I have recently emerged – along with my brilliant bride – from the darkest depths of today’s modern most heartless society: customer “service.” In too many settings, the term is an oxymoron, […]
Back in Rhode Island, where I come from, water was for fishing, not for swimming. No one in my family ever learned to swim once we moved out to the Pacific Coast, […]
Monday is April Fool’s Day. Of course, you might remark that during an election year, every day is April Fool’s Day and you’re not far from wrong. Here are a few favorite […]
Are you sure you want this fight? At Tuesday’s meeting of the Huntington Beach City Council, the majority voted in favor of establishing a parent-guardian committee to review the “sex content” of […]
Of all the institutions I was involved with in my youth growing up in Orange County, the one that never disappointed or caused me grief was the local library. We lived about […]
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” ––Ernest Benn Well, there’s no getting around it now. […]
Election Day is over … mostly. I say mostly because ballots mailed on Tuesday but not yet arrived and/or tabulated are still out there in Vox Populi Limbo. As of this writing […]
As reported in The Tribune on Wednesday, Huntington Beach and Garden Grove were recently rated two of the “happiest cities” in the United States by WalletHub.com. Surf City is 12th and The […]
When I was 8 or 9 years old I was busted for the crime of running through the swings at Evans Elementary School, and sent to the principal’s office. I was stunned. […]
Reenactment of wars and other historical events is a popular avocation and an American Revolution event is coming to Huntington Beach’s Central Park on March 2 and 3. There’s been Civil War […]
