Tag: Opinion
Funny Papers Again Column | Row, Row, Row Your Boat Gently...
At the present moment I am, to put it poetically, “far from the madding crowd,” I don’t even know who is headed to the...
Worthy to Print Column | Just Write About It
I’m sure you remember that my bride and I invited her mother to come live with us. It was a very fortunate gesture on...
Window on the World Column | The Atmospheric River
I love this time of year, when the “storm window” opens, the water possibilities increase ten-fold and the population of our desiccated West Coast...
Funny Papers Again Column | KCHS Swag and Cringe: Kudos and...
What? You don’t know the present use of the words “swag” and “cringe”? Well, I didn’t either until I read it in context in...
Guest Column | Keeping Our Focus on Health, Safety
If you live in South Monterey County, you are among more than 60 million rural Americans. American Community Survey statistics show that Maine and...
Worthy to Print Column | 33 Years and Counting
Thirty-three years. I started to just put the numbers on the page, but no matter whether you spell it out or use the numbers,...
Window on the World Column | Olive and Mabel, Mary and...
During the last several months of Covid — or the ongoing lifetime of this pandemic, depending on how you feel about it — people...
Letter to the Editor | Rally to Protect Communities From Harmful...
To the Editor:
The organization Safe Ag, Save Schools (SASS) is working under the umbrella of Californians for Pesticide Reform to bring back, and...
Funny Papers Again Column | All the World’s a Stage, and...
I recently mentioned to my boss Ryan that Funny Papers Again seemed be leaning more to light stuff rather than some of the heavier...
Worthy to Print Column | Time for Confession
This is confession time. We columnists sometimes have difficulties coming up with an article that will be enjoyed by you, the reader. Something on...
Local News
Salinas Valley Health’s NICU Graduate Reunion scores home run with celebration
SALINAS VALLEY — Nearly 500 parents, children, physicians, nurses and staff recently gathered for Salinas Valley Health’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Graduate Reunion,...
