Taking Stock
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...
Village Matters
Moderating an Overreach
The day after the Coast Inn hearing last week at the City Council here was this surprise email from one of the...
The Kibitzer
How Measure P Went Down in Flames
Now that the elections are over, we can breathe a collective sigh of relief, trash those offensive signs,...
When The Garden Club Comes A Knockin’
By Pat Chatlin
The day the Laguna Beach Garden Club announces that Lower Lombardy Lane is going to be “a point of interest” on its...
Unfazed by Mortality, He Pursues Another Project
We have this tree just on the street side of our retaining wall. An Oak tree, while it helps beautify the street, it doesn’t...
Taking Stock
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...
Speaker’s Corner: Dancing the Tango With City Council
On Nov. 12, Delia Horowitz will be the facilitator for the city’s workshop regarding the village entrance. (“Tacking the Intractable Entrance,” Nov. 1 edition.)...
Village Matters
Ever have a dream of being a struggling passenger cast overboard in a stormy sea, frantically trying to grasp the edges of a lifeboat—only...
Weather Or Not
Rivers From the Sky
A powerful late season Pacific storm descended upon us on Sunday and Monday, dropping some pretty incredible amounts of rain, some...
Pet Peeves
AI
A.I. is all the rage. A.I. stands for artificial intelligence. And a lot of this talk is about artificial intelligence in our cars. Experts...
Opinion: Let’s Raise Our Flags
By Chris Tebbutt
The month of June is officially LGBTQ+ Heritage & Culture Month in Laguna Beach, as unanimously proclaimed by City Council five years...
Taking Stock
Time To Buy?
Storm clouds are blowing out. Market corrections last a couple of months on average and we probably have a few weeks before...
Guest Column: The ‘Stay-cation’
The hustle and bustle of summer in Laguna Beach begins once again. In the fray of the activity and beautiful weather there are naysayers...
Taking Stock
Nix to Bricks
Stocks continue to bounce around in response to new quarterly earnings reports and in reaction to their decent advance over the last...