In May, Intelligent.com surveyed 1,268 business leaders to understand what, if any, concerns they have about hiring recent college graduates and whether they have more worries about the most recent generation of graduates.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and foreigners, taking 240 hostages. Putting things in perspective, 34,844 total Palestinian deaths might serve as a future deterrent before someone decides to start another war, but don’t count on it.
Readers: Please do me a favor. Call Eric Lopez, Long Beach public works director at (562) 570-5690 and request that he call the Beachcomber at (562) 597-8000.
One of my favorite lines from comedian Ron White is “You can’t fix stupid” as he puffs on his cigar, drinks what appears to be scotch and rattles off many off-color jokes.
The buzz around Belmont Shore these days has been two murders at 2nd Street businesses occurring within a span of two weeks. For those of us living on the east side of town, we will typically go a year or two before experiencing a single homicide.
The smartest thing that my wife and I did 50 years ago was to buy our house. We were DINKs (double income, no kids) and saved enough for a down payment by living rent free in a nearby 18-unit apartment building that I managed for about three years in the five years after our marriage.
In an old vaudeville routine the straight man says, “Think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?” The top banana replies, “Not if it’s in cans!” A century or so later you’ll still hear farmers repeating that line and slapping their knees in laughter.
Dana Buchanan, owner and CEO of Primal Alchemy Catering, wrote the following commentary ten years ago for publication in the Leadership Long Beach newsletter and it recently appeared on Facebook:
