Columns

By Ed Kaufman   Stroll any morning along the glorious bluffs of Heisler Park in North Laguna around 6:45 and you’ll invariably find a small pack...

The Last First Day of School Summer is slipping away. The shadows are longer and the days are getting annoyingly shorter. Soon there will be...

 By Marion K. Jacobs, Ph.D., Special to the Independent I was among the lucky ones. The fire was coming over Mystic and straight at us...

It’s Almost Over  As the world knows now, the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series since 1908. Over the month following that historic victory,...

Stocks Rehearse For A September Opening There is an old theatre saying that a poor dress rehearsal means a successful opening once the regular run...

 Home is Here   When I climbed the steps to the Congregational Church on Thanksgiving day, I didn’t know what to expect.  In all the years...

By Liz Zuercher   It starts with my husband, Gary, asking me to make Springerles, the German anise cookies his childhood neighbor, Mrs. Schlobaum, used to...

Weeding And Seeding Stocks appear to be firming up as if they were going to the gym for workouts instead of to their creditors for...

“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up...

Groundbreaking Discovery I took an inventory of my life. Bad career. Check. Bad marriage. Check and double check. (Gigantic asterisk needed here.) There has been...

Cuervo Trusting, a crow perched on our patio steps.  Just standing there, looking up. He’d spread his too-short wings and jump-fly from one step to...

“The public commissions, boards and councils and the other public agencies in this State exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business....

Dilemma Lingers On How do we solve our downtown dilemma: finding a way to foster our traditional small downtown within the changing economics of retail?...

By Michele McCormick   New Year’s Eve in Paris, Hong Kong, Nairobi, Delhi, exotic spots all. Still, at the auspicious time, I’d rather be in Laguna....