Back in Rhode Island, where I come from, water was for fishing, not for swimming. No one in my family ever learned to swim once we moved out to the Pacific Coast, […]
Opinion: Parks deserves water
Opinion: Abe Rifule recalled
Monday is April Fool’s Day. Of course, you might remark that during an election year, every day is April Fool’s Day and you’re not far from wrong. Here are a few favorite […]
Opinion: Welcome to kitty diner
We have cats like some people have gophers. The difference is that most folks spend some money and labor in getting rid of their critters, while we subsidize ours. It all started […]
Opinion: What will the Teamsters have to say?
Are you sure you want this fight? At Tuesday’s meeting of the Huntington Beach City Council, the majority voted in favor of establishing a parent-guardian committee to review the “sex content” of […]
Opinion: A new era of judging a book by its partisan cover
Of all the institutions I was involved with in my youth growing up in Orange County, the one that never disappointed or caused me grief was the local library. We lived about […]
Opinion: Voter fraud, rigged elections? There’s no proof yet
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” ––Ernest Benn Well, there’s no getting around it now. […]
Opinion: Wouldn’t it be ironic?
Election Day is over … mostly. I say mostly because ballots mailed on Tuesday but not yet arrived and/or tabulated are still out there in Vox Populi Limbo. As of this writing […]
Opinion: The time when the ballot boxes went to dinner
Precinct 54, Where Are You Dept?.: On the subject of ballot security this election week, a True Story from the vault. Many years ago, Garden Grove held its municipal elections in April […]
Opinion: Why Garden Grove, Huntington Bch. are so happy
As reported in The Tribune on Wednesday, Huntington Beach and Garden Grove were recently rated two of the “happiest cities” in the United States by WalletHub.com. Surf City is 12th and The […]
Opinion: Tribune recommends voting no on A & B, yes on E
The Orange County Tribune is a non-partisan news organization and we do not endorse candidates for public office. But we do make recommendations on ballot measures such as tax matters, city council […]
