Columns

It Was A Very Good Year It was a very good year for stocks. With the closing bell coming on Friday, the broad S&P 500...

A Year Beyond Our Imagining   “And these are the good days in life Building castles made of sand. Always knowing that the tide gonna come To take them...

Fire Risk Eclipses All City Priorities In the aftermath of what may have been California’s worst fire season, I have decided what I want most...

A Wake-up Call If this year has taught anything, it is that relying on external circumstances to provide safety and security is a fool's journey. Since...

Holidays and Mixed Emotions   A couple of things make me uncomfortable about December. First, it gets dark way too early, and second, it is a...

Bluff I was on the edge while reading Indy’s, “Planners Consider Changes to Beach Bluff Development.” 99% of beach strollers urged the Pet Peeves columnist...

Read the Personals GIFTED PSYCHIC – I can help you with love relationships, illness, healing, money problems, family matters. I provide the answers for you. ...

Tourism should pay for undergrounding and more We all love Laguna Beach and we know why. With the good, we must also endure the bad,...

Ever have a dream of being a struggling passenger cast overboard in a stormy sea, frantically trying to grasp the edges of a lifeboat—only...

Run-up Sets Record for GOP Presidents Stocks continue their remarkable run. Since President Trump’s inauguration, the popular Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 23% with...

Petra, the Hot Bot  Hello, this is Petra, the Hot Blonde. I’m not busy tonight. How ‘bout you? Wanna go get a martini at----- Damn,...

Down in the Dips I smelled a good story when I read the Indy’s “Sewer Odor Fix on its Way.” I went over to Calliope...

Read the Personals DEAR MATTHEW—I’m done.  I cannot deal with your obsessive-compulsive, depressive, repetitive condition any longer. You have no curiosity, no desire to travel, to...

The Long Look Back When my father moved our family from Chicago to Baltimore in 1957, his realtor told him where the Jews could and...

Who really took down Al Capone? The term "fake news" continues to dominate today's discussions about politics, finance and other important topics. The same is true...