We’re only a little past halfway through the year, and things are already weird enough for a full 12 months, or even a decade. Looking at or reading the national news is […]
Light at the tunnel’s end?
Idea that’s one for the books
I don’t have a bucket list; what I have is a shopping list. And it’s not for me, it’s for the community. Recently the City of Garden Grove held an open house […]
Welcome back to our Festival!
It’s amazing the things one can take for granted. As Joni Mitchell sang (and wrote), “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” Gone for two years was the Garden Grove […]
Was Willowick a bad bet?
The transformation of the Willowick Golf Course from an affordable set of links into a huge moneymaker was always a little like drawing to an inside straight in poker. Possible, but not […]
A welcome to our Little Kyiv
“Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes.” – Walt Whitman Our cities here in Orange County have sometimes been imagined as strongholds of white middle class folks, as homogenized as Wonder […]
Retorts: The clock is running out
The last time an Orange County city tried something this reckless, it was almost never heard from again. Back in 1911 the residents of a community then called Benedict incorporated as the […]
Vlad’s mystical “superpower”
What’s your superpower? I mean, short of being a strange visitor from another planet or coming in possession of a magic ring, hammer or sword, what would give you powers and abilities […]
The grass is green here, too…
Don’t leave! This is the time of year, it seems, when a lot of leaders in our communities are moving on to – or at least trying to – what I call […]
Retorts: Speak softly, or don’t
There’s only a short time until the end of the year, so it’s time for a short column with some short quotes about the issues of the day. Coronavirus “When you wrestle […]
A different guide to the holidays
If you’re like most of us, you are hip-deep in the holiday season. Regardless of your spiritual affiliation, you are stuck in Christmasland for the next two weeks or so, so […]
