A Doug's Life: Ghost town, tumbleweeds, and City Hall

Commentary by Doug Spoon, Editor The Krikorian theater building is on death row, but the retail corner lot has been given a reprieve. In...

A Doug's Life: Here's a fix for the Menifee Bowl dilemma

Commentary by Doug Spoon, Editor It was inevitable that, with the fast growth of Liberty High’s football program, someone would kick off M...

A Doug's Life: Hey naysayers, let's stay prepared anyway

Commentary by Menifee 24/7 Editor Doug Spoon “Boy, we really dodged a bullet on that one.” I see and hear your sarcastic comments all ac...

A Doug's Life: Finding heroes, skeletons in the closet

Commentary by Doug Spoon, Editor While we scurry about town in our daily lives, we are occasionally reminded of the history that preceded ...

A Doug's Life: The ups and downs of communication

Commentary by Menifee 24/7 Editor Doug Spoon Communication. It’s a word that takes so many forms and can bring about such different resu...

A Doug's Life: School busing must be brought back

Menifee 24/7 Editor Doug Spoon's commentary on all things Menifee: Nobody asked me, but… Parents who were upset when Menifee Union S...

A Doug's Life: Random thoughts about the big city

By Doug Spoon, Editor Menifee meanderings… What does it take to activate a traffic signal at an intersection that badly needs it? More t...

A Doug's Life: Even in Padres land, he's loyal to Dodger blue

By Doug Spoon, Editor It wasn’t until my neighbor saw me wearing a Dodgers jersey and shouted “Go Padres!” that I wondered if I could actu...

Does anybody really want to read the news anymore?

I was going to make the opening line of this column something like, “Funny how news travels these days.” Then I thought about it for a bit...

Reasons to Turn a Negative Into Many Positives

Once again, a dark cloud descends over our country today with the news of another fatal shooting of police officers -- this time in Baton Ro...

It All Comes Down to Respect -- and it Must Start Here

For a guy who makes his living in, around and all over the Internet, I do not always enjoy what I read there -- or what I feel compelled to ...

A Tale of Three Ladies and Old Man River

Maybe I was doomed from the beginning. The weekend of June 24-26 was supposed to be fairly routine. Actually, it was supposed to be a bit...

A Doug's Life: You, too, Can Find Some Hidden Treasures

You could call it a treasure hunt. That is, if you consider a 236-year-old certificate in German script a treasure. I do. That's the...

A Doug's Life: Keeping One's Wits in a Digital World

When I started in this business, I had one deadline per day -- about the time the rest of you were turning in for the night. In the late 1...

A Doug's Life: Sunshine Over the Rural Concrete Jungle

Human nature. It's a funny thing, isn't it? One's opinions, attitudes and interaction with others is dependent on so many di...

Why is Doug Writing About Dogs? Find Out Today

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A Doug's Life: A New Year's Resolution Scorecard

The email was quite innocent, really, on a totally different subject. But then the writer jolted me back to reality with a couple questions ...

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