What Have We Done For Los Encinos?
By Kathy Moghimi-Patterson It is a warm Sunday afternoon. I do not see anyone around, except the singing birds in the sky and the swimming ducks on the lake. The…
From The Sidelines 12-5-11
By Irving Leemon, Professionally Opinionated Contributing Columnist I’ve noticed the apparent increase over the last several years in the number of people who join a large crowd with a ‘purpose’.…
From the Sidelines 11-28-11
By Irving Leemon With 15% of the population living on $10,000 a year or less, we have a real problem. We are already experiencing an increase in violence and crime.…
From the Sidelines 11-21-11
— By Irving Leemon Everything I see and hear points to the “protest encampments” across our nation, seems to be floundering. They appear to not have a clear message or…
From The Sidelines 11-14-11
By Irving Leemon, Contributing Columnist Congratulations Ohio. You’ve successfully defeated extremists from taking over your state. These people and others want to take away your right to make your own…
From The Sidelines 11-8-11
By Irving Leemon Let me get one thing straight, I’m not against greed in and of itself. We all want bigger and better things then we have now. I’m against…
From The Sidelines 10-31-11
By Irving Leemon The City’s governing body and mayor talk about making the City more business friendly. The problem is they keep raising the sewer treatment and other fees on…
Show Your Support For Occupy Wall Street
We, the undersigned, wish to express our deepest admiration to all of you who have initiated the non-violent Occupy Wall Street Movement and to those around the country who have…
Creating Thousands of Green Jobs on Impaired Farmland
By Kim Delfino, Daniel Kim, Carl Zichella, and Jay Ziegler Successful solar-energy development requires plenty of sunshine, but it also requires land— sometimes, lots of land. Developing utility-scale solar projects…
American Workers Deserve Respect
By Roger Smith “The middle class would not exist without organized labor.” So proclaimed Vice President Joe Biden at a recent speech in Ohio. He’s right. And with unemployment stuck…