By Jim Tortolano A crowd of hundreds thronged the front lawn of the Westminster Civic Center Monday night for the annual Tree-Lighting Ceremony and Holiday Community Sing. The event was kicked off […]
“Tis the season” for tree-lighting, song
Retorts: Christmas is good, why not two?
If you’ve been listening to the radio in your car, you’re probably familiar with the song “We Need A Little Christmas.” I agree, but my position is that we not only need […]
“Fantastic Beasts” starts slow, speeds up
By Jim Tortolano The original “Harry Potter” series of movies started off wonderfully but eventually lapsed into repetition and almost self-parody. There’s a new series of J.K. Rowling tales coming to the […]
Retorts: Where we stand, or lie down
The Orange County Tribune has been “live” as a news site for about three months now, and folks are asking me, “How’s it going?” and “Why on earth would you retire, then […]
Women made big strides election day
By Jim Tortolano The voters nationally may not have chosen a woman to be their next president, but female candidates did pretty well in municipal elections last week in the Garden Grove-Huntington […]
Santiago honors veterans and their day
By Jim Tortolano It was called The War to End All Wars, the Great War, or the World War. It ended on Nov. 11, 1918 a date originally honored as Armistice Day […]
Retorts: The deep political divide remains
Democracy, it’s said, is the proposition that 51 percent of the public is right 51 percent of the time. That may be true, but the results of Tuesday’s election suggests that experts […]
Retorts: Electing after Election Day
I liked the old sergeant who said, “Every day is election day.” What he meant had more to do with him asserting the premise that he was the toughest son-of-a-buck in the […]
Path for memorials in parks outlined
By Jim Tortolano The path to the possible establishment of a memorial to “Black April” – the fall of South Vietnam to communist forces in 1975 – was made more clear at […]
Reunions can truly reunite people
It was 20 years ago today … no, wait. Thirty years. No, 40. Who wants to go for 45? If you’ve never been to a high school reunion – either because you […]
