If you followed this year’s elections, at some point the question probably occurred to you: Why do people do this? The endless campaign events, the constant scrutiny… and increasingly, the very real and alarming threat of political violence. What drives someone to put up with it all? I ...

There’s been a lot of talk regarding the North County Water District lately. I think some questions should be answered before any further consideration takes place in the village. Who on the board has a personal, monetary or any other vested interest in this project? I ask because if ...

Let’s pick up where we left off last week. Yes, teachers have amusing – sometimes even hilarious – stories about their adventures. Yet until you’ve stood in teachers’ shoes, you have no idea how hard the job can be. ¯ ¯ ¯ Is teaching the hardest job there is? No, of course ...

Occasionally, I give speeches, usually about my good old days working for an airline. My title for this 25-minute tell-all speech is “Blue Skies and Barf Bags.” The title pretty much says it all: It WAS WONDERFUL. Except for those few yucky moments when it wasn’t. If you are under 50, ...

It was more of a pink ebb tide rather than a red wave but at least the midterm elections are over along with the continuous, and repetitive coverage on the news channels. I am interested in elections and the impact they have on our republic but for the last few weeks, the coverage became so ...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” That famous phrase from Charles Dickens sums up the double-edged sword hanging over the roughly 63 million Americans now getting monthly retirement payouts from Social Security. Their 2022 COLA (cost-of-living adjustment) rose by ...