Taking Stock
Time For Gratitude
With the market up over 15 % this year, stock investors should express gratitude at Thanksgiving for a strong bill market. Unrelenting...
Police Receive Crash Prevention Grant
The city’s Police Department received a $105,000 grant from the state Office of Traffic Safety to fund special enforcement and public awareness efforts to...
Musings on the Coast
The Tribes Take Over
Xavier is from Puerto Rico, grew up poor, and today is a struggling young actor in Hollywood. We met by accident...
Film Documents a Mountain Lion’s Home in an Urban Landscape
“The Cat That Changed America,” a documentary about a mountain lion coexisting in urban Los Angeles, will be shown by Laguna Greenbelt, Inc. Sunday, Nov....
White House Aides Are on the Road
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Ivanka Trump took questions from panelists during a presentation in Newport Beach earlier today, local resident Loreen Gilbert said...
Personnel File
Bartlett Names new Chief of Staff
Fifth District Supervisor Lisa Bartlett named Victor Cao as her new chief of staff this week.
Cao, the former deputy...
Just for Laughs
Read The Personals
FOR SALE – 10 holiday tins of Young’s Plantation assorted pecans, missing all chocolate covered ones.
Sorry about that (you can always fill...
Pet Peeves
Checkout Noon
I tried not to panic over the Indy story “Lawsuit Contests Hotel Laguna Lease.” Hotel operators allege being illegally forced out by the...
Plant Needs Modernizing to Halt Ocean Discharges
Editor,
(This letter was also sent to the City Council.)
Without a recycled water system and no intention to do anything to reduce ocean discharges, Laguna...
Patriotism On and Off the Field
Editor,
I went with my family to the Laguna Beach High School football game Friday, Oct. 27. My oldest boy attends there as a ninth...
Why Emulate European Towns?
Editor,
I walked over to the new addition to our downtown and was mystified; there were three shade providing trees and two eucalyptus which typically...
Managers of Nepal School to Visit Benefactors
Editor,
We wanted to communicate our thanks for your ongoing support of our 22 children, who are doing beautifully at our Kathmandu home. If you...
On Getting Through Junior Year
Editor,
And we are not even half-way through it.
Junior year is your average nightmare.
Kids and parents are flipped out over grades, sports recruiters, college applications...
Heart Talk
Laguna Refuses to Go to Pot
In 1996, California legalized medical marijuana and a majority of Laguna Beach voters supported this initiative. In 2016, 57%...