Tag: Opinion
Guest Column | A Call to Action for Heart Health
Every February, the nation comes together to recognize American Heart Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about heart disease.
It’s essential to be aware...
Window on the World Column | TAILS in Soledad — Part...
The inmate trainers at CTF explained to me that dogs in the TAILS program are immediately crate trained when they arrive in the facility...
Funny Papers Again Column | Some Rants and Raves Both Good...
I often tell people how difficult it can be to put 1,000 words together every week with the expectation those words will somehow make...
Worthy to Print Column | The Care and Training of a...
You have to admit, I haven’t glorified the actions of those that would like to see us at the bottom of the ocean. However,...
Window on the World Column | TAILS in Soledad — Part...
Driving into the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad and you are reminded of how a secure institution can be. Acres of barren land, no...
Funny Papers Again Column | Not Feeling Grounded? Go Barefootin’ and...
No matter how I may wish to deny I am old, at two years and seven decades it is nonetheless a fact and, having...
Worthy to Print Column | Saying Goodbye to a Legend —...
They say that the “Good Die Young.” I don’t know about all of the young, but I do know that there is one young man...
Window on the World Column | Regret for the Things That...
We should go, shouldn’t we? Shouldn’t we go? Life happens when you are busy making other plans. And isn’t that always the way. My...
Funny Papers Again Column | If Grandma and Peter Did It,...
I have for many years been a reader of biographies, a habit I got into way back in the early 1960s after my parents...
Guest Column | The American Dream: How We Lost Our Way...
In 1986 I worked for California’s Employment Development Department, where I processed amnesty seekers under President Ronald Reagan’s landmark immigration reform law called Immigration...
Local News
Soledad man charged with lewd acts involving child
SOLEDAD — A 52-year-old Soledad man was arrested last Tuesday following an investigation into allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct involving an 8-year-old girl, according...
