Guest Column | CSU Monterey Bay Earns Carnegie ‘Research College’ Classification for Research Excellence
The Carnegie Classification is a leading framework for recognizing the diversity of U.S. higher education institutions. Last fall, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching updated the framework of classifications and now includes a new category — “Research Colleges and Universities” — which...
Window on the World Column: Motherhood is Not for Wimps
How did my child just turn 26? It sometimes feels as if it was yesterday that she popped into the world. I recall so clearly the labor — 24 hours and counting in all, before they cut her out of me (when initially I...
Worthy to Print Column | Happy to Be Alive
Well I believe that I have seen the gates of hell. I even feel that I was on my way through those rusty jagged portals when I turned around and saw my wonderful wife who shooed away all the bad parts of my life...
Window on the World Column | Unmasked and Unaware
I had always been pretty proud of us. From the moment we were able, it was off to the pharmacy we went. Another shot? Yes please. With all the horror stories and truths from 2020 still fresh in everyone’s minds, we did not want...
Guest Column | Reading the Haggadah in Berlin
It is an uncommon occurrence in my own life to find myself in a situation where I become distinctly and acutely aware that I am—in that moment—a minority. This once occurred when I attended a young adult LGBTQ organization in Long Beach, where black...
Worthy to Print Column | Rock ’N’ Roll Forever
If you have been a reader of my scribbling, you are aware that I’m not a huge fan of the computer age. I use it often, but I sure hate to. It seems like I’m always having a problem with an assignment or order...
Worthy to Print Column: Wanna Ride?
Gosh, it seems just like yesterday, yet we find ourselves still being told to batten down the hatches as we still have a long way to go. Has it really only been eight months? Ah, but not to worry. The Federal Government is on...
Letters to the Editor for Week of July 26
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Funny Papers Again Column | A Mile a Minute Will Get You There
Many moons ago on Highway 101 just north of Greenfield there was an odometer check. This consisted of four signs, the first starting a few hundred yards shy of Hudson Road, marked Mile 0, Mile 1, Mile 2, Mile 3 and finally Mile 4....
Worthy to Print Column | How Was Your Christmas?
I don’t know if I will see you or speak to you before Good Old Santa comes sliding down the chimney. I like to tell folks “Merry Christmas” during this holiday. I sometimes forget to say it if the conversation is short. But most of...
