Columns

By Annlia Hill In the 1890s, inland visitors came to Laguna to escape the heat and they came on horseback or horse-drawn vehicles. The Concord...

The Third Year Theme This, the third year of the presidential election cycle, has historically been very favorable for the stock market. That’s good news...

As Good a Place as Any Every Christmas we trek to be with our families to Arizona, the least favorite of any of the places...

By Mike Beanan New water supplies can address Laguna’s annual need for protection from wildfires for the next 30 years. Two plans have been proposed....

The Fix Is In The stock market continues its uneasy equilibrium. After a slow start earlier this year, the economy inched ahead in July and...

Pondering a Question from a Four-Year-Old By Lynette Brasfield Q: Grandma, how did you get so old? A (somewhat) tongue-in-cheek answer from Grandma Lynette Luck, my dear Gwynn,...

High Holy Days Primer Mistakes? I’ve made a few. Some—like typos—are innocent and easily remedied. Others—like offenses against moral beliefs—invite penance. Religions concur on the...

Have You Lost the Magic? Can you remember back to an earlier time, somewhere around age 14 or 15, when great expectations lived in your...

By Kate Rogers, Special to the Independent Laguna school Supt. Sherine Smith and other district leaders discussed the newly adopted Common Core curriculum standards that...

By Louis Weil, candidate for Laguna Beach City Council   If there’s one thing that recent candidate forums have made clear, it’s this: we all love...

Before South of Mission in San Francisco there was SoHo in New York, and now NoHo and The Bowery, and every city seems to...

The Bard of Laguna “Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his...

By Arnie Silverman   Secular scholars believe that the 2,000-3,000-year old story of Purim is pseudo-history.  In the story, a Persian king chooses the beautiful Esther...

It sure was a dank Monday here at the beach, but there was bright sunshine all day at Top of the World. As long as you were above about 500 feet the skies were good to go. That’s how condensed the marine layer was today. Sure it was cold and clammy at the beach, but it’s O.K because like the old saying goes, the worst day in Laguna is 40,000 times better than the best day in Pomona!

By Alex Rounaghi, City Council Candidate “In God we trust. Everyone else bring data.” I’ve referenced this Michael Bloomberg quote many times throughout my City...