realistic view of where things are headed.
09/20/21 • 32 min
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, actually the early hours of the next day, Murphy hit me big time, and I was not alone.
Come think of it, even though I had nothing to do with what unfolded, I probably played right into Murph’s hands.
Last week I got some devastating news that a close family member, my cousin Mike, had died unexpectedly. There was no indecision, I was going to Mike’s hometown for the funeral. But there were a few challenges. Mike’s arrangements called for a viewing Tuesday night and a funeral and burial Wednesday morning. As I live in California and Mike died in Pennsylvania, there were some obvious travel logistics. My schedule, which called for an important commitment to be in Anaheim Thursday night, was another consideration. I thought I had it figured out. A Monday night red eye would get me into Philadelphia, a 90 minute drive from Mike’s hometown, around 9 AM, more than enough time to get there, take a nap and be right on time for the Tuesday night wake. Wednesday after the funeral there would be ample time to get back to the airport, return the rental car and make a 5 PM flight back, which would have me back on the ground at Sac International around 10:30 local time.
The plan did have a few variables out of my control--and as it happened they sent the whole trip out of control.
Monday night, I arrived at the airport just after 8 PM---plenty of time for a 10:08 departure. I had heard something about bad weather delaying some flights, but that was hours ago in Texas and Florida. The weather in California was clear and hot..nothing to delay a jet.
Uh Oh there on the board was the beginning of the end. The flight was delayed until 11. Which meant I would have a dicey connection in Charlotte, more like 45 minutes instead of the planned 2 hours. Well we didn’t board until 11:30 which only made things tricker. I could see gate agents, coming and going, flight attendants whispering, even ramp agents conferring with the cockpit crew. Then came something I’ve never seen in all my years of travel. The Captain said, much as he tried he could not summon two fresh pilots, a problem because he and the First Officer were running out of legal flight time, having been delayed by weather all day. And because they had about two hours of time and the flight to Carolina was 4 hours and change--this flight was cancelled.
Now what. What had begun perfectly last night...believe it or not I was all alone walking through security--was turning into a jet age nightmare. We were told to simultaneously claim our luggage and get in line to be re-booked. By the time I retrieved my bag, I was about number 110 in line to be rebooked. By then there were few options..none of them good that would get me to Philly on time. While on line, I checked out the airlines web site. If I hurried I could make a 12:40 departure for Dallas and a connection to Philly arriving at 3 PM. Not ideal, but better than nothing. Bag in hand, I raced to security..where I was questioned as to why I was going through for the second time in 4 and a half hours...I explained and was waved through..but the bottle of wine I had purchased at a shop past security was seized. It was legal when I bought it--dangerous contraband hours later. I sacrificed the Petite Sirah for the greater good. Racing to the gate I was told I could get a middle seat to Dallas but the second flight to Philly was sold out... more at www.edcranescorner.com/blog-page/
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, actually the early hours of the next day, Murphy hit me big time, and I was not alone.
Come think of it, even though I had nothing to do with what unfolded, I probably played right into Murph’s hands.
Last week I got some devastating news that a close family member, my cousin Mike, had died unexpectedly. There was no indecision, I was going to Mike’s hometown for the funeral. But there were a few challenges. Mike’s arrangements called for a viewing Tuesday night and a funeral and burial Wednesday morning. As I live in California and Mike died in Pennsylvania, there were some obvious travel logistics. My schedule, which called for an important commitment to be in Anaheim Thursday night, was another consideration. I thought I had it figured out. A Monday night red eye would get me into Philadelphia, a 90 minute drive from Mike’s hometown, around 9 AM, more than enough time to get there, take a nap and be right on time for the Tuesday night wake. Wednesday after the funeral there would be ample time to get back to the airport, return the rental car and make a 5 PM flight back, which would have me back on the ground at Sac International around 10:30 local time.
The plan did have a few variables out of my control--and as it happened they sent the whole trip out of control.
Monday night, I arrived at the airport just after 8 PM---plenty of time for a 10:08 departure. I had heard something about bad weather delaying some flights, but that was hours ago in Texas and Florida. The weather in California was clear and hot..nothing to delay a jet.
Uh Oh there on the board was the beginning of the end. The flight was delayed until 11. Which meant I would have a dicey connection in Charlotte, more like 45 minutes instead of the planned 2 hours. Well we didn’t board until 11:30 which only made things tricker. I could see gate agents, coming and going, flight attendants whispering, even ramp agents conferring with the cockpit crew. Then came something I’ve never seen in all my years of travel. The Captain said, much as he tried he could not summon two fresh pilots, a problem because he and the First Officer were running out of legal flight time, having been delayed by weather all day. And because they had about two hours of time and the flight to Carolina was 4 hours and change--this flight was cancelled.
Now what. What had begun perfectly last night...believe it or not I was all alone walking through security--was turning into a jet age nightmare. We were told to simultaneously claim our luggage and get in line to be re-booked. By the time I retrieved my bag, I was about number 110 in line to be rebooked. By then there were few options..none of them good that would get me to Philly on time. While on line, I checked out the airlines web site. If I hurried I could make a 12:40 departure for Dallas and a connection to Philly arriving at 3 PM. Not ideal, but better than nothing. Bag in hand, I raced to security..where I was questioned as to why I was going through for the second time in 4 and a half hours...I explained and was waved through..but the bottle of wine I had purchased at a shop past security was seized. It was legal when I bought it--dangerous contraband hours later. I sacrificed the Petite Sirah for the greater good. Racing to the gate I was told I could get a middle seat to Dallas but the second flight to Philly was sold out... more at www.edcranescorner.com/blog-page/
08/04/21 • 5 min
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 four years covering the story to it's end, Pat Milton. She also authored the book, "In the Blink of an Eye" which tells her story of covering the crash over the four years it took to come to a final verdict. For more on Crane's Corner, visit www.edcranescorner.com
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 four years covering the story to it's end, Pat Milton. She also authored the book, "In the Blink of an Eye" which tells her story of covering the crash over the four years it took to come to a final verdict. For more on Crane's Corner, visit www.edcranescorner.com
08/04/21 • 34 min
Crane's Corner: 7-21-21 Newsom's a Nuisance
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Unlike some people I know, and a growing number of Californians I have not been hell bent on recalling Gavin Newsom as Governor. He’s a show boat, he’s hopelessly liberal and yes during the pandemic he overstepped his authority with a 15 month state of emergency, which gave him the juice to make some really questionable decisions. Like closing schools, churches and small businesses to in theory halt the pandemic, while allowing grocery stores, big box stores, liquor stores and select businesses with lots of foot traffic to stay open, in theory spreading Co Vid.
I wasn’t hell bent on recalling the Governor because the state is mega blue and the odds were that another left leaning idiot would take over, so why waste the energy? But no democrats have dared jump on the recall carousel and the odds of a recall measure passing, once extremely unlikely, are now unlikely but not impossible. As each day goes by Newsom is throwing money at some group of some program that is blatantly a suck up effort to buy the support of certain Californians, and that is irritating, What he did the other day was somewhere between stupid and dangerous.
In announcing he would spend 12 billion more dollars on the seemingly endless pot of tax dollars on the seemingly unsolvable homeless problem in California, Newsom at news conference started babbling about the California dream, saying it’s not over, and that California is such a warm, caring place he invited homeless people from all over the country to come to California to be taken care of,
This wasn’t one of these tiresome political sports wagers, where the Governor bets some Crabs and wine against 10 pounds of barbecue that the 49ers will beat the Kansas City Chiefs in The Big game. This is the Governors mouth and ego writing checks he can’t cash. It’s insane. For starters, California has arguably had the worst homeless problem of any state for years. An estimated 151 thousand on the streets of Sacramento, LA, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose. But you’ll find some in Roseville and Rancho and Stockton. And the numbers keep growing. So it’s ludicrous that California with 20 percent of the nation's homeless can adequately house and feed the other 80 percent, some 416 thousand.
For starters, the cost of housing is among the biggest factors in why people become homeless, and California has the highest costs in the country and Newsom’s done little to change that except to extend a pandemic related rent moratorium that will only leave more people homeless when it expires. Inflation has hit California as hard as anywhere else in the country, squeezing the budgets of low and so called middle class wage earners, who have to choose between making the rent or buying groceries and living paycheck to paycheck and one big expense away from disaster.
Charity begins at home, and if we can fix our massive homeless problem that would be huge, but until we do the idea of exacerbating the problem by importing the homeless is reckless and moronic. And yes, worthy of a recall.
Unlike some people I know, and a growing number of Californians I have not been hell bent on recalling Gavin Newsom as Governor. He’s a show boat, he’s hopelessly liberal and yes during the pandemic he overstepped his authority with a 15 month state of emergency, which gave him the juice to make some really questionable decisions. Like closing schools, churches and small businesses to in theory halt the pandemic, while allowing grocery stores, big box stores, liquor stores and select businesses with lots of foot traffic to stay open, in theory spreading Co Vid.
I wasn’t hell bent on recalling the Governor because the state is mega blue and the odds were that another left leaning idiot would take over, so why waste the energy? But no democrats have dared jump on the recall carousel and the odds of a recall measure passing, once extremely unlikely, are now unlikely but not impossible. As each day goes by Newsom is throwing money at some group of some program that is blatantly a suck up effort to buy the support of certain Californians, and that is irritating, What he did the other day was somewhere between stupid and dangerous.
In announcing he would spend 12 billion more dollars on the seemingly endless pot of tax dollars on the seemingly unsolvable homeless problem in California, Newsom at news conference started babbling about the California dream, saying it’s not over, and that California is such a warm, caring place he invited homeless people from all over the country to come to California to be taken care of,
This wasn’t one of these tiresome political sports wagers, where the Governor bets some Crabs and wine against 10 pounds of barbecue that the 49ers will beat the Kansas City Chiefs in The Big game. This is the Governors mouth and ego writing checks he can’t cash. It’s insane. For starters, California has arguably had the worst homeless problem of any state for years. An estimated 151 thousand on the streets of Sacramento, LA, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose. But you’ll find some in Roseville and Rancho and Stockton. And the numbers keep growing. So it’s ludicrous that California with 20 percent of the nation's homeless can adequately house and feed the other 80 percent, some 416 thousand.
For starters, the cost of housing is among the biggest factors in why people become homeless, and California has the highest costs in the country and Newsom’s done little to change that except to extend a pandemic related rent moratorium that will only leave more people homeless when it expires. Inflation has hit California as hard as anywhere else in the country, squeezing the budgets of low and so called middle class wage earners, who have to choose between making the rent or buying groceries and living paycheck to paycheck and one big expense away from disaster.
Charity begins at home, and if we can fix our massive homeless problem that would be huge, but until we do the idea of exacerbating the problem by importing the homeless is reckless and moronic. And yes, worthy of a recall.
07/22/21 • 4 min
Crane's Corner: 4-29-21 Media-Ocrity
Crane's Corner
Joe Biden is a little confused. Apparently he mistakes the U-S Treasury for the overdraft feature that comes with his and Jill’s joint checking account. The government is operating with a 3 trillion dollar budget, but in one hundred days, Joe’s agreed to spend almost 2 trillion dollars for Covid relief, nearly 3 trillion for infrastructure repair, and last night another 1 point 8 trillion dollars, for the American Family plan, which sounds like a step up from Basic Cable, but is really a way to indoctrinate little Americans into socialism via all expenses paid pre school, where they’ll learn that every white male in history except FDR and the Kennedy boys were evil and as long as you vote democrat you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
As a card carrying member of the media for 40 years, I’m rather ashamed of my profession. Biden’s spending spree--the numbers and where the dough is going, is being unchallenged by the media. They accept at face value that President Robin Hood is giving to the poor by taking from the rich, through higher taxes on the richest Americans and corporations. Ignoring what history has taught us, that the rich will put their money into tax shelters and offshore accounts and corporations will re incorporate somewhere else and or cut jobs---all of which backfires on Biden twice. The initial spending isn’t covered by taxes and the government will have to spend more to replace lost wages with jobless benefits, welfare, food stamps and more.
Now if Donald Trump had tried to play Santa Claus early in his term, the media would be tripping over one another to point out such foolishness.
Funny how everything Joe does is good for the country and everything Trump did was just this side of a felony.
Now I’ll stipulate that Trump has an ego just a little smaller than the Grand Canyon and that he has the morals of an alley cat.
But the guy got some stuff done. Like delivering a Covid killer in...well warp speed. He pretty much shut down the noise coming from the guy with the bad hair cut in North Korea. He took out Iran’s most prominent nuclear scientist, putting the mullah’s two favorite projects, building a nuclear bomb and killing Americans, on back order. He made America energy independent, rattling the sheiks and trimming their disposable income, cash they could use to hire suicide jet jockeys to blow up American skyscrapers. Oh and before Covid he had everybody’s 401 k appreciating and unemployment under 4 percent.
The media-ocrity never was much for history. Slamming Trump for his handling of Covid, they didn’t bother to check how Woodrow Wilson handled the Spanish flu epidemic. He didn’t. He ignored it, too busy getting Americans killed in World War I, Wilson did nothing as 600 thousand Americans perished from Spanish Flu. Twice the pandemic death toll from Covid under Trump, but ignore it....Woody was a Democrat.
If Trump announced a cure for cancer--the media’s headline would scream...Trump puts thousands of doctors out of work. But while Biden continues to spend us into recession or worse....all you get from the media is a smile and a golf clap.
Joe Biden is a little confused. Apparently he mistakes the U-S Treasury for the overdraft feature that comes with his and Jill’s joint checking account. The government is operating with a 3 trillion dollar budget, but in one hundred days, Joe’s agreed to spend almost 2 trillion dollars for Covid relief, nearly 3 trillion for infrastructure repair, and last night another 1 point 8 trillion dollars, for the American Family plan, which sounds like a step up from Basic Cable, but is really a way to indoctrinate little Americans into socialism via all expenses paid pre school, where they’ll learn that every white male in history except FDR and the Kennedy boys were evil and as long as you vote democrat you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
As a card carrying member of the media for 40 years, I’m rather ashamed of my profession. Biden’s spending spree--the numbers and where the dough is going, is being unchallenged by the media. They accept at face value that President Robin Hood is giving to the poor by taking from the rich, through higher taxes on the richest Americans and corporations. Ignoring what history has taught us, that the rich will put their money into tax shelters and offshore accounts and corporations will re incorporate somewhere else and or cut jobs---all of which backfires on Biden twice. The initial spending isn’t covered by taxes and the government will have to spend more to replace lost wages with jobless benefits, welfare, food stamps and more.
Now if Donald Trump had tried to play Santa Claus early in his term, the media would be tripping over one another to point out such foolishness.
Funny how everything Joe does is good for the country and everything Trump did was just this side of a felony.
Now I’ll stipulate that Trump has an ego just a little smaller than the Grand Canyon and that he has the morals of an alley cat.
But the guy got some stuff done. Like delivering a Covid killer in...well warp speed. He pretty much shut down the noise coming from the guy with the bad hair cut in North Korea. He took out Iran’s most prominent nuclear scientist, putting the mullah’s two favorite projects, building a nuclear bomb and killing Americans, on back order. He made America energy independent, rattling the sheiks and trimming their disposable income, cash they could use to hire suicide jet jockeys to blow up American skyscrapers. Oh and before Covid he had everybody’s 401 k appreciating and unemployment under 4 percent.
The media-ocrity never was much for history. Slamming Trump for his handling of Covid, they didn’t bother to check how Woodrow Wilson handled the Spanish flu epidemic. He didn’t. He ignored it, too busy getting Americans killed in World War I, Wilson did nothing as 600 thousand Americans perished from Spanish Flu. Twice the pandemic death toll from Covid under Trump, but ignore it....Woody was a Democrat.
If Trump announced a cure for cancer--the media’s headline would scream...Trump puts thousands of doctors out of work. But while Biden continues to spend us into recession or worse....all you get from the media is a smile and a golf clap.
04/29/21 • 4 min
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