Commentaries

Regarding the Feb. 17 commentary by Doug Jenzen (“Stop paving paradise”): His three primary topics: 1) How poorly the Old Town neighborhood looks because of lack of planning. 2) Development is creating traffic jams, which in turn are creating the need for new roads for circulation because supervisors and developers have done “what they’ve pleased.” […]

Oprah and legions of other Central Coast admirers celebrate the many wonderful features that distinguish our area. The weather is fantastic, the open space is beautiful, and the people around Oprah and legions of other Central Coast admirers celebrate the many wonderful features that distinguish our area. The weather is fantastic, the open space is […]

The media are making a big deal about the earliest Baby Boomers turning 65. I’m not there quite yet (I’ll be 64 this month), but I do consider myself to be in the good company of the 70 million Boomers born between 1946 and 1960 or thereabouts. Some days I feel completely over the hill, […]

My health-care crisis is not national in scope. It does, however, involve all the elements necessary to be a crisis: money, emotional difficulty, pain, family discourse, faith, good doctors, bad doctors, amazing nursing care, insurance companies that do not respond to your requests, borderline bankruptcy, never-ending physical challenges, and the quintessential diagnosis of cancer in […]

Uncle Bob’s health changed for the worse at about 60. He had been on medication for a long time. It was the usual: blood pressure medication, cholesterol pills, diuretics, and others. As years went on, his list of medications grew. When he finally died after a long, painful, and slow spiral down,  everyone said, “Well, […]

Mother Teresa said it best: “We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with love.” One of the rarest commodities for many today is time, and giving of our time to volunteer is very precious indeed, but it is the best way I know to do small things with love. So […]

It’s been said that the greatest athletes in the world play basketball. Maybe that’s why Ali Langford took up the sport. The athletically gifted sophomore out of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been an Allan Hancock College Bulldog for only 10 weeks, but he’s already made quite an impact. Langford has been named a team […]