Columns

 The Power of Imagination Susan McNeal Velasquez     The theme of the Pageant of the Masters 2011, “Only Make-Believe,” is a tribute to artistic imagination unleashed....

It Can Be Done By Jean Hastings Ardell When I last wrote this column a while back, the subject was trees. One might think that’s a...

The First Village Entrance A lot has changed between Laguna’s two village entrance projects. Two entrance projects? Yes, there was another one, back in 1933...

The Ecology Center and Laguna’s Community Garden Park  Sustainable growing and eating are receiving more public attention now than ever before in my octogenarian lifetime....

Read the Personals DAVOS FEMALE – I’m a Davos VIP, just returned from the big conference. It’s my great pleasure to sell impressive bumper stickers for...

Secrets of a Special Scallop Although one has not been allowed to remove shells from the beach in Laguna for many years, finding a shell...

Public Garages Are Like Snowflakes By Mark Crantz When something momentous happens people celebrate. Weddings, births, and graduations are commemorated with celebratory champagne toasts. Recently, Lagunans...

By Billy Fried Well it’s open season on Mo Honarkar, the embattled lease-owner and redeveloper of the Hotel Laguna. Two weeks ago there were three...

Where Will The Market Go? Investors and investment media spend enormous energies in asking and trying to answer where the stock market is headed. An elevator...

I have a rich imagination. Savoring council’s unanimous vote on the evening of April 4 to halt blufftop development seaward of its present limits...

A Walk Through 1920 Laguna Take a walk through the Laguna Beach of a century ago, guided by a dead man. Harold Weaver was an...

Trees Geez By Mark D. Crantz The reason why I’ve retired to a drafty monastery way up the mountain is to tell people my loftier thoughts....

Majority Report I was behind bars when I read Indy’s “Laguna’s Crime Rate is Up, DUIs Decline.” Don’t misunderstand. I’m innocent. I was in Peppertree...

By Michael Morris It’s no secret that many developers and business interests are spending lots of dollars to defeat the Laguna Residents First Ballot Initiative...

Brexit Backlash The beat goes on. After a shakeout following the British vote to leave the European Union, worldwide stock markets surged. U.S. stock and...