Bob Cuddy

I hesitate to get in the way of the hyperventilating mob storming the castle, drooling to capture and destroy the Paso Robles police chief. If I’m not careful, I might catch a pitchfork, or get set on fire by one of the torches.

Spot quiz: What do South County home-school parents, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the American Civil Liberties Union, accused terrorists at Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court have in common?

It’s not often that you hear George Washington and his pre-Revolutionary War days in Virginia’s House of Burgesses dropped into a 21st-century government discussion about garbage.

I moseyed down to the county courthouse the other day to check on the local version of the national Occupy Wall Street movement. I wanted to get a sense of where they are these days and where they intend to go.

When Vic Montalban looks at the beach at the end of Pier Avenue in Oceano and Grand Avenue in Grover Beach, and its environs, he experiences double vision.

In hindsight, maybe I was a bit rough on the guy. After all, he was just trying to make a few bucks. He’d probably lost his job and was doing what he had to do to put food on the table.

Columnist muses on his experience in the Peace Corps decades ago and the future of the organization.

The Grover Beach Police Department is going to grab $133,000 in Homeland Security money to use for electronic license plate readers. Are you feeling safer?

A few decades back, I figured I’d retire at 65, like my father.

Like tens of thousands across the nation, a few hundred people from around the county got together Sunday at a local church to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001. But these folks had more on their minds than the past.