Bret Kofford

Bret Kofford

Life Out Here: Country music, country roads - February 15, 2012 - It’s a crisp winter morning in the Imperial Valley, and I’m driving south to work on La Brucherie Road listening to bluegrass singer Gillian Welch’s “The Harrow and the...

Life Out Here: Texting or the tweet science? - February 8, 2012 - I try to keep up with technology and what the kids are fiddling with, but at my age it’s not easy.

Life Out Here: They're only Yuman - February 1, 2012 - YUMA — Other than for the occasional movie, meal or ballgame, I hadn’t spent much time in Yuma.

Dora DePaoli

Dora DePaoli

Viewpoint: It doesn't get much better for Holtville class of 1952 - February 15, 2012 - It doesn’t get much better than to experience Carrot Festival and a class reunion the same weekend. Our beloved Holtville High School class of 1952 celebrated our 60th reunion Saturday night.

Viewpoint: Cleaning Holtville and making it beautiful - February 8, 2012 - Holtville is a wonderful small town, filled with wonderful people. It would be even more wonderful if there were not so much trash strewn about. Trash is a big problem for most cities. With...

Viewpoint: Remembering the good old days - February 1, 2012 - I recently re-connected with my friend Marianne Taylor from the years we lived in Los Angeles in the 1950s.

Richard Brown

Richard Brown

INKED! Once a tweet hits the streets, there's no going back - February 10, 2012 - Roland Martin’s story is not a unique one in today’s “need-to-know” landscape, that is, “you need to know what I’m up to, whether you want to or not.”

INKED! If pink is the new red, I'll pass - February 3, 2012 - Pink’s not really my color, not when it becomes more apparent that it’s simply a lighter shade of red, the ubiquitous color of the conservative class.

Inked: Dealing the hard stuff, one Girl Scout cookie at a time - January 27, 2012 - The Girl Scouts changes a man. It changes his family, what he’s willing to do, how far he’s willing to sink to the depths of human depravity.