Opinion

When a writer is telling a story, varying audiences must be kept in mind, this can reveal differing descriptions of people, places and events about the same subject. I recently found an example of variations in the writings of none other than our own...

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I often tell people how difficult it can be to put 1,000 words together every week with the expectation those words will somehow make sense and in so doing entertain readers for a few minutes. I tell people this because it is easy to...

When I was a young man — oh, about 12 — I wondered why we even had to go to school. I got along with all my classmates and even liked my teacher, but on a day when the sun was out and the...

“When South County Animal Rescue (SCAR) was founded at the beginning of 2016, I’m not sure what we honestly expected. We knew that there was lots of work to be done and it wouldn’t be easy, but there was a gap in our communities...

The good and bad aspects of choosing a title line (see above) for a column is once up there, the writer is bound to it throughout the piece. If the writer adheres to the subject of the title throughout all is well, but if...

The City of King conducts a citywide survey every two years to get feedback from the public on customer satisfaction and to help prioritize the use of available resources. The City recently completed tabulating the results of the 2020 survey and the highest priority...

Downtown Soledad on a Saturday can be a bustling little place. People’s comings and goings to the hardware store, the barber or the pharmacy. Getting an ice cream or some Mexican food for the family. Normal life is slowly returning. I had a mission...

I was attending a baseball game on the Greenfield Elementary School grounds when a car pulled up next to the entrance gate on 10th Street. It was a black four-door Ford, just like the ones the FBI drove on television, with two men in...

To the Editor: When are the Democrats in office going to grow a pair and speak out, get in front of a microphone, get on TV? Every day, Democrats should be talking about the lies, talking about Project 2025. Their messaging is terrible. When are...