By Elizabeth Patterson Benicia Mayor (Editor’s Note: A portion of this article ran in Sunday’s Year in Review section. It is being reprinted here in its entirety.) Mutual understanding and consensus on the most pressing issues facing Benicia will allow the city to focus its limited resources and the city council to make the necessary […]
Dennis Lund: Predictions? We don’t need no stinkin’ predictions
With apology offered to B. Traven for the above appropriation of his words, I wanted to take a moment, as we approach 2018, to look back on tumultuous 2017 or more specifically, some of the comments made foretelling of coming events. It takes a certain person: cocky, self-assured and thick skinned to make such predictions. […]
Dennis Lund: Twelve words and phrases to lose in 2017
During a performance at Yoshi’s in Oakland, legendary Texas wordsmith, the late Guy Clark, asked the question: Is there a synonym for ‘Thesaurus’? He added that he never found one, but the word ‘lexicon’ was about as close as he could find. The lexicon, the words and phrases used on a daily basis, evolves, as […]