Columns

Jason, my teenage friend, I know you are dead and cannot read this letter, but I had to write it anyway. You just wanted to...

Know What I Heard? Grampa do you know what Diane said?   No. And I don’t care.   Even if it’s about you?   Especially if it’s about me.   Why?   Because you’re a...

City Hall Pledged to Support Community Gardens Then-Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger championed passage in 2006 of AB 32, the nation’s first statewide law to put...

Palm Sunday I write as the Indy traveling correspondent to little Midway, Utah. It’s a picturesque village high in the Wasatch range of the Rocky...

Double Or Bubble? Four years ago in March 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed out at 6,547 and the S&P 500 at 677. They...

  By Alexandra Bank McMahon My earliest memory of Laguna Beach is of my mother driving me to Forest Avenue on a Saturday afternoon to audition...

It’s Halloween and McWeather hasn’t changed his costume for years, actually doesn’t even need one. He looks scary enough as it is!

Goodbye Liberate Laguna Liberate Laguna was started because my longtime friend Peter Blake and I got tired of being bullied by Village Laguna. Its members...

Astronomy, Passover and Easter The vernal equinox doesn’t mean much in a town of year-around good weather. It’s just another day in paradise. It means...

Growing up in a Victorian farmhouse was not as romantic as one might think.  For one thing there was only one bathroom and it...

Here at the beach we’re almost wishing it was June, after all, it was only gloomy in June a total of only five days this year. The unrelenting marine muck is dominating the weather scene this fall. The surf hasn’t been in a good mood either. Nor the water temp, for that matter. The Southern Hemisphere is quiet, the eastern Pacific tropical waters are done for the year, skunked again. The north Pacific is dormant too. I guess it’s just one of those years or should I say more like decades. It almost seems like there’s a restraining order out on Senor El Nino since 1997-98.

By Katrina Foley, Orange County Supervisor Supporting the 105,000 veterans here in Orange County remains a top priority for my office. When I joined the board...

Wisdom’s Secrets This election season has rocked the foundation of many of us. It is noteworthy how many have shared that they feel unhinged, unsettled...

Mixing It Up There are a growing number of residents unhappy with changes to the Downtown Specific Plan. I asked one resident to explain. “I...

Who’s Running This Place? When Laguna Beach was incorporated in 1927 there was concern for how Laguna Beach would respond to the pressures of growth...