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Indy’s Perfect Groundhog Day

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Editor, Woke up on Groundhog Day 2018 to “Finding Meaning” (Indy, Feb 2).  Indy is practicing real pluralism with this new feature column on faith....

Is Lawsuit Expense the Tip of the Iceberg?

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Editor, In response to your recent article about suspensions at LBHS, I think you missed the point… The issue of concern here is not the number...

Holding School Officials Accountable for Their Actions

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Editor, In response to “School Discipline Under Scrutiny Again” article Feb. 2. What is most incomprehensible to me is why there hasn’t been more investigative research,...

Leaders Need to Change School Culture

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Editor, Having read and heard more about this incident over the past year, I firmly believe had the Laguna Beach Police Department handled the situation...

A Teachable Moment Missed

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Editor Re: “School Discipline Under Scrutiny Again,” Feb. 9 edition. The originating event did not happen on campus, did not happen during school hours, did not...

Living With an Unlovely Landscape Fixture

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Editor, The 1955 movie “To Catch a Thief” was made in Cannes and Nice, France, and its views of the countryside remind me of our...

Could Water Recycling Grants Lift Undergrounding Efforts?

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Editor, Just Add Water? I am not a trained firefighter but I am a skilled waterman. Strategically applied, water puts out fire. Sometimes we can combine a few...

Rebuttal to Eucalyptus Critic

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Editor, It’s a sad day for our free exchange of ideas when the argument is made that there should be a penalty for having an...

Will Democrats Split their Vote Again?

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Editor: I was disenchanted and surprised to read the quotes by Michael McLaughlin, who released statements about the pre-endorsement delegates to the media, in regard...

Columnists Should Stick to Local Topics

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Editor: We agree with Ben Earl (“Anti-Trump Diatribe Belongs Elsewhere,” Feb. 2) regarding Billy Fried's column.  Fried's opinions on national politics and his personal attacks have no...

Historical Integrity Matters in Coast Inn’s Restoration

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Editor, No one believes that it shouldn’t be renovated and restored to its original glory.  However, the original structure never had a rooftop addition as...

Hooray for Art in Unexpected Spaces

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Editor I just had to write and say thank you (to the city’s cultural arts manager Sian Poeschl) for: The heavenly rainbow consolation memorial art installation...

The Kibitzer

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The War on Rooftops What is it about roof decks that has our town spun out? We hear all the time how they are ruining...

Wisdom Workout

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Simple Truths  How is it possible to keep our equilibrium when negative news abounds with messages of turmoil and chaos? Our days are filled with more...

Heart Talk

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Paper, Please Those of us lined up at 7 a.m., eagerly waiting to vote at our local precinct last November, were told that the voting...