With all the partisan bickering clogging up the airwaves lately and obscuring the more vital news of the day, it’s difficult at times to differentiate between what’s a legitimate concern and mere spin.
It seems that last week’s debacle concerning a misleading staff report to City Council wasn’t an isolated incident. Last Monday, I wrote about Housing and Economic Development Department Director Andy Agle’s request for City Council approval to negotiate exclusively with AMC Theaters to build and op
No one denies that California has a daunting road ahead as the state works toward economic recovery. As a business owner, I certainly don’t have all the answers, but I do know that legal reform would be a step in the right direction.
As a boy, my favorite aunt was named Amelia. I didn’t have grandparents and Amelia didn’t have kids. Consequently, she was always my biggest fan. Amelia loved gambling (and men) so we’d go to Las Vegas on the train.
An entire runway collection begins with a single pillowcase. Last week, I took an intro to sewing class, along with five other women, at the Urban Craft Center on Main Street.
Dear Rachel, Help! My stress level is off the charts. My boyfriend’s mood swings are making my life a living hell. He can be unbelievably sweet for about a week but inevitably his temper blows no matter what I do.
For a while I was worried about how to best ensure my daughter was getting the proper nutrients in her diet. However, I’ve come to realize that while I’m some 38 inches taller and many, many pounds heavier than her (not to mention much more adept at using my thumbs and other fingers), I’m still most
Dear New Shrink, My sister and brother are both UC students and I expected that I would also get into a UC, too. Even though we have about the same GPA and SAT scores, I am attending a local college instead.
The expression “you have to learn how to walk before you can run” holds true in many aspects of life. The expression means you have to do step “A” before you can do step “B.
I’ve heard the expressions “crap flows down hill” and “good cop/bad cop” thousands of times, but I never understood them until last week. Oddly, it was the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System who brought those phrases into focus at the monthly meeting on the progress of the decade-long c
I love my cigar! The partaking of a fine Honduran panatela approaches near divinity especially while club hunting hope-and-change unicorns with my Tiger Woods 9 iron.
Mysterious pre-Incan peoples ruled present-day Chile, Peru and Bolivia. From the arid northern coastal plains of Peru rose the blood thirsty Moche. And from the Altiplano Plateau — second highest plateau in the world — 2 miles above sea level and 994 miles southeast of the Moche peoples, rose the mi
