November 4, 2025
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Remembering Local 9/11 Victims:

While Washington D.C., New York, and Shanksville, Pa. have been ground zero for public demonstrations in response the capture and death of Osama bin Laden, truth is that the long tentacles of tragedy reach directly […]

Vermont.

Hometown Hero: Janet Salomonson M.D.:

Santa Monica plastic surgeon Janet Salomonson will be in Guatemala this coming summer performing operations to correct the birth anomaly of cleft palate. “We never turn away any child who is healthy enough to go […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Styming Half A Very Good Idea:

The best two things that could happen in American politics would be cutting or removing altogether the corporate and labor union campaign contributions that are the most significant sources of corruption in both national and […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Dylan in China: Not An Opera:

Operas are usually dramatic, to say the least.  There are songs of emotional torment, followed by florid suicide scenes, followed by songs of emotional torment over florid suicides.   In 1987 composer John Adams and librettist […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

What Do We Want Pro Sports to Do?:

One way to start a dialogue on the ironically delicate subject of what it is we want from professional sports might be to ask ourselves why we still have professional boxing. We sent Michael Vick […]

Vermont.

Bergamot Transit Village and Hines:

How did it all go so wrong is the question being asked regarding the development proposed by Hines 26th Street, LLC (Hines) for a 960,000 square feet project located on the north side of Olympic […]