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News, Views, Tales and Trivia from an award winning career journalist. Crane’s Corner, the hugely popular feature on NewsRadio KFBK is now a podcast. The Crane’s Corner Podcast will feature Ed’s take on news and comment happening around Northern California, as well as, the national stories that just can’t be passed up. Entertaining, informative, and balanced, something that’s as rare in today’s media landscape as a 20 game Kings winning streak. The familiar short form Crane’s Corner News and Comment will be available three times weekly on Tuesday’s, Wednesday’s and Thursday’s. Crane’s Corner full-length podcasts will feature long-form interviews on today’s trends. Ed Crane is a unique story teller, an experienced journalist, who has spent a career in local, and network radio and television and has covered some of the biggest stories of the last four decades.CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, three local radio stations, one TV station, Comstock’s and Sacramento Magazines and The National Business Post have all been recipients of his work. He covered the OJ Simpson Trial, the 9-11 attacks, Blackouts in NY City, politics in Sacramento and he’s been blessed by The Pope, screamed at by Bobby Knight and thrown out of an office by Tommy Lasorda. He’s flown Air Force One for a story, ridden a Greyhound Bus for another, and chartered a boat to describe live, on scene, the sad, depressing debris field spread by the crash of Flight 800 over the waters off Long Island.If you have an appreciation for a well-told story, come equipped with a sense of humor and a moral compass and you'll enjoy Crane’s Corner. For more information, visit www.edcranescorner.com The Crane’s Corner Podcast is a production of Multipoint Content Strategies and Hear Me Now Studio. Executive Producer, Jeff Holden.
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I suppose the cost would be prohibitive, but I’ve come to the conclusion that the United States would be better served by ringing in the borders, not with any kind of fencing but a large padded wall...the kind they have in hospital psych wards and Mental Institutions, because as a nation we are going nuts. Yes, the Pandemic was a game changer. Thanks to politicians and Dr. Flip Flop--er Fauci, we shut down the economy and the schools, made everyone put on a mask and pretty much wrote of...
Put a fork in Donald Trump. He’s done. The beginning of the end, a press release from the Office of The New York State Attorney General noting that the civil investigation into The Trump Organization, that's about a month old will be evolving into a criminal probe. The press release did not give further details but suggested a parallel investigation with the Manhattan DA into the Trump Organization’s banking activities. According to one source, Trump over valued the price of assets to obtain ...
Sacramento County is going to be looking for a new Sheriff in 2022 as current Sheriff Scott Jones seeks a Congressional seat. After 12 years as Sheriff and 33 years with the force, he's looking for something different. His endorsed replacement is Jim Barnes, a 22 year veteran with the Sacramento County Sheriffs department. Join our conversation as I talk with Jim about his motivation for the job, his interests and what he thinks he brings to the table. Why is he a grea...
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, i...
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...
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...
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 ce...
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 co...
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 significant criminal record. 51 year old Troy Davis had a serious...
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. That's not only a problem for them--it’s a problem for us...
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? You want to defend a woman's right to choose. I’d rather defend ...
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 the need on display. Nugget is hiring, So is Costco. CVS want...
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 powerful beverage that has a number of health benefits. According to W...
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 a pandemic. China, and those it bought off at The World Healt...
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 happened twice. North Dakota voters sent Lynn Frazier packing in...
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 subject of CO Vid 19, they’ve angered the energy industry an...
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 a booster shot from Pfizer--or throw down 2 or 3 from Jose C...
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 of newspapers, umbrellas, counterfeit scarves, watches, and ba...
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 questions. Should Newsom be recalled, and if that carries,...
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 hi...
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