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Editor, Our beautiful and friendly city annually welcomes thousands of visitors from all over the world.  We welcome all ethnicities, religions, sexual preferences, economic backgrounds, ages, clubs, groups, etc.  We have proven through the years a supportive and caring...

Despite the fact it’s about 3,000 miles from Laguna to Charlottesville, Va., plenty of people in town have been talking about what happened there last Saturday. It is beyond a crime when someone makes himself judge, jury and executioner.  That is exactly what a KKK...

Editor, At the last Laguna Beach City Council meeting, I listened to about 30 people speak relative to the details of the City’s decision to support our country’s initial endorsement of the Paris Climate Change agreement.  The comments were all in support of the...

Editor, Knowing that the most immediate way to reduce climate change is to reduce automobile exhaust emissions, here are a few ideas for the city to consider in meeting its current or new Climate Action Plan goals: Don’t build a 300 plus space parking structure at the entrance to...

Editor, At the Aug. 8 City Council meeting, our mayor and city councilmembers took steps to reaffirm our city’s position as an environmental leader in Orange County, California, and globally. At the meeting, the City Council voted unanimously to issue a resolution expressing the...

Editor, Now that members of the City Council have decided that we have a major traffic congestion problem, something needs to be done. They have ordered the city manager to come up with answers to the problem. If it wasn’t so pathetic, the council’s demand would be laughable. For...

Editor, In a letter I found in my files dated April 24, 1992, on city stationary sent to me, I was informed my home had been listed on the city’s Historic Resources Inventory. In the second paragraph of the letter there is the statement “that participation in the...

Editor, I enjoy reading the Indy and Stu News. They are the “go to” for local community news and Laguna happenings. What I don’t enjoy, and what is disappointing, is that the local news, and the Indy in particular, has become a political tool in our nation’s politics. Frankly, my...

Editor, Next year we’ll celebrate the 100-year history of Laguna Art Museum, which began with the founding of the Laguna Beach Art Association in 1918. One of the ways we’ll mark the occasion is by publishing a book of photographs and ephemera telling the LAM/LBAA story. With a...

Editor, I wanted to drop you a note of thanks for Daniella Walsh’s lovely article about my first year in the Festival of Arts. Of course, it’s tremendously flattering to receive such a glowing review of my art. But it’s also wonderful to have a local writer who...

Editor, Hot weather this summer brings to mind two or three humid summers here in the 1950’s. Back then long beach days ended swimming after dark, then gathering around bonfires. Kids ate hot fire roasted corn on the cob smothered in butter, while parents cooked up abalone and...

Editor, There are reports that sales are flat. There’s even a rumor that one art festival may close forever. Person after person is saying desirable visitors are shunning Laguna Beach because of traffic, congestion, parking and dangerously overloaded trolleys. Many say today’s...

A new involuntary historic preservation ordinance would create for us a financial disaster. After a lifetime of voluntarily preserving a 1927 cottage, an involuntary ordinance would create a markdown of at least at $1 million.  This is in terms of property value for resale and...

Editor, Having lived in Laguna for the last eight years, I have read many, many articles about what we need to do about parking in our city. In the latest installment there was a specific mention of parking for residents in their own neighborhoods. Has anyone ever suggested that...

Editor, A few years ago the residents of Laguna Beach stormed city hall to successfully protest the proposed building of a three story parking structure at the village entrance site. City Council has taken a step backwards by making a unanimous decision that residents will be...