Columns

Syria And Stocks The prospects of military action brought on by events in Syria sobered the stock market. Beyond the human costs inherent in any...

By George, Laguna Needs an Environmental Leader as Mayor Bob Gentry, Lida Lenney, Toni Iseman: all three were local officials and environmental activists. In my...

The Reality And The Noise After stumbling earlier this fall, the stock market resumed its uptrend. The aftermath of the elections spurred rumors that stocks...

An Inconvenient Truth  I have a childhood memory of my father reading Uncle Remus's stories from the old South. They were didactic fables, meaning they...

By Annlia Hill  Originally, mail was not delivered to homes but to post offices. Although free home delivery in the U.S. began in 1863 in...

Out of Covid By Ann Christoph In March of 2020, when the Covid lockdown began, I asked my doctor, “How long do you think this will...

Updated to reflect the correct number of permanent supportive housing units that the County voted to fund. - Ed. Women’s History Month, Sober Living Homes,...

Your Capacity to Love Since Valentine’s Day will be over by the time I write to you again, I thought I’d help get you prepared....

Your Rhythm and Timing Intuition has gotten a bum rap over the years. Contrary to popular belief, intuition isn’t a soft, inconsequential skill.    It has...

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....

In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden won 80 million popular votes to Trump's 74 million. In the Electoral College, Biden won 306 votes...

Sen. Klobuchar the One to Watch in 2020   Having left the comfort of Orange County to help produce a televised presidential debate from Des Moines...

Picture 79 million people, from Manhattan to Monterey, all with the same basic question on their minds—what’s coming? They’re the baby boomers, and according...

Feeling the Blues By Lynette Brasfield  One of my favorite books is “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)” by Jerome K....

Ghostly Path A post office without stamps, an emergency room without pillows? The poor, dedicated people working in these South Laguna facilities apologize, “We keep asking...