Columns

By Larry Nokes July 14 is the hearing date for the new Historic Preservation Ordinance (HPO). On balance, it is a sensible law. The history...

Christmas Eve in Laguna ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the town City Council was voting, letting residents down. The staff was concocting new ways...

Playground Fight Have any of you ever had a job as an elementary school grounds monitor, where you supervise the activities of school children during...

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the...

Let's take a moment to formally welcome 2014. The birthing process is over and we’ve brought the new baby home. If you listen closely, you...

Election Year And Stocks Turbulent currents continue to make the stock market work slowly upstream. Troubling news from the Euro Zone pushed stocks back this...

Uppity Times I was surprised to find out that Indy columnist Michael Ray has been spending his time reading a lot of ancient and middle...

Remembering The Beautiful Wife and I went to church early last Sunday, eager to get a seat for the Christmas service. The service was a...

Haggen’s Price Pinch Grocery stores are a wonderland. I love them. They have everything you could want or need in one place. A month ago...

  The chance that I would go to see a movie about a guy who is addicted to pornography is slim to none. However, the...

Some of us, okay, many of us, frequently bemoan the absence of the little things we think are missing around town. We comment on...

By Roger Bütow "Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.” Gary Snyder The trope that bad things come in threes, we...

The last few weeks of school are like the final days of pregnancy. You’re so busy getting ready for it that by the time...

Surprises Behind Cuba’s Socialist Curtain When you enter most undeveloped countries, your bags are checked by rough guards armed with Uzi machine guns. When you...

Once Bootleg Housing is Outed, It Doesn’t Come Back Before the 1993 fire an artist friend was trading construction work for rent. He had demolished...