Columns

Earnings Coming Through  The stock market seems to be accepting that spring is really here. Improving earnings reports are boosting the upbeat tempo. Last quarter,...

Et tu, Brute? While everybody’s attention was on the village entrance, a funny thing happened in the ways of the forum. Norm Grossman was shown...

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....

Back To Basics With no new announcements from the Federal Reserve, the stock market calmed down. In May, Chairman Bernanke’s comment about prospective tapering of...

Raptors Lured to New Habitat June 1972 is considered the date of the first important victory in the modern environmental movement. That is when DDTwas...

Whose House, Anyway?   Design Review has always been contentious, and how could it not be?  A property owner wants to alter their home to their...

Elephants in the Room I’ve been glued to my TV set ever since I cut the cable. It was a bold move to go back...

By Mark D. Crantz Laguna Beach.  Another perfect day in Paradise, but oh no, the tourists are coming.  The tourists are coming.  Paul Revere had...

Ho Hum, Oh Dumb I hate people that flip to the last page of a book and read it’s ending. It’s cheating.   Authors work hard...

A Treat for Your Heart February is heart health awareness month and heart disease remains the top killer of men and women in this country....

Have a Heart   This week, as I read our letters to the editor, I noticed that our reputation as a hospitable, tolerant, free-spirited environment seems...

End Of The Quarter Stocks continue to oscillate in a range roughly between 12,000 and 13,000 on the Dow Jones Industrials Average. With news from...

Laguna’s French Connection is Hot, Très Chaude!  The late August temperature in the coastal city of Menton, Laguna’s French sister city, is 91 degrees Fahrenheit....

Weeding works wonders   There is a sloping area on the edge of the South Laguna Community Garden where a year ago we were pulling out...