Out loud: Living on the fringe …

“People are my bag,” summed up a Desert Sun School counsellor’s lifestyle in a 1972 Town Crier. He is shown sporting longish hair and...

Out Loud: Sacramento

I took my grandson Carter with me to Sacramento last week for the annual California News Publishers Association’s Government Affairs Day. While he stayed in...

Out loud: Building the Idyllwild Community Center …

Tuesday night, we not only inched, but leapt a vital step toward building the Idyllwild Community Center because of Supervisor Chuck Washington. This is much...

Out Loud: Social media, fake news and your local newspaper

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...

Out Loud: Morning routines …

I don’t drink coffee. I love the aroma but not the taste, heat and jitters it produces. So it takes me a bit more...

Out loud: We’re still here …

1:45 p.m. Monday, July 15, a Mountain Center fire report to San Bernardino National Forest dispatch came over the scanner. I remember the description...

Out Loud: A few kudos …

We produced a paper this week without either an interim operations manager or our incredible Halie, who is on maternity leave, as many of...

Out Loud: November 8, 2018

A rough year hit the mountain and two months remain. The Cranston Fire destroyed homes and property, but no lives were lost because of it,...

Out Loud: Thanksgiving …

Thanksgiving is our family’s favorite holiday (at least for the adults; the kids prefer Christmas, of course.) The Side Dishes Squadron (ladies) chop, stir, bake...

Out Loud: October 12, 2017

I want to comment after this column’s silence for many weeks now, about the responses we’ve received from you, our readers, as we continue...
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