Guest Column | King City Tests Out Reverse Diagonal Parking
The City of King recently received almost $1 million in grants for implementation of the next phase of its downtown streetscape plan developed in 2017. The plan is designed to revitalize the downtown area, make it more pedestrian and bike oriented, and to increase...
Funny Papers Again Column | The Legacy of Writers
With the advent of 24-hour news coverage by numerous networks, we now have a multitude of current events coverage; coverage that invariably comes with opinion-fueled rhetoric offered up by everyone from professional pundits to amateur analysists and simpering sycophants to determined detractors. And with...
Worthy to Print Column | The Good Ones Always Leave Early
In 1940, American author Ernest Hemingway wrote a book named āFor Whom the Bell Tolls.ā It wasnāt his best book, but it had a few passages that reminded me this past week that he certainly had a way with words. The title of the...
Funny Papers Again Column | The Gradual Waning of American Shock
Saturday afternoon around 4:30 I was 410 words into my column for this week when my cell phone rang. The choice to interrupt a train of thought while writing usually falls to the ālet it ring and go to voicemailā protocol, but in this...
Window on the World Column | Rocket Man
It had been a long time coming. Our newsie friend moved from California a few decades back and had been asking us to come and visit for the longest time. There was always a reason we couldnāt make it. Why couldnāt we make it?...
Window on the World Column | Saying Goodbye With Peanut Butter
It was ending up as a regular Sunday ā for some a long holiday weekend even! Our old Queensland had been struggling for a while. Not running down the meadow like he used to or playing chase around the pool with the other canines,...
Worthy to Print Column | Will We Ever See Another 9/12?
Do you remember how you woke up on 9/11? Were you awakened by a friend who almost yelled at you to turn on the TV and see what was happening, or what you thought when you watched another plane crash into the World Trade...
Worthy to Print Column | Enjoying Life
I think this is a time for confessions. I donāt want you to know about all my transgressions, but I will admit I am a Hedonist. Good grief! That looks pretty bad if you donāt know the definition. I actually discovered the meaning of...




















