Co-publisher and Editor Becky Clark is recovering well from a small heart attack suffered last month and is expected to return within weeks. Thank you all for your concern.
Jack Clark, Co-Publisher/General Counsel
Out Loud: October 22, 2015
By Jack Clark

Co-publisher and Editor Becky Clark is recovering well from a small heart attack suffered last month and is expected to return within weeks. Thank you all for your concern.
Jack Clark, Co-Publisher/General Counsel
Now that we leave the holiday season behind with all the kind greetings and promises of a new year, I follow through with my promise to readers to address inadequacies among our local government agencies. Those of you new to Idyllwild, or those who neglected in the past to follow the goings on of your…
I often say we work as hard as we can to produce a quality newspaper only to have a printer off the Hill drop the quality as soon as it rolls the machine. We may end up with blotches of ink, poor color and generally bad-quality printing. And now, with the retirement a few weeks…
Editor’s note: I’m giving Jack a turn again this week. “Fake news” is taken to mean one thing at the national level, but something quite different at the local level. When any newspaper values its reputation, it does not report rumor as news. It uses reliable sources and it verifies them. A reliable news source…
I attended last week’s Governmental Affairs Day in Sacramento, speaking out to four elected officials on the propane issues we face on the Hill. The first was at the open mic following Santa Barbara Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson’s address. I spoke up then because she serves on the Natural Resources and Water Committee. She expressed interest,…
More and more, we in the newsroom at the TC have experienced an impediment to covering local students at Idyllwild School: parents or guardians. Last week, one of our freelance photographers went to Open House at the school and took lots of photos. He turned in four photos of the school concert without getting names….
Kudos to Jerry Buchanan, Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission president, for speaking up at last week’s IFPD meeting to say that the board intends to follow the Brown Act to the letter and spirit of the law. That’s a huge first step toward open government for this agency. If only two finance committee members would…