Opinion
Jamboree doesn’t just build housing. Our resident services team ensures that every resident at each of our properties has the tools they need to thrive. At Larkin Place, each resident will have access to trained staff that provide support and resources. This includes case management, individual or group therapy, peer support groups, recovery services, benefits counseling, life skills training, and community-building activities.
“To treat the evil of racial prejudice takes individual courage and resolve. But how can we treat its root societal causes and not just its symptoms? To heal this scourge of the human spirit requires individual and collective learning. We must make conscious, consistent efforts to seek truth and to vigorously practice justice.”
A year ago I wrote about my upcoming nuptials in a column called “Love and marriage: not just for kids anymore.” On the recent occasion of our first anniversary, I revisited that unabashedly lovestruck shout out to later-life romantics, and realized I was naïve: my first year married to Lisa has been much, much more joyous and surprising than I anticipated.
“I hate high school.” We were driving into the parking lot of Claremont High School. What I really meant was that I hate the speed bumps in the high school’s parking lot, remembering the quote I once read in a senior wills — senior wills! How high school! — edition of the Wolfpacket: “College is high school without the speed bumps.”
I thought when I turned 65 my healthcare options would be more plentiful, with insurance rates costing far less. Now I was going on Medicare and only had supplemental coverage to worry about. Based on my parents’ experiences, I wouldn’t have to worry about coverage. I mean, everyone takes Medicare, right? So I was ready to make the jump. Unfortunately, reality hit pretty quickly.
She assured me Cindy was fine, and that she had called to ask me if she wanted to say yes to the lady at the agency who just called her wondering if we wanted a baby that had been born 10 days before. We were the second family she had called. The first had quickly declined when they found out she had a skin condition. Then I started crying. Of course. Of course we wanted that baby.
In both his letters, Mr. Ring repeats his standing army theme, but he employs backwards logic. He describes how our Constitution provides for no standing army, but rather a militia. Yet now that we have a standing army — and supposedly no militia — he wishes to declare the Second Amendment (herein after 2A) “null and void.” So, if I understand Mr. Ring’s rationale, because we have violated the Constitution once by creating a standing army, we should violate it a second time by nullifying our 2A.
My wife Tracy and I didn’t know it yet, but on May 26, 2015 a little baby was struggling to be born.
It’s ludicrous to suggest the Courier could be looked upon as a contemporary of the Sacramento Bee or San Francisco Chronicle; we’re apples and oranges. But for this year — just like we were in 2020 and 2021 — we are at the table. And that’s not nothing.
Residents of our Pilgrim Place residential community recently brought a hate incident to the attention of our diversity, equity, inclusion, and recruitment advisory group. This group is composed of Pilgrim Place residents and staff to advise staff and administration on the issues of diversity and inclusion.
Douglas Lyons and I disagree [“SCOTUS misses the point of the Second Amendment,” May 5, and “The Second Amendment is clear, obvious, and directly stated,” May 12] about what the Second Amendment means because we disagree about the function of its first clause: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, …” I call those words a “preamble” because they are crucial to understanding the Second while Lyons thinks they are minor “prefatory” verbiage.
Tough decisions are part of any management job. Believe me, I’ve been there. But as a leader of a company, or a city, it’s not an option to throw your hands up and decline to participate because you feel somebody slighted you in some way.
For almost three months now I’ve been doing something every morning I’ve only told a few people about, and they all had the same response, that I’m crazy: showering in super cold water. Not tepid water. Not lukewarm water. Cold, cold water.
Our founders considered the Second Amendment an expression of one of our numerous natural rights which safeguard us from illegitimate government intrusions, meaning this right comes from God, not from man, that it existed prior to the drafting of our Constitution, continues to exist after its drafting, and was included in our Constitution in order to eliminate any doubt or ambiguity.
Gratitude is not just a “feeling,” but is the constant attitude of thankfulness and appreciation of life. Though there is so much to be grateful for, gratitude may not always come naturally to us. Sometimes we need to adjust our outlook on the situation we’re in.
What Scalia (and the Court) does, having noted that there is a preamble in the Second Amendment, is to toss it out as irrelevant to what the Court should hold about the Second. As a result, he takes “the right of the people …” to be the only clause that the Court, in understanding, interpreting, this provision of the Constitution, must pay attention to.