Town Crier

‘The Times They Are a Changin’  Tariffs on steel and aluminum were followed by $60 billion of targeted tariffs against China, whom Mr. Trump has...

Remember When You Took Time To... ...use your imagination to see images formed by the puffy clouds that floated by on a lazy summer's day? How...

Editor, As my email server, Cox Communications is derelict, I receive some emails hours after they were sent. Some arrive promptly; others never arrive. Sending...

Editor, Two articles in the March 16 Indy illustrate the dilemma Laguna Beach and other public entities have inherited as to defined benefit public employee pension plans. In the private sector...

Editor, Nearly 2.5 years ago, the city agreed to begin a 10-year rehabilitation schedule for our sanitary sewer system, funding $3.5 million per year for...

Editor, On Dec. 20, my downhill next-door neighbor erected posts for a six-foot fence. I had no notice that this was going to be built....

Editor: Always discerning, J.J. Gasparotti asks, “Have we become so prosperous that fiscal responsibility is no longer a concern?” (“Money for Nothing” in the March...

Editor, (This letter was also addressed to school board members.) You ALL blew it!   By being so passive, so restrictive, so opaque and stuck behind the...

Meaning in Holy Week    With 2 billion faithful, Christianity is the world’s largest and most wide-spread faith. The gospel revealed at the Sermon on the...

Climate-Wise Laguna With an appreciative nod to the ongoing Laguna water-wise campaign, a group of townspeople came together last summer to propose and advocate for...

The Art Exhibit My daughter, Gabby, 25, and I were in Medellin, Colombia, the heart of Pablo Escobar’s former narco-drug empire, but we had little...

Park Plaza For Good I have written exhaustively about the profound, positive impact that pubic, pedestrian spaces have on fostering community, and how cities across...

Lovers of wild gardens and mid-century architecture are invited to the annual spring open house at Hortense Miller Garden in Boat Canyon on Saturday,...

Margaret Theresa Garrard of Illinois passed away on March 9, 2018, in Mission Viejo surrounded by family. She was 97 years old. Margaret, known as...

Our incredible father, husband, grandfather and beloved friend, John Morse, died peacefully at his home in Laguna Beach on March 10, 2018. John, known to...