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 […]
It’s hard to forgive Jane Fonda
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 […]
Opinion: Customer “service” can end up being quite elusiive
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, […]
Opinion: Parks deserves water
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, […]
Opinion: Abe Rifule recalled
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 […]
Opinion: What will the Teamsters have to say?
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 […]
Opinion: A new era of judging a book by its partisan cover
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 […]
