Columns

Making Sense of 2015 I make my living as a real estate developer and have many developer friends, who in OC are overwhelmingly Republican. Let...

Divining Water Shtick I don’t believe in coincidence. I just read two Indy articles. One was “Schools Reject Fee Hikes on New Building.” The other...

Water Works The past 700 years have been the wettest in California history since the end of the Ice Age. The prior 15,000 years were...

In Defense of Heretics  A heretic is someone who holds an opinion at odds with what is widely accepted. That said, I confess to the...

Surf & Sand’s Splashes   A Laguna Beach landmark for 60 years, the Surf and Sand Resort continues to remain a desired destination for Lagunans and...

“I want to be famous,” my  11-year-old tells me. We are standing on Hollywood Boulevard watching the premiere of the new Ben Stiller movie,...

End of Year Epiphanies By Jean Hastings Ardell Because I’ve learned to be flexible about gathering family together over the holidays—so very many branches having sprouted...

Hurricanes Continued! Only about a month from the beginning of summer, but try telling this week’s weather. A pair of March-like storms are bearing down...

By Lisa Bartlett Undergrounding of utility power lines has been a hot topic — no pun intended — for quite some time and is frequently...

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Road Kill Stew 2.0 The school board has once again dragged out that bubbling cauldron of road kill stew they call a calendar change to...

Read Widely, Buy Locally I have done it. Most likely you have, too. It is so easy. Maybe you've heard about a book that sounds...

Cooperation   “Cooperation is the new competition.” GrowersFirst.com   Our family just returned from an epic adventure in Honduras with the Laguna Beach-based non-profit Growers First. The trip...

Wedding Bells Thank goodness I wasn’t invited. I read in the Indy that the first couple married in a civil ceremony by Laguna Beach’s city...

By Tom Williams As a business owner, there are two issues I hear about every day of my life. They are parking and praffic. Constantly I...