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March 7, 2026

Window on the World Column | The Staples of Life

Lucy Jensen
ā€œDo you have to put those in?ā€ I enquired of the medical expert, when he was trying to explain the procedure to me. ā€œYes, they are the best!ā€ he replied. ā€œSurely there is a less tortuous way to achieve the same end?ā€ I continued, only...

Letter to the Editor: Reader’s View of Ballot Choices

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Window on the World Column | The Mysterious Tale of Two Chains

Lucy Jensen
I can only attribute it to wedding brain or, perhaps, the sad story of the lost memory. The last few weeks running up to my daughter’s wedding were borderline insane — the details, followed by more details, checks and rechecks, lists made and lost....

Funny Papers Again Column | From Russia Without Love

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...

Window on the World Column | The Call of the Sea

I was born on the East Coast of England and many of my formative years were spent by, in and on the North Sea. To this day I still feel the call of the water. It’s so primal. Not just that water, all bodies...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Closed Park Has No Spark

This week’s headline is bit light-hearted, I thought it would help ease you folks into helping out with a situation here in Salinas Valley that for many is not a light subject at all. I am talking about the long closure of San Lorenzo...

Guest Column | Let’s Move District 18 into the Future with Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren

The vast majority of American politicians are in the business of kicking the can down the road, with one notable exception: Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren. I know ā€œkicking the can down the roadā€ is an old clichĆ© used to reference the arms race, federal budget, childcare,...

Funny Papers Again Column | What a Long, Strange (Round) Trip It’s Been

Today’s Funny Papers will be a bit abbreviated for no particular reason other than I have so much to write about there isn’t room in one, or 10, columns, so I’ll make it brief. For those unaware, which is I suppose most of you,...

Worthy to Print Column: I had an epiphany

Have you noticed that we have a bunch of folks that have too much time on their hands? It wouldn’t be so bad if they used this extra time to do something good, but they seem hell-bent to destroy neighborhoods. By the way, they...

King City approves street improvement plan

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