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Crane's Corner
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.
Episodes
71 episodes
Episode 10: Jim Barnes On Why He is the Choice for Sacramento County Sheriff.
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 ...
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Episode 9: Talking Sacramento Real Estate with Terry Knight.
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 f...
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Crane's Corner: 9-15-21 A Big Win For Democracy
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 dif...
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Crane's Corner: 9-16-21 California Screamin
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...
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Crane's Corner: 9-14-21 Shirking From Home
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 wor...
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Crane's Corner: 9-8-21 Amazon Goes Old School
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...
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Crane's Corner: 9-7-21 Murder in Land Park
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 every...
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Crane's Corner: 9-2-21 Secretary of Hypocrisy
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 supporte...
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Crane's Corner: 9-1-21 The Great Covid Con
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 ye...
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Crane's Corner: 8-31-21 Pandemic Profit Plundering
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” wi...
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Crane's Corner: 8-26-21 A Cup A Day
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 an...
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Crane's Corner: 8-25-21 Favorites Run Out of the Money
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 underl...
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Crane's Corner: 8-24-21 Prevent Offense
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 on...
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Crane's Corner: 8-19-21 America Problem
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 ...
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Crane's Corner: 8-18-21 Covid 2.0
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...
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Crane's Corner: 8-17-21 The Shirt Tells The Story
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...
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Crane's Corner: 8-5-21 Elder... Statesman for California
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 Go...
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Crane's Corner: 8-4-21 Murphy's in the Cockpit - Cancelled Flights
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 d...
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Crane's Corner: 8-3-21 Do The Right Thing, Delta Could Mean Death.
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...
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Episode 8: Gone in the blink of an eye. The final story on TWA Flight 800.
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 s...
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Crane's Corner: 7-28-21 The Lives of the Rich and Interviewed
The death of Jackie Mason, maybe the last of a generation of the so called Borscht Belt comics, brought to mind one funny story and triggered a celebrity headcount. Working on air since 1980, running into or interviewing celebrities...
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Crane's Corner: 7-27-21 The Golden Fleece
From Gavin Newsom to Joe Biden, even back to Donald Trump, pandemic related stimulus, payroll protection and unemployment payouts have been so hefty most of us have forgotten how much the state and federal governments fleece us when pathogens f...
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Crane's Corner: 7-22-21 Ad Nausea
It’s a funny society we live in. Say the wrong word, express the wrong thought, deviate from the politically correct program and you could lose a friend or a job or a career. These cultural censors seem to be everywhere. But on television these...
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Crane's Corner: 7-21-21 Newsom's a Nuisance
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 ...
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Episode 7: House of Oliver's Matt Oliver shares pandemic experience...and more.
First it was the "Rebel Restaurant in Roseville" that wouldn't stay closed, risked fines and license challenges but stood by their beliefs that, done properly, dining in was safer than shopping at Costco or Home Depot. Today, now that thi...
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