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Your Capacity to Love Since Valentine’s Day will be over by the time I write to you again, I thought I’d help get you prepared....

Frazee House By Hunter Fuentes and Jon Stordahl We all know the idiom, “It never hurts to ask.” That is exactly how Clark and Greg Collins...

By Judie Mancuso Many Californians are unaware that their electric bills could jump substantially next year. The reason is that in 2022, the state legislature...

By Roger Butow Late in the evening on Sunday, Jan. 21, Briggs Christian (Corky) Morris-Smith exhaled his last breath as his son Kurt read to...

By Gene Felder  Many Laguna Beach residents worked very hard for years to preserve open space to add to our quality of life. All Lagunans...

It's no secret that our democracy is in peril. That trust in government is at an all-time low. That Donald Trump's popularity is the...

Put the New in your New Year Knowing where you are is the first step in making new decisions. Self-honesty might not be sexy, but...

By Jon Flick My father drove a flower-powered van for his shop, Accent on Furniture, located a stone's throw from Timothy Leary and the Brotherhood...

By John Thomas Considering the Strategic Planning the city is currently doing, the question arises: Is this the year that Laguna Beach confronts and addresses...

Greening Laguna via the Orange County Power Authority Would you like electricity that is cleaner and two percent cheaper than Edison offers? Would you like...

Pondering a Question from a Four-Year-Old By Lynette Brasfield Q: Grandma, how did you get so old? A (somewhat) tongue-in-cheek answer from Grandma Lynette Luck, my dear Gwynn,...

Just to torture myself, I sometimes tune into City Council meeting videos. Friends recommended that I tune into the meeting on November 21, 2023, and...

By Billy Fried I just returned home from three weeks in Florida, caring for my mom (with my daughter) while her regular caretakers got a...

Right Here - Right Now By Susan McNeal Velasquez   Have you ever wondered if you picked up the wrong nametag at the registration table of life?...

By Roger Bütow Charlene Thomas’ well-intentioned “Tips for the sewer repair crew” letter to the editor in the Dec. 29, 2023 edition of the Independent offered suggestions...