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Breast Cancer Affects Us, Laguna Beach! By Dr. Tracy Darling I’m sickened at how many wonderful people I’ve met who have been diagnosed with breast cancer,...

A Fight Well Fought, A Wife Remembered By James Utt The Edison Company had a scheduled power outage that was running hours past the time they...

Stay at Home Sometimes a story just falls in your lap. And it hurt. “Couldn’t you have just sent a PDF file?” I cried. Standing...

Is the Rally for Real? Another week of cautious progress by stocks is keeping their October rally alive. The market needs another 3% to get...

Short List I read with interest the Indy article, “Forum Defines Traits of a Super Superintendent.” Community members met to discuss desired qualities that they...

Bridging a Cultural Divide With Art By Xun (Michael) Chi Sometimes, a person can stand in the present, reflect on what has passed and discover that...

By Sam Ellis, Special to the Independent Can I be honest with you? Before I was called to serve as youth pastor at Church by...

Appreciating Change It’s been 50 years since the UC Irvine campus opened, and there has been ample publicity about how the university has grown and...

The Bard of Laguna “Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his...

Feeling For The Bottom Stocks finally struck some sparks of light after a wretched quarter. Whether these can relight a fire under the market remains...

Farm to Table I made a bet with my wife. The bet was I wouldn’t write a Pet Peeves column for one month to...

Turtles Tell No Tales In recent months, several local snorkelers, including us, have been getting the singular thrill of swimming with a sea turtle just...

Wounded Warriors Conquer Waves By Howard Hills There was a lot going on Saturday, Sept. 26.  Farmer’s market, Water District open house on conservation, plus daughters coming...

The Missing Wonder Wall This is a story about how Laguna Beach public art should work, but does not. Usually. This is how it usually works....

Real News Needed Stocks closed the quarter with a badly needed up day. Despite that last-minute boost, they still ended the third quarter down 7%...