Sometimes, it’s a good idea to say what you think. Angels manager Ron Washington got in a spot of trouble this week when he suggested that the Halos didn’t have major league-quality […]
Right the first time, Ron
Justice for all, not just for us
Ten people, including two professors, will face misdemeanor charges of refusing to disperse as police tried to clear the University of California, Irvine campus of encampments in May created to demonstrate for […]
Retorts: Time for ‘tough love’
Cities all across our West Orange County and – and probably – all across California are busy composing anti-camping ordinances aimed at clearing clusters of homeless people creating impromptu settlements on public […]
Hey, use your thinkers, voters!
Now, wasn’t that an interesting debate? One candidate said the foreign leaders would “eat the lunch” of the other candidate, while the other claimed that a town in the Midwest is plagued […]
Is mixed-use trend a sort of a mix-up for Orange County?
I don’t suppose that in the midst of an historic presidential election, the beginning of the NFL season and the stretch run of the baseball pennant (and playoff) races many people are […]
White Sox are making history
The Chicago White Sox are about to make history. Bad history. Oh, it’s not quite as awful as the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal in which eight members of the team accepted bribes […]
The two minutes that added so very much to pro football
There have been a lot of changes in big-time sports since the first caveman invented the Cover 2 defense or the alternate possession rule, but one innovation stands out above them all […]
Curling in the Olympics? How about some parallel parking?
As someone who thinks that skateboarding, “sport climbing” and “breaking” belong in the Olympics about as much as hopscotch and beer pong, I am always amused by the long-gone sports that seem […]
GG and Anaheim: pals forever
For many years, Garden Grove lived in the virtual shadow of Anaheim and the Mouse. If you were out of town, and someone asked you where you were from, the dialogue went […]
Water element, new stage possible for new park
By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune Plans for the Civic Center Revitalization Project for Garden Grove came into sharper focus at Tuesday’s open house in the Courtyard Center on Main Street. City officials […]
