SchoolPower Welcomes Financial Transparency
Editor,
Last week, a letter to the editor (“SchoolPower’s Strategic Options,” May 11) raised questions about SchoolPower’s salaries and expenses. SchoolPower is committed to being...
Making Room for Dissent
Editor,
Count me among many who admire PTA and Schoolpower leader Tammy Skenderian. Her commentary “Allow Stress-Free Semester Break” (Letters, April 20) invites respectful dialogue on...
Where She Stands
Editor,
In a time when small district congressional elections are making news on the national scene, we here in the 48th district (which encompasses Laguna...
Spare Taxpayers the Cost of a Garden
Editor,
It’s interesting that South Laguna, Village Laguna and Ann Christoff would embark on a deal that was never legally consummated.
That they should have gone...
Finding our Way
Editor,
In 1964 a new home development known as Park Avenue Laguna was built by Leslie Homes on Top-of-the-World. The homes were single and two...
Summer Kicks Off at West Street Beach
Editor,
Lesbians, bisexuals, gays and trans people from around the world will converge on Laguna's friendly L.B.G.T. international beach, West Street, on May 25-28, if...
The Kibitzer
Desert Pot Springs
I recently attended a cannabis trade show in Desert Hot Springs to see how the recreational industry is faring (for a friend,...
Guest Column
Finding Putin In Hell’s Kitchen
Countless allegations: insidious torture and murder; ethnic cleansing; supporting brutal dictators; mysterious poisonings. Last month, an attack with chemical weapons...
Taking Stock
All My Troubles Seem So Far Away
All systems are “go” in the financial markets for now. Stocks, bonds, the dollar and oil prices are...
Montage Names New Manager
Hotel operator Montage Hotels & Resorts named Anne-Marie Houston, who joined Montage Laguna Beach as resort manager in 2017, general manager of the local...
Does the Wet Suit You
Country Roads Take Me Home
The idea that Laguna Canyon Road is a rural country road is about as dead as John Denver. It may...
Heart Talk
An Old Debate Resurfaces
Both locally, with Orange County cities arguing over the sanctuary cities issue, and nationally, with troops on the border and calls...
Finding Meaning
Happy Mother’s Day
We’ve examined the process of finding meaning in past columns. But we haven’t acknowledged a hard reality: there’s a price. You must...
Try Your Hand at the Bowling Green
The Laguna Beach Lawn Bowling Club will once again host an annual open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 1
All...
Pet Peeves
Laguna Idol
For those Laguna residents, who missed Laguna Beach’s first test of a new emergency messaging system last Friday, May 4, here’s the reenactment. ...