Columns

Historic Ripoff 3.0 The fog of obfuscation and misdirection generated by the usual mind-numbing presentation quickly filled the chambers during last Saturday’s special City Council meeting...

Read the Personals   HUSBAND CARE CENTER – If you are a wife or significant other who wants to go shopping, meet a friend for lunch,...

By Terry Black   You’ve probably seen them outside any grocery store this time of year, the Knights of Columbus, a charitable organization based within the...

The Worriers Are Wrong: Stocks Are A Buy The stock market endured what seems like a Biblical forty days of rain, depressing investor spirits. These dipped...

  Beyond Posh First, the disclosure:  I am a personal mess.  My clothes are of no discernable style.  My shoes are scruffy and sometimes do not...

Frogman I went to the laser light show hosted by the Laguna Art Museum. I was standing on the surf line at Main Beach. I...

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson.   Who ever thought that a high school tennis awards banquet could double...

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

Instant Intimacy By Susan McNeal Velasquez In our fast-paced society, we have come to expect that everything, including intimacy, can be created instantly. Since the internet,...

Intolerance Be Gone!   Last week the Indy published an article titled “Groms be Gone!” in which columnist Christine Fugate describes an annoying encounter with three...

  Reconsider please… Not enough funds to maintain “The Sunbathers” sculpture? The two semi-abstract figures lounge in Nita Carman Park behind the high school baseball field....

Stocks are going through a “correction,” normal behavior after a satisfying advance so far this year. Investors remain quite sensitive to company events and...

Patience Pays Dividends The new Administration is finishing its third week of its “shakedown cruise,” a nautical term for the “sea trials” of a new...

Who’d have thought you had to come to Grand Rapids to become a famous artist in New York?” Glenn Rogers, on location at ArtPrize last week. Local entrepreneur and tennis legend Glenn Rogers and I were in Grand Rapids, Mich., last week for business and happened on one of the world’s largest art contests with the richest purse. Who would have thought you had to travel to the heartland to find it? It sparked some thoughts on expanding Laguna’s art horizons.

Rethinking the Lorax A generation of people grew up loving Lorax, a Dr. Seuss character. The Lorax “spoke for the trees” and warned of the...