Above all else, hope
Last Friday while deciding on this issue’s Question of the Week, I ran into a bit of difficulty. I wanted to ask our readers how cancer impacted them to coincide with reporter Nick Preciado’s coverage of the Relay for Life fundraiser held last weekend...
Letter: Responding to ‘Home Sweat Home’
A "Self-Help Home" is indeed made with sweat and with the necessary help from an assortment of loans. The best of all made my eyes pop wide. The State of California Department of housing and Community Development contributed up to $60,000 with ZERO percent interest. That makes me the most proud. "Hooray," for government like that!
Water, water everywhere
This week’s reporting by Nick Preciado brought to mind the passage by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, “Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” The winter storms that raged...
Letter: Hospital board like a lifeboat at bay
With sunshine warmth, spring breaks and Easter season upon us we must go to the beach. At the ocean—smooth with few white caps—we see a lifeboat rising and falling in swells with paddlers poking the blue. The people in this lifeboat are not in...
