Columns

Dealing With The Dips Almost halfway through the first quarter and the stock market is making a good effort to regain its footing. The market...

“New Faces, Fresh Hope” By Jean Hastings Ardell Amanda Gorman’s reading of her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb,” as President-elect Joseph R. Biden took office...

Whose House, Anyway?   Design Review has always been contentious, and how could it not be?  A property owner wants to alter their home to their...

Worlds Beyond Our Sight Have you noticed the container ships loitering off the coast this past week? I counted six the other night. They’re like...

My Tribe   I never fit in anywhere. In high school, I was in student politics, “smart” classes, many clubs, and an early surfer. Yet I...

Nothing Personal   Are you familiar with the term Machiavellianism? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is defined as “the employment of cunning and duplicity...

KelpFest 2023: Laguna and the Sea  Children were there. Lots of them. Three-year-old Lily spent time at the Laguna Bluebelt booth marveling at the ocean...

Fork in the Road I read Indy’s, “Pedestrian Plaza Moves Ahead” before my morning cup of coffee.  Big mistake. I was totally confused. I had...

Weather’s Potpourri   The past seven days has dished out just about every kind of weather one could ask for. First, the record heat. Los Angeles set...

  In Laguna Beach, we like to think we are different. We welcome all types of people: old, young, gay, straight, male, female, black, brown—everyone. But...

Hits, Misses  & Forecasts Quarterly earnings reports fell upon a stock market ready to react. Which way to react was unclear as what seemed as...

Higher Altitudes The stock market is flirting with new highs on the S&P 500-stock index. As I wrote two weeks, ago momentum seemed destined to...

The Sympathy Trap By Susan McNeal Velasquez Do you care too much about your loved one’s problems? If so, you might be caught in the sympathy...

Pyrotechnics on the Street and in Mid Air Stocks celebrated the Glorious Fourth with fireworks, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average finally went through 17,000. Investment...

Laguna’s summer is finally here. Labor Day’s pancakes signal the end of our visitor-clogged visitor season. The scent of oil of tourista no longer...