From Corrections To Jazz The market’s uptrend momentum lost energy and the background news of anxieties about interest rates pushed it into a “correction.” This was to be expected after its strong run this year. This environment demands restrained buys and even some sells. As reported last week, I sold a few positions in order [...]
by Chris Quilter This edition of Patchwork got underway in the utilitarian jurors’ lounge at the Santa Ana Courthouse, where solid citizens silently pray they will not be required to demonstrate their commitment to our democratic way of life. My prayers went unanswered, which is only fair when they are so transparently self-serving. Additionally, the [...]
By Nadine B. Hoffman I’m sleeping a little more soundly now. But then, it’s been more than a week since I saw the dead man. Sunday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend and the beach was snap-crackle-and-popping. I picked my way through the p.m. crowd and let my shabby pink towel settle onto a patch [...]
By Mark D. Crantz Laguna Beach. Another perfect day in Paradise, but oh no, the tourists are coming. The tourists are coming. Paul Revere had to warn citizens once and history makes a big deal about it. Actually, it was just dumb luck that the colonists got any warning at all. It seems no one [...]
“Nothing’s better for me than going out in the water with four guys [in a Brooks Street Contest heat], and it’s so much damn fun!” –Corky Smith, Brooks Street surfing legend. Last weekend, the conditions came together for the 50th annual Brooks Street surfing contest to finally happen. It’s been a few years since [...]
Treasury Bonds Or Tesla Stock? Stocks sold off as the summer began, giving back the gains they achieved in May. Investors seemed unusually spooked by these fluctuations, possibly in reaction to all the publicity about new highs and the new level of Dow 15,000. As the market slid back before this magic level, new anxieties [...]
By Arnie Silverman June 2 marks the anniversary of the start of the Korean War. On that date in 1950 armed forces from communist North Korea attacked South Korea, starting the Korean War. The U.S. came to the defense of South Korea and fought a bloody and for many a frustrating war for the next [...]
Let’s talk trees – since they seem to be the target of pending city legislation that will signal their doom. The recent elimination of towering ficus in the downtown area and the charge of the View Equity Committee to reduce any offending tree to 8’, strikes hard at the heart of our synergistic partners in [...]
Before South of Mission in San Francisco there was SoHo in New York, and now NoHo and The Bowery, and every city seems to have an evolving cutting edge part of town. In Laguna, the southern end of the so-called Hip District, at the corner of Pearl Street and Coast Highway, is home to a [...]
Walk into a room crowded with partiers chatting animatedly. Glasses are raised. Hors d’oeuvres on tiny plates are being balanced. There are conversations that are hard to break into. But there are those faces I recognize and I know that with them there will always be a warm reception. Jim and Jan Hall of Temple [...]
Farewell To May, Hello To Summer The market had a good month. As May comes to a close, the S&P 500 is up around 6% for the month and 15% since the beginning of the year. As always, investors now ask, “What’s next?” Stocks tend to follow Isaac Newton’s first law of motion that an [...]
by Chris Quilter My mother’s mother was a perfect lady. If she were starving, she would politely ask you if you were hungry. (No? Are you sure?) On occasion, however, she could flash the will of steel she usually kept cloaked beneath her garment of gentility. As she grew dangerously wobbly, for example, she [...]
My first full time job as a young adult was as a bank teller. Periodically, the bank auditors would arrive and the atmosphere would become tense. What will they find? Will we be in compliance? Will our manager enforce stricter checks and balances on our procedures? In other words, will we be forced to change? [...]
Ill Prepared Hiker Rescued from Hillside
A sheriff’s helicopter was used to extract a hiker who suffered an anxiety attack and was unable to move from a steep trail in Laguna Beach’s open space about 6 p.m. Sunday, June 9, police said. Lifeguards in an all-terrain vehicle coordinated the extraction from thick brush and a steep slope between Alta Laguna Park [...]
