Columns

Guest Contributor Losing a special teacher is difficult. We'd been through it before at Thurston Middle School. My son’s burgeoning percussion skills had ignited under the...

Somethin’s Got to Give The village entrance, a project that has resulted in more alternatives being drawn than any other. Council candidates from the 1990s...

Short Sighted The road to marriage is paved with good intentions. That’s what I was thinking when reading the Indy article, “Short Term Rentals Get...

Chaotic Times There is nothing antiseptic or impersonal about politics. Each party is all about bipolar chaos. This transfers down to a societal climate of...

September Song September has been a hard luck month for stocks. Since it was created in the 1890’s, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has averaged...

The Word From Wyoming   This week, Jackson Hole is the center for stock market prediction. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will address a well-heeled money...

Journey is Just Underway   It's hard for me to believe these youngsters I once knew -- Victoria B., Kelsey P., Will M. and Amanda S....

Bedfellows Politics make for strange bedfellows. That’s why I keep waking up alone. I can’t fall asleep with all the jabbering. So, I read with...

  Sad Saga of Bike Safety This week Dylan Thomas Rand-Luby pleaded guilty to felony charges of hit-and-run with injury, plus one misdemeanor count of vehicular...

Masters of Time On a recent Saturday we walked up the street for the memorial service for our neighbor Bill Ives. Friends and family gathered...

Intrepid Traveler This is me reporting live from the Michigan Dunes. I like saying live like a TV reporter. Makes me feel like I’m where...

  The Price of Fame   Lately, I've been too busy to write. It has become difficult to accomplish much of anything because there are just too...

See the U.S.A. in A Chevrolet This week, all three major U.S. stock indexes, the Dow Jones Industrials, the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the...

This Away to Beach   Wow. Neighbors are mad at South Laguna beaches. When asked for directions to the beach, many are pointing this away to...

Late In the Evening The scene: Art Walk Laguna, August, 2016. My mood: tired and cranky. I had been working on a giant apartment deal and was...