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Reunion Proves a Strange Trip The projection screen was down. There was equipment and fussing around with it as author Nick Schou prepared to talk...

Your Happiness Quotient If happiness is a state of mind, why is it so seldom adopted as a permanent mind set? There are aspects of happiness...

Benchwarmers I felt a real pull of the heartstrings after reading the Indy’s “Bench Warms Seats, Teaches Empathy.” It’s about a hand-painted bench at El...

Keep on Planting Some people have remarked that the South Laguna Community Garden Park was looking sad. Indeed it was. We made the decision to...

Kids Doing Better Sometimes you bump into a subject so uplifting you just have to tell about it. This one’s about a sensitive topic—sex. It’s...

Summer in the Dog House   Summer time and the living is easy …unless you are a dog in Laguna Beach, in which case, you are...

Knowledge Conquers Fear   By Skip Hellewell The Beautiful Wife and I, thinking to reduce our novel coronavirus exposure, stayed on in little Midway, Utah. We didn’t...

By Susan Heiligman It’s an early sunset during the Thanksgiving holiday, and those marvelous limited hours of daylight are to be relished. We would often...

Round And Round It Goes Round and round it goes, and where it stops the Chairwoman knows. Wall Street is intensely waiting for the next...

Charisma Cha-ris-ma: A special quality of leadership that captures the popular imagination and inspires unswerving allegiance and devotion. -Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. Second Edition   Muhammed Ali, Mother...

New Highs, Old Principles Stocks powered to new highs on both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500. Only a week ago, I...

Can’t Cut the Mustard The best part of a drive to San Diego is the portion of the journey through Camp Pendelton. The Marines have...

By Steve McIntosh When Supt. Jason Viloria was hired in 2016 with only 11 months of associate superintendent experience, board members talked about his focus...

By Dave Raber Would you trust a developer to give you information to help you stop overdevelopment? Consider that Measure Q's opponents, "Citizen's for Laguna's...

Village Matters: Encounters to Treasure The murder of Dr. Michael Mammone shocked and saddened all who heard of it. Many of us experienced the enormity...