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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Guest Opinion: Do You Know Where Your Ancestors Are?

By Mark Loper I’ve been claiming for years that I’m descended from royalty, and for years my claims have elicited raucous laughter. So I decided…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Guest Opinion: Saving Yourself in the Wilds of South Orange County – Part 1

By Mark Loper We’ve all heard about that Montana family, eating at their picnic table, and being visited by a hungry grizzly bear. Needless to…

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LIVING, SJC Living

On Life and Love After 50: Tom Blake’s Column on Relationships Turns 24 Years Old

  Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake Twenty-four years ago, on July 7, 1994, my first newspaper column was published….

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LIVING, SJC Living

Branching Out: Pacific Animal Productions, Harry Potter Day Coming to the Library in July

Guest Opinion: Branching Out by San Juan Capistrano Library Staff and the Friends of the Library Check out these special programs for kids that are…

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LIVING, SJC Living

Moments in Time: Learn About the Acjachemen Nation in Summer Lecture Series

Guest Opinion: Moments in Time by Jan Siegel Having just celebrated the founding of the United States of America on July 4th, we realize that…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Guest Opinion: The Selling of San Juan Capistrano’s Heart and Soul

By Mark Nielsen Our city appears to be heading down a path of abandoning our decades-long commitment to preserving San Juan’s unique rural, equestrian and…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Wavelengths: Nuking it Out: In a Fight against Storing Radioactive Waste, We Are in the Dark

By Jim Kempton Out of an inescapable curiosity, I attended a forum about the current state of the waste storage for the radioactive fuel rods…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Wavelengths: The Freedom of the Press is our Cardinal Liberty

By Jim Kempton “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Bartlett Bulletin: Orange County Opposes AB 1250

By Lisa Bartlett, Orange County Supervisor 5th District I am proud of the sound financial footing the county is on today. On July 1, the…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Guest Opinion: Historical Photographs are Key to Developer Dispute

Images raise questions regarding historic view from Egan House’s dormer window By Jan Siegel The Judge Egan House—a historic landmark that sits along Camino Capistrano…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Guest Opinion: California WaterFix Critical to South County

By Megan Yoo Schneider The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is 435 miles from South Orange County, but the impact of what happens there is felt as…

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LIVING, SJC Living

On Life and Love After 50: Reunited High School Classmates Defy Conventional Wisdom on Senior Dating

By Tom Blake As a columnist writing about love and relationships for 23 years, I’ve strongly advocated that single seniors know each other well before…

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LIVING, SJC Living

On Life and Love After 50: Delivering a Letter to Johnny Cash

By Tom Blake On Wednesday night, Feb. 22, while packing suitcases for a weeklong trip to Nashville and Memphis, my partner, Greta, and I found…

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Letters to the Community, SOAPBOX

Letter: Technology Creates an Uncertain Future

Eugene Hallinan, San Clemente Normally I’m nonplussed with the content of Jim Kempton, a guest opinion writer for The Capistrano Dispatch. (Sorry, dude.) However, his…

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LIVING, SJC Living

On Life and Love After 50: Romance in Nepal

A country filled with beauty, Nepal is well worth a visit for travelers By Tom Blake When I was a kid, I was fascinated to…

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