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Slip Sliding Away The notion that our small town civic leaders would need the services of consultants and professional pollsters, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, to understand the opinion of their constituents on any certain issue doesn’t sound much like a small...

New ‘Old’ Friends? The Beautiful Wife abhors violence.  But she also loves a TV show full of murder and mayhem.  It’s called “Blue Bloods” and follows a New York police family.  What hooks her is that each show features the four generations gathering for a family dinner.  They...

Read the Personals TWIN SISTERS – 37 years old.  We sing and dance, we bake deliciousness from the homeland.  We are work live-in maids, for big or small house.  We clean, cook and make happy entertainments in exchange for safe place to live. #Tina&Nina   KATRINA...

Flushed with Cash I was on the royal throne when I read the Indy’s “Auditor Finds Shortcomings in Agency’s Books.” An obscure group, South Orange County Wastewater Agency (SOCWA), has been collecting fees for my #### content without my approval.  It is Facebook’s social media...

Quest for Mellon “Coke’s tasty, but all that sugar just gets in your belly and starts radiating heat like a blacksmith’s forge. It just cools you for a second, then it’s hotter than ever. Who else has got one?” Hevs had eight or 10 kids lined up now, at the foot of the porch in...

A Reality Check When was the last time you had a heart to heart talk with Life? Have you included Life in your current game plan or are you expecting Life to read your mind? Have you been mumbling a litany of complaints under your breath so that Life is a bit wary of being...

Confessions of a Newspaper Junkie   The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded this week for excellence in journalism. Or what’s left of it, as more and more storied newsrooms across the nation fall victim to an unsustainable business  model.  In fact, editorial staffs at papers like the...

Greetings from Earnings Season Both the Dow Jones Industrials and the S&P 500 broke their streak of nine straight positive quarters three weeks ago as the first quarter ended. Each index was off about 2% for the quarter, enough to ignite returning fears on Wall Street....

We Would Not Act Like Irvine      Since “Asians in Irvine score political victory,” appeared in The Los Angeles Times on April 1, I thought it might have been an April Fool’s joke. But it was not. The article reported the hostile reaction to county officials considering placing...

Echoes of Design Review Report from a design review hearing in the near future. There are a few changes in the process. Applicants are now addressed as supplicants. Those against the project are anti supplicants. Supplicants must kneel on a granite stone located before the bored...

How Far We’ve Come Who doesn’t love books?  I do. There’s meaning in books.  Of the things that make our town special, one is Laguna Beach Books.  Thanks to proprietor Jane Hanauer, it’s Orange County’s only independent book store.  So, when I heard Jordan Peterson—the...

The Fix Is In “A camel is a horse designed by committee.”  Anonymous “If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.”   Arthur Goldberg Laguna used to be the city of diversity, a place where strange ideas could bloom, Timothy Leary, the Boom Boom...

Partridge Family Tree Timberrrr…yelled an ocean view advocate when he heard Laguna Beach is just a step away from being designated an official Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation. The coveted designation requires having a city tree department, a tree care ordinance, an...

Read the Personals FARM CO-OP will allow you to grow your own fruits and vegetables on your own plot. We have several people in our communal property enjoying growing their own farm-to-table nutritious edibles.  Take advantage of our good earth.  No pot growers please! ...

Gone Fishin’ We missed him when he was gone for just a few days on one of his fishing or camping trips.  Now we’ll have to make do without him forever. Morrie Granger died suddenly on Monday, April 9.  We are left wondering how we will cope without his daily visits with Rocky,...