A well known billionaire bought up 24,000 acres of desert land between Buckeye and Tonopah about 5 years ago! He also bought 2,800 acres right in Buckeye. If you are like me you might be curious how much 24,000 acres of desert would cost. The answer is a whopping 80 million. Mt. Lemmon Holdings was […]
I love movies based on true to life stories. One of the best of these I have seen in a long time is “The Stand at Paxton County.” It is the true life story of a Dickinson, North Dakota, rancher, Gary Dassinger and his daughter, Missy. Missy was an Air Force Major stationed in Japan […]
A catalytic converter isn’t much to look at. To the untrained eye it looks a lot like a small rusty muffler. But, even though they aren’t much to look at they are filled with precious very expensive metals such as platinum, rhodium and palladium. Thieves cut them off and sell them for quick easy cash—a […]
One of the most enlightening radio programs I have ever heard was an interview of two college students who chose to live on the streets as homeless for 5 months as an experiment. “The idea had dropped into my brain one Sunday morning while I sat in church. The pastor was delivering a powerful sermon […]
In 1919, a young Army Lieutenant Colonel named Dwight D. Eisenhower took part in the Motor Transport Corps convoy that drove 3,251 miles between Washington D.C. and Oakland California. The mission was to determine the difficulties that military vehicles would have on a cross-country trip. They left from near the White House on July 7th […]
One of the most interesting and inspiring people in all of history I have ever studied is known to most as Harriet Tubman. I can’t get enough of watching shows about her and the Underground Railroad. As a retired engineer on a railroad who hated that job so much that I still have nightmares about […]
I am fascinated and terrified by the number of wrong way crashes here in the Valley. That just doesn’t happen every day in other places. This is not normal. That leads me to wonder, is it our highways, or our drivers or both. Phoenix is a big city—5th largest in the US, in fact, so […]
Most teens don’t wear trench coats and shoot fellow students, but adults have often been amazed at how teens can seem to be happy-go-lucky, well-adjusted, seemingly-normal people one minute and ranting, raving lunatics who are impossible to understand the next. The single most frustrating thing to parents of teens is the fact that they can […]
Our interstate highway system will never be considered “done”. Why is that so? It’s because as our country continues to grow, our highway system will need to grow with it. But what was begun in 1956 by President Eisenhower was considered “complete” August 10, 1990 when the final section of coast-to-coast I-10 (Santa Monica, California, […]
In Western Europe between Austria and Switzerland lies a sleepy little nation called Liechtenstein. The whole country is smaller than the city limits of Washington, DC, approx. 61 square miles. In 2020 the population was listed as 38,137. Liechtenstein has been a peace loving country which doesn’t even have a standing army. They depend on Switzerland […]
