Tag: Columnist
Funny Papers Again Column | A Royal Mess, a Royal Lady...
This week’s Funny Papers Again column will not appear in this space. Instead, some other nonsense will appear here. The reason for this is...
Worthy to Print Column | Bringing Our Troops Home
I haven’t tried to hide the fact that I have no admiration for our present President. I could just sit here and write down...
Window on the World Column | The Dump Trailer
You know you are middle-aged, or frankly on the wrong side of the bridge, if you get excited about a dump trailer. It’s a...
Funny Papers Again Column | It Was Convivial on the Alluvial
Some years back there was a fellow in Greenfield who owned an airplane, and as I had no qualms about flying in a small...
Worthy to Print Column | I’ve Got a Feeling
You ever wake up in a funk? When I awoke this morning, I had the terrible feeling of doom. I don’t know why I...
Window on the World Column | Words and Memories With Friends
We have been playing online “Words with Friends” for a good while now. When she first started, I could beat her rather successfully. Nowadays,...
Funny Papers Again Column | Lit Skies, Festooned Floats and Honored...
Monterey County Third District Supervisor Chris Lopez and I crossed byways here awhile back when neither of us had anything to do; well, I...
Worthy to Print Column | Hello, It’s Me Again
You may have noticed, or not noticed may be correct, that my smooth young face has been missing from this esteemed periodical for 14...
Funny Papers Again Column | A Skater, A Dancer and in...
Way back in the mid-60s when just a lad in Greenfield, I owned a “skurfboard”; you read that correctly, a skurfboard. This was one...
Funny Papers Again Column | The Long, Lazy, Hazy Days of...
“The Arroyo Seco River begins its life far atop the Santa Sierra Range of Monterey County where its headwaters rapidly flow downward through gorges...
Local News
Bay Area man gets 150 years to life in prison for...
GONZALES — Tele Matangi, 37, of Pittsburg, was sentenced to 150 years to life in prison on May 29 after being found guilty by...
