I am glad to spend time at my mother’s. There’s a pool to swim in when it’s warm and lots of room to bring friends. Mostly, it’s Mom and me as she slows. Or maybe slows is the wrong word. As she leaves.

Portland's current judicial system/activist class could not have rolled out any more of a red carpet to the man who murdered Rachael Abraham, a mother of six, three of whom were in the next (or the same) room as their mother as stabbed and strangled to death. Which begs the question: What are you willing to give up on the road to criminal justice reform?

The slippery slope of political fabulism, from the "Jew-ish" freshman representative to the president of the United States.

Everything modern Portland did led up to the horrific, predictable murder of Rachael Abraham

Nancy Rommelmann reads her recent story on the brutal slaying of Rachael Abraham, a mother of six in Portland, Oregon, and how everything modern Portland did led to her horrific and predicted murder

In the mid-'70s, people disengaged from political conflict and took up jogging. Maybe it's time to do the same.

Ululating Armenian widows in West Hollywood, Scientologists selling Amway in Atwater Village, gun-play in Silver Lake and swimming polls filled with Evian water in Beverly Park. "Meet the Neighbors," an excerpt from FORTY BUCKS AND A DREAM, STORIES OF LOS ANGELES, by Nancy Rommelmann

But…does that make any sense?

Why are Portland journalists, in fall 2022, writing about two van abductions in summer 2020? Is it an editorial effort to distract from the problems of now, including historic levels of violent crime? A late entry into the “activists are blameless” category? A response to what seems like an evasive if not cynical article in The Verge.

South Korean government brings country's greatest cultural export to heel.