By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
By routine, I usually write my weekly column on Sunday afternoon for Monday deadline. My column always starts in my head long before I reach a keyboard to transcribe the thoughts and words for publication. In that fashion, this column began as the year of the Green Tomato.
But that column went in [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
I am old enough to have thought while growing up that Buck Rogers was just a science fiction character, but I have since come to the conclusion that Phillip Francis Nowlan, who first introduced Rogers in 1928 was merely a prophet.
I thought I had seen it all when my TV screen [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
In case you haven’t noticed, with all the news about oil spills, gasoline prices have gone through the roof once again. I may be a skeptic, but I don’t believe an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – as bad as that is – or a leaky pipe in Michigan spilling [...]
By BILL DUNCAN
The Elderstatesman
Having worked in the newspaper business for 20 years in Long Beach, Calif., I am familiar with traffic circles because I had to make the rounds many times at the intersection of Lakewood Boulevard (State Route 19) and Pacific Coast Highway (then known as U.S Highway 101 Alternate.) Those days, the [...]
