Village Matters
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...
Opinion: Common Sense
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...
Shore Scene
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....
Opinion: Village Matters
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....
Opinion: Wisdom Workout
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...
Opinion: Starting a New Career Later in Life
Dear Susi Q,
I'm 53, currently an English teacher, and likely to retire in the next couple of years. It's always been a dream of...
Opinion: Village Matters
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...
Opinion: Musings on the Coast
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...
Opinion: Musings on the Coast
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...
Opinion: Say it Ain’t So, Mo
Dear Mo,
Oh, how we wanted to love ya. At least some of us. A benevolent local entrepreneur who would revive some of our aging,...
Opinion: Norman Rest – An Appreciation
I have written previously about my fears of a tragic outcome between the burgeoning adolescent electric bike community and our aging population of motorists....
The Slant: Where Ghosts Still Roam
Does the idea of going to Oak Street seem frighting this year? Or the prospect of staying at home on Halloween just plain scary....
Opinion: Finding Meaning
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...
Column: Green Light
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...
Opinion: Pet Peeves
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,...