Opinion

Letters to the Editor — Published July 25, 2018

To the Editor: Recently, I was reading the extensive Wikipedia Art Deco history website. In it, I was pleasantly surprised to see a photo of King City’s Stanton Auditorium featured as one of only four examples of “Late Deco” architecture. Like so many things, you can...

I don’t know what happened. We skipped through Halloween, enjoyed a nice, peaceful Thanksgiving and then all heck broke loose. I took an early Christmas delivery to my dad and sister overseas — and how organized was I! Even had the holiday gift bags...

Window on the World: Column by Lucy Jensen

To the Editor: If you are outraged or simply concerned about what is unfolding on our streets and in our neighborhoods, please join us this Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. to speak out. It is the “Good Trouble Lives On” day of nationwide protests,...

Was there ever a time in your life when you may have done something that was frowned upon by all that knew you? I wish I was smart enough to explain to you what I am thinking about, but when I scratch out a...

It’s about this time of year that I look for her even more often. It is the season of the long sunny days and twinkly black-night skies. It is the season of the dragonfly. Whenever I see my first dragonfly of the year, I...

“I’m a traveler,” I brag, as people wow at my ability to whoosh through time zones without a care or jet-laggy attitude in the world. Well, mostly. I remember a pilot friend of mine telling me that anytime you land where you intended to...

“Don’t bite the hand that feeds you” is an old adage most of us have heard with full understanding of its meaning. It only makes sense, providing one has any sense, to refrain from damaging that which makes survival possible. Now, after reading the...

It would be an understatement to say that 2020 has been a difficult year. By all standards, our world seems to have been turned upside down. From the small things that we took for granted, to larger, more important things, like our relationships with...