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 […]
Here soon: ‘summertime blues’
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 […]
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 […]
Retorts: Which is your favorite local supermarket and why?
So, there I was in Aisle 17 trying to decide which dog food was best for Shadow, the flat-coated retriever, when it occurred to me that I was semi-consciously comparing the […]
It’s hard to forgive Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda was in the news this week – national as well as local – when the Westminster City Council held a special meeting on Friday to pass a resolution demanding that […]
See future through the Smoke
The future has landed in Garden Grove’s Civic Center area. I’m not talking about the Civic Center Revitalization project; that undertaking – including a new police building with adjacent parking structure, as […]
Police facility is a smart move
A recent editorial in The Register claimed that Garden Grove simply couldn’t afford the bond issue to finance the construction of a new police facility (with adjacent parking structure) and a new […]
Opinion: It’s the pessimistic Streetcar Named Downer
As a character in an episode of the TV series “Justified” (one of my Top Five shows) – a bad guy– once said, “Negative thinking leads to negative results.” Not only […]
Opinion: Center city central to Garden Grove’s past, future
As a history buff, I never tire of trying to convince people of the connection between their past, the present and the future. That was done rather adroitly on Wednesday at the […]
