Voters Favor State Health Insurance Bill
California voters like Governor Schwarzenegger’s new health care overhaul bill by a 3-to-1 margin…
Day: January 10, 2008
Bottoms Up!
Los Olivos Cafe will host two weekly classes beginning January 15 and 16 that are guaranteed to please your palate and warm you up on those cold winter nights.
Edwards Pleads Guilty to Murder
Gregory Edwards pled guilty to first-degree murder charges.
Terris Reelected to County Retirement Board
Shawn Terris was re-elected to the County Retirement Board.
Listmania Continued
LOOKING BACKWARD, LEANING FORWARD: A new year has landed, which means that the culture addicts among us are busy reeling in 2007, trying to make sense of what happened in the past 12 months.
The Savages
Caring for an elderly parent with dementia reveals a lot about a family, and not all of it is nice. Wendy (Laura Linney) and Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) Savage have not received much love or support from their parents, and as the story begins, they face their forties with diminishing expectations.
What Comes Around Goes Around
FESS HOSTEL HUSTLING: Fess Parker did a little Texas-style horse trading some years ago to get a new hotel okayed and now he wants to switch horseflesh. But all the horses in Texas are more likely to run off to Mexico before he’ll be allowed to renege on his promise to build a 100-room hostel on lower State Street.
Living with Uncertainty
It is the first of the new year, and I, like many of my optimistic fellow Americans, have a need to arm myself with resolutions; it helps us meet the uncertainty of the new year if we feel resolved to do something to improve our lots in life. Certainty is certainly reassuring. And in these uncertain times, dogma and confident, resolute leaders can be very attractive.
Quiz: Celebrated Singletons
1) The comic strip Cathy features a longtime single woman (though now married) who struggles through the “four basic guilt groups” of life: food, love, work, and what?
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Professor Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Professor Muhammad Yunuspictured center, with members of the Grameen Bank board, at the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Norway in December 2006.
