We’re in Groundhog Day – going on day 16 or 18 or was it 20? Days are blurred now in a Twilight Zone milieu of waiting, waiting, flipping the laptop

I don’t know how Carl Goldman did it. Locked in his cruise ship room, tied to a dock but unable to leave for 15 days. Fifteen days in a 270-square-foot

The scenes would have been laughable if they weren’t so pathetic, illogical and disappointing. Lines and more lines around Costco’s, supermarkets, and just about any place else to buy stuff.

The picture shown is of a serene and idyllic day in May 1918. Row, row, row your boat gently up the Hudson. William Horton had married Emma Muldoon two short

Homelessness. The pandemic issue that has infected our body politic and raising our collective temperatures to boiling. We’ve got a fever and it’s not subsiding until our local and state

There are big, big, changes coming to your voting booth this upcoming primary election. Almost everything we’ve come to accept as standard and routine for how we vote has now

The season for political advertising and mailbox overloading has begun! Here we go again with all the fliers, post cards, and URGENT-labeled letters. One recently caught my attention. Mike Garcia

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstoock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan “Wheel of Fortune,”

These are disconcerting times for those paying close attention to the national news. There’s not much positive and a whole lot of troubling. An impeachment trial where our highest government

“We have been, I have been the most transparent president and administration in the history of the country by far.” So said Donald Trump back in April 2019 – as

The year, 2020: Back when I was a kid in the early ’60s in elementary school, I couldn’t imagine living to the year 2000, let alone 2020! It seemed all

Christmas, 2019. We made it! Despite all the vitriol, all the polarization, all the seething, name-calling, tweet-spewing, gut-wrenching, fit-inducing politics of this year – still, we made it again to

It seems to me, the greatest challenges of our time can all be rolled into one, giant over-arching concern:  That through recession recoil or internet onslaught burn-out or a recent

Our community is healing from the Saugus school shooting. We’ve come together and are committed to coming out of this a stronger community. This was a huge loss, and thank

It’s been a couple of weeks now. The shock is still there, but is fading with time, as expected. The appropriate silent respectful phase is phasing out — and soon

Our news has been bleak. Santa Clarita has suffered tragedy like none other here, before. And also fires. And, a continual run of traffic deaths… The news has been sad

America has some 45,000 to 60,000 homeless veterans on our streets. This Veterans Day, that statistic trended strong and emotionally raw, all over social media. American military veterans, we learn,

Other than an envelope of a suspicious “white powder” showing up at Katie Hill’s old Antelope Valley office, it’s been a pretty quiet Katie Hill week. Perhaps we’re all taking

Back in October 2018, I had the pleasure of personally interviewing Katie Hill during the peak of her election campaign. It was a great experience and I came away quite

Headlines are coming at us now so fast and furious it’s like we’re a batter facing nine pitchers at one time. There’s hardly time to read and absorb one disturbing