“TIME IS THE LEAST OF WHAT WE HAVE,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in a particularly lucid moment. It is the ephemeral quality of our dance through time that makes life precious. For our own well-being, we must embrace the essence of the moment — yet it is still hard to see the old lions pass. David left […]
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Grant Cooke: A wander by Trafalgar Square
THE HIP YOUNG INVESTMENT BANKERS HAVE LEFT FLEET STREET for the shiny glass and steel offices on the Queen’s Walk along the River Thames. But while it’s no longer the epicenter of London — and in turn, of the world’s financial markets — Fleet Street is still quintessential London, a cacophonous jumble of autos, taxis, buses […]
Grant Cooke: Mists of the Maumturks, and a glimpse of the Irish soul
I TURNED MY COLLAR UP AGAINST THE WIND and shifted my weight slightly to ease my back. The cold cut all the way to the bone. Peter, encased in a heavy green jacket, skulled the boat, his gnarled and callused hands moving the oars lightly in the dark water, keeping the lines true and allowing […]
Grant Cooke: My New Year wishes
THANKFULLY, THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS OVER, AND THE RIGHT GUY WON. I don’t say that lightly. President Obama’s re-election was one of the most important presidential decisions the American people have made since Franklin Delano Roosevelt — and for many of the same reasons. Both presidents understood one of the most basic of political […]
Grant Cooke: Rule by old white guys is over
A LITTLE MORE THAN THREE WEEKS AFTER THE ELECTION, there is at least one lesson we can take away for certain: Old rich white guys no longer rule America. Here, let me be clear. President Barack Obama’s election to a second term took a crowbar and smashed the grip of the power-clasping hands of a […]
Grant Cooke: Mitt the oil man
ON AUG. 21, TEXAS OIL INDUSTRY CEOs gave Mitt Romney $7 million at a fundraiser. Two days later, the Republican presidential nominee announced the most pro-oil, anti-environment energy policy statement in history. What a sham, and what a shame. The Aug. 23 release of Romney’s energy plan touting the formation of three million jobs wasn’t […]
Grant Cooke: Will the ACA reignite the California Renaissance?
ON JUNE 28, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT DID A GREAT THING FOR AMERICA. The court’s landmark ruling approving the Affordable Care Act cleared the way for a solution to one of the nation’s most shameful social failures. This modest national health care plan finally allows America, richest of the developed nations, to stand alongside poorer […]
CAC, FIT serve up home-cooked compassion
By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter Faced with an economy that is threatening the grants and donations needed by the Community Action Council, Families in Transition and the Benicia Human Services Board, some of the agencies’ leaders decided to get cooking. Literally: To raise funds, they’re offering dinners for sale. Viola Robertson, CAC executive director, […]
Benicia; Bay Area celebrate the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(This article was originally published in the Jan. 22 print edition of the Herald) Galen Kusic, Editor Over the past week, the Bay Area, nation and world remembered the life and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with marches, tributes, sermons and celebrations. On Mon. in Benicia at the Community Congregational Church, United […]
Benicia Community Action Council: A one stop shop to help those in need
Galen Kusic, Editor The Benicia Community Action Council continues to positively impact lives by helping those in need. “You know we’re busy,” said Executive Director Viola Robertson, who has run the non-profit since 1980. “It’s like a one-stop shop.” The CAC features a beautiful commercial kitchen downstairs, where fresh meals are cooked five times a […]