“The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” – Albert Einstein The conservative majority – OK, we’ll call it that for now – majority on the […]
City on a hill at Talbert Ave.
A real Santa Ana River with water? You can see that coming
Let’s play a little game called “Shoulda Seen That Coming.” The purpose is to guess whether or not something in the OC might reasonably be anticipated. Let’s get started. Some Huntington Beach […]
Is Disneyland in Garden Grove?
We’re back with our e-paper after a week of semi-relaxation. Here are two items that caught our attention. Did you know that – contrary to popular belief – Disneyland is actually located […]
HB council fiddles with politics as a wave of red ink looms
Oh, it just gets better, doesn’t it? That is, if you’re the kind of person who enjoys train wrecks and traffic accidents. I speak in these vague terms about Tuesday’s meeting of […]
Make your voices heard about the plans for the ‘new park’
The axiom, “You can’t please everyone” is one of great timeless truths of all eras. But you won’t have a chance at being pleased if you don’t let others know what you […]
Here soon: ‘summertime blues’
Memorial Day, or Memorial Day weekend, is often thought of now as the “unofficial beginning of summer.” Thinking of it that way seems to me as an inappropriate appropriation of what’s intended […]
Festival as time travel device
The Ferris wheel and carousels at Garden Grove’s annual Strawberry Festival are not just carnival devices to me. They’re more like colorful time machines. Every Memorial Day weekend the area in and […]
Let’s fix those broken cliches
Will Rogers once said that “It’s not so much what people don’t know that’s the problem; it’s what they think that ain’t so.” Well, ain’t that the truth? There so much that’s […]
Six very early NFL questions
We were in Oggi’s at Chapman and Harbor on Monday for lunch and one of the 500 (slight exaggeration) or so TV screen announced that it was 115 more days until opening […]
Outstanding “outsourcing”
So the majority on the Huntington Beach City Council last week turned back an effort to place proposed privatization of its city library system on the ballot for voters to decide. The […]
