The U.S. Navy announced the removal of the commander of an aircraft carrier last week.  The report would hardly have been newsworthy but for the circumstances that led to the Navy’s action.             Naval officer Owen Honors (his real name), was a captain (the naval equivalent of a full colonel).  His vessel, the U.S.S. […]

            Selecting the top performances of the year in and around Sacramento has always been a most difficult task, made even more so by our attempt to rank them from one to ten.  For the year just passed, we count a full two dozen noteworthy performances and productions, all of which could easily be included […]

            It will probably always be known as “twenty-ten,” the first of the two thousands to be so identified (since the aughts really aren’t so easily simplified).  And so, it will be unique in at least that respect, the first year to be “vernacularized” in our new millennium.             But other than that far from […]

            In 2010, the Tea Party, that seemingly incoherent, non-descript movement that many scoffed at when it first appeared on the national scene a year earlier, achieved a form of legitimacy not realized by many of its predecessors.  In electing members and sympathizers to the House of Representatives, the Senate, and to many state legislatures, […]