Garlic Don’s 60th
Don Christopher wears a crisp, dark shirt embroidered with a 60-year medallion over the pocket. It commemorates a proud achievement for a business, but dresses a walking portal to history with a encyclopedic recall, a window into an how the global agricultural revolution underwent transformation during the second half of the 20th Century, and in Don’s case, transformed a community.
Guest View: Unions make major push
This has been a year of labor unrest in California, a state in which unions represent a relatively small faction of the state’s workforce but wield great political power.
The most obvious example is the protracted strikes of actors and writers in Southern California’s iconic...
What do you think of the Occupy Wall Street movement?
• What's the point? I support passionate people and movements even when I don't agree with what they stand for, however the Occupy Movement has no focus and does not educate us!
Editorial: Supreme Court Keeps City Officials from Hiding Records
The California Supreme Court last week put a sock in the argument that it’s OK for elected officials and government employees to keep citizens out of the loop by using private email and texting accounts to conduct the public’s business.
