Window on the World Column | Medical Adulting
There are things in life you literally jump at the opportunity to do ⦠ooh, meet for lunch in Carmel, go and catch a show, take the dogs to the beach? Medical adulting is not one of them. I go to Sacramento to see...
Window on the World Column | Olive and Mabel, Mary and Tony
During the last several months of Covid ā or the ongoing lifetime of this pandemic, depending on how you feel about it ā people and dogs seem to have become even closer. Record adoption levels at shelters were noted the world over. People needed...
Guest Column | King City Begins Traffic Enforcement Program
The City of King has received an increasing number of calls from citizens regarding excessive speeding in residential neighborhoods. As a result, the King City Police Department applied for and received approval for two state grants totaling $102,500 to increase outreach, enforcement and technology.
The...
Window on the World Column | Loving Our Vandura
When you are crawling toward 24 years of marriage and over 26 together, the fireworks are not always going off, unless the neighbor decides that the Fourth of July cannot come soon enough. You are mostly like two comfortable-ish chairs, grumbling about the thing...
Letter to the Editor | Supervisorās Support Critical in Advancing Broadband Infrastructure
To the Editor:
The California State Association of Counties (CSAC) ā the voice of Californiaās 58 Counties ā would like to thank Monterey County Supervisor Luis Alejo for his strong leadership in supporting Broadband for All in the California State Budget.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed...
Worthy to Print Column | Letās Go Truckinā
Did I ever tell you about my pickup? Oh, no need to reply. If I go one day without speaking about the āGreen Machine,ā I start to get the shakes and Lorraine runs out of the room. Donāt get me wrong, she knew that...
Funny Papers Again Column | Personal Reactions to an Unanticipated Comment and an Anticipated Reunion
The first part of todayās Funny Papers Again column is an off-handed comment on the present politically charged situation, so if you are as fed up with anything even slightly political, just skip to below the three asterisks and read on.
In last weekās column,...
Worthy to Print Column | Thank You to All the Fallen
As I get older, I find myself forgetting even the simplest of things. Do you ever have that problem? I guess it is like everything else. I just have to get used to the idea that I am not Superman. Oh! There was a...




















