Voting machine

I’m in the process of obtaining my Real ID — having waited almost until the deadline in May — and found I had to go to the Clerk-Recorder’s office in search of a copy of my birth certificate. When I had finished and was about to leave, I noticed a display of voting machines along one wall; the largest of […]

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Second-hand band

You don’t have to look very hard in the vicinity of Folsom’s historic Sutter Street to find quite a lot of beautiful musical instruments hoping for a second (or third, or fourth?) chance at life. Seeing them makes me wish I was a musician and could rescue every one of these treasures. Here are just a few of the instruments […]

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