Opinion: Wisdom Workout
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....
Opinion: This is Where We Live
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...
Opinion: Help stop the utility tax
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...
Opinion: Laguna waterman Briggs ‘Corky’ Smith dies at 88
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...
Opinion: Edison Bulldozed in Open Space Without Necessary Permits
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...
Opinion: The Case for Dean Phillips
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...
Opinion: Wisdom Workout
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...
Opinion: Skipping Down the Sidewalks of 70s Laguna
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...
Opinion: Laguna’s biggest financial challenge
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...
Guest Opinion: Green Light
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...
Opinion: Dear Susi Q
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,...
Opinion: The civility hypocrisy
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...
Opinion: Squid Vicious
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...
Opinion: Wisdom Workout
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?...
Opinion: Spill response suggestions are neither achievable or realistic
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...