Things are feeling a bit strange. After many, many alien invasion, UFO-sighting movies and TV series, we finally have some unidentified flying objects to worry about. The comforting news is that we […]
Who will save us now?
A very noteworthy parade
Grace under pressure. That’s a nice thing to have. I refer in this particular case to the 2023 Tet Parade in Westminster last week. This has been an annual event observing the […]
The point is: get to the point
There’s an old saying that goes, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” To that I wish to add this corollary: “Democracy delayed is democracy denied.” At the most recent meeting of the […]
Retorts: The future is soon
Time travel has long been a popular fantasy … who hasn’t imagined traveling into the future to see what it holds for us, or going back into the past to right a […]
The OC’s (always) changing face
“Distant hands in foreign lands are turning hidden wheels/Causing things to come about which no one seems to feel Invisible from where we stand, the connections come to pass/And though too strange […]
“Surf City” makes a right turn
With the elections over … well, mostly over … it’s time to take a look at what that portends and what 2023 might bring to us in the West Orange County area. […]
What’s scary this October?
To paraphrase Ray Bradbury, something weird this way comes. We are well into October and just a few weeks from election day, so there are two reasons to be scared. The first […]
With that old-ish gang of mine
History isn’t the past. In fact, it’s not even over. As much as we try to disassociate ourselves from things than have gone before, they continue to shape and influence our present-day […]
Yes, there is some good news
The news business is, I’m sorry to say, largely about bad news. Readers and viewers respond with more attention – generally – to deadly car crashes, love triangles ending in shootings, and […]
Six years old and growing
This week marks the six-year anniversary of the debut of The Orange County Tribune, the news operation serving the communities of Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Stanton and Westminster. Changing reading habits, business […]
