Yesterday’s earthquake got me nostalgic for the days when anything that went awry we could blame Bill Strom. Fortunately, Penny Rich seems a capable substitute. I’d like to move beyond the shenanigans of Rich, but darned if she doesn’t keep serving them up to me like prosciutto and melon on a doily-lined platter. After her […]

You know that music in some movies that, no matter how pleasant the scene, you get an anxious feeling the pit of your stomach? Like in Jaws, vacationers may be frolicking in the gentle waves on a sunny day, but when you hear that music, you know: No good can come of this. I heard […]

Penurious by necessity, I have never had a latte. Yet soon I may be dunned the equivalent of two lattes a week. First the library expansion and the proposed quarter-cent county tax hike on the November ballot to go toward education and business development, and now an additional half-cent tax increase waiting in the wings […]

Taxes never go down. Think about that before you mark your ballot on the proposed sales tax increase. Why in the world would anyone give the Orange County commissioners more money? The board has demonstrated that it cannot manage the county’s tax dollars. The proposed quarter-cent tax increase is good example. The increase that county […]