By Jim Tortolano In politics today, many people are claiming to speak for the Founding Fathers. But if they want to talk to the men and women who founded the United States […]
Give me liberty! … at Central Park
A new ball game for athletic facilities
By Jim Tortolano When voters in the Garden Grove Unified School District approved bond issues to modernize and improve facilities in the county’s third-largest public education system, they supported raising money not […]
Homeless plan approved after debate
By Jim Tortolano It took over a half-hour of sometimes heated debate, but the Westminster City Council on Tuesday night approved a “community improvement initiative” suggested by Councilman Sergio Contreras. The panel […]
Retorts: Is this what’s meant by vetting?
I’m a word guy. Using the right word is the key to most successful forms of communication. Telling a woman she is “so beautiful” will work a lot better than “hey, you […]
Jones: high hopes and high-rises for GG
By Jim Tortolano At times gleeful and at times a trifle nervous, Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones outlined a gleaming view of the community’s future in a speech Thursday at the annual […]
Retorts: Playing the name game to win
What’s in a name? Plenty. Some of us love our names; some of us rather squirm when we hear them. Some are so hard to accept that we gladly embrace whatever nickname […]
A split America goes “Into the Guns”
By Jim Tortolano There are shelves and shelves of what I call “apocalypse fiction.” These are books about the downfall of the world or just America. It could be aliens, zombies, disease […]
“Dog’s Purpose” barks up wrong tree
By Jim Tortolano Much has been made of the leaked video of a dog in distress shot during the making of “A Dog’s Purpose in Life.” That clip is probably going to […]
On Wednesday, it was Santiago’s night
By Jim Tortolano In a barnburner of a game featuring lots of floor burns, fouls and free throws, Santiago High’s boys’ basketball team toppled Bolsa Grande from its perch atop the Garden […]
Retorts: Do women march together?
There’s a song in the musical “City of Angels” entitled “What You Don’t Know About Women.” I think that could be one of my theme songs, being, as I am, one of […]
