Tag: Opinion
Funny Papers Again Column | Notes From the 365 Little Squares...
An end of the year, month-by-month chronicling of stand-out events of the past year is an age-old newspaper tradition, and as I have never...
Worthy to Print Column | Keep Our Troops in Your Thoughts
I suppose there is a time in everyone’s lives that stand out as a particularly emotional passing. Perhaps you can remember this time with...
Window on the World Column | The Shopping Cart
It was very late by the time we headed south for our annual shopping weekend in Paso Robles. There is something about traveling south...
Funny Papers Again Column | 14 Days of the Sights and...
As Planet Earth nears the end of another orbit around the sun, many in the United States observe Christmas Day. It’s celebrated as a...
Guest Op-Ed | A Senator for all Californians
During the course of my Senate campaign, I did my best to visit communities throughout this big, beautiful state and get to know the...
Window on the World Column | The Christmas Cracker
In England, the shops are now full of Christmas crackers — every shape and size and decoration of cracker can be found, lining the...
Funny Papers Again Column | Puzzles, Parades and Pepper’s Salty Words
I am not sure what mental quirk, not a medical term, takes place in brain wave synapses, a medical term, triggers a memory which...
Worthy to Print Column | To Those Who Inspire
One of the best things about writing for this periodical is the trip I often take as I try to find a subject that...
Guest Column | Preventing and Managing Diabetes: A Proactive Approach to...
Throughout the year, and especially during November, National Diabetes Month, Mee Memorial works to educate the community about diabetes prevention and management.
Diabetes starts when...
Funny Papers Again Column | Dreams Only Exist When Asleep; When...
A couple of weeks ago I said I was going to steer clear of any political stuff; but a writer writes what is in...
Local News
Greenfield man admits to prison smuggling scheme
GREENFIELD — A former California prison lieutenant from Greenfield pleaded guilty Oct. 20 to conspiring to smuggle contraband into Salinas Valley State Prison in...
