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Prehistoric Creatures Close-up  Chitonsare primitive marine mollusks resembling trilobites whose fossil record can be traced back to the Devonian Period over 400 million years ago....

Why I Support the Downtown Specific Plan By Tyler Russell McCusker As Morgan Freeman says in my favorite film Shawshank Redemption: “Andy had to crawl through...

(Full disclosure: I co-own a bike tour business in Laguna.) I’m sorry to say this, but I fear it’s just a matter of time...

Supporting Our Musicians By Tyler Russell McCusker For many musicians, the “rockstar” life can become a nightly chore. You schlep your PA system to...

Assessing the Damage By Susan McNeal Velasquez It is time to take stronger control of our physical, mental and emotional energies as we face the continued...

Dark Money Running Laguna Now By Michèle Monda The City Council accepted $20,000 from the Chamber of Commerce to help fund a parking structure study. The...

It’s Never Enough No matter how carefully researched and presented. No matter how polite. No matter how heartfelt. No matter how true. It doesn’t matter; testimony from much of...

I have written previously about my fears of a tragic outcome between the burgeoning adolescent electric bike community and our aging population of motorists....

This Ain’t Chicago The more we open space we save, the more we preserve the character of our town—the more some are seeing unmined riches....

Bloomin’ for better The plants are here to cheer us up. Blooming their peduncles out! It’s as though they’re saying, “we know what you’re going...

Bad News By Michael Ray It was the early spring 2002 when my brother Walkie called. He was  Chair of the Foundation for the Orange County...

Fact Checking Claims Against Liberate Laguna Well, here we are at the post-Labor Day formal beginning of another political season. At the national level, it...

Laguna’s Olympic Village The 2020 Summer Olympics would have started today in Tokyo except for the coronavirus pandemic. To salve the loss, let’s go back...

Laguna Rotary Means Business on Climate Change  “Imagine the Earth as our patient,” local physician Gary Stewart told an audience of some 30 Laguna Beach...

PAC Man By Mark Crantz Let’s start with something that everybody agrees on. Laguna Beach is great. That’s why 23,000 of us live here. Okay then,...