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            Halloween is here. Ghosts, ghouls, and gluttons abound. Copious amounts of candy will be devoured in the coming days. A tradition with deleterious health effects. Save the children, save yourselves. Carrots, not candy. Let that be your trick-or-treat mantra. And…risk eggs raining down on your home while you rail [...]

            Ballots for the November 8th election have been mailed, and I am fielding inquiries from folks wondering when my annual election column will be published. Be careful what you wish for.             This year we are combining in one column a few statewide matters with local elections and Measures. I skip a local election [...]

                This is a sad story about an accidental drowning in Bora Bora, French Polynesia. JENNIFER ANISTON WEDDING CELEBRATION             Carmel Musgrove traveled to the Four Seasons Resort on a private island on Bora Bora where she was one of fourteen people whom Hollywood [...]

            Is it legal for an employer to make a new employee sign an employment agreement reciting that if the new employee leaves the company he/she may not compete in business? Spoiler alert: no.             Is it legal in a business sale transaction for the [...]

           Labor Day weekend in Truckee/Lake Tahoe is over. Take a deep breath. The Tesla caravan has rolled west, joining the alkaline-shined Burning Man jalopies. A confluence of debutantes and the dusty. A true California congregation, if ever there was one.            The exodus of excess brings [...]

            How would you feel if you owned a five-story apartment complex (like that’s gonna happen) and one of your tenants gets drunk, eats brownies laced with marijuana, goes up on the roof unbeknownst to you, slips and falls to his death…then sues you for maintaining a steep and slippery [...]

            Michael Joseph Jackson. The King of Pop. A legend with a fan base that rivals that of the Holy Trinity in sheer numbers. More famous than the Mona Lisa. A voice recognized worldwide…maybe some liberties are being taken here, but you get the point. Despite his many foibles, Michael [...]

Gift certificates are big business. Some studies show that up to one-half of Christmas gifts come in the form of gift cards or certificates. Given the choice, would you rather have a gift certificate to your favorite store or Aunt Minnie’s imitation diamond-encased tie tack or Uncle Buck’s “one-of-a-kind” fluorescent floor lamp purchased through [...]

           The safety of school children should be paramount. It is not. That much has been made clear time and time again. Entrenched political division has left society’s most cherished, its most vulnerable. It is an unacceptable outcome. A failing neither citizens nor legislators should tolerate. But tragedy continues to strike. [...]