By: Lisa Coleman Twice in the last three weeks, a drunk driver killed innocent people on Arizona roads. The first, a 25-year old police officer, the second a 16-year old high school student. Both of the drunk drivers were in this country illegally from Mexico. Both of these men had blood alcohol levels more than [...]

David Simmonds It’s sometimes hard to find true heroes in our wrongly described Earth Is Flat world that we have sadly become. We all too often praise the likes of Gates, Pickens, Slim, spoiled athletes and that dude who runs Dubai with all that rancid oil money, while real people of character and integrity toil [...]

David Simmonds I wake up every day now hoping to find some good news for my wallet. Where I live in SoCal housing values have tanked, including mine. Everyone I know is worth about half as much as they were two years ago. Well, maybe worth isn’t the best word to use…they are still fine, [...]

David Simmonds Mexico has a serious problem going on, folks. And although it hasn’t affected their dynamic tourist industry (except for a few border areas), the drug cartel wars are escalating rapidly. These guys don’t fool around. Tijuana has had 50 drug war homicides in the past week with two of the victims having been [...]

David Simmonds I first stumbled into Sayulita, then a very small village tucked into a beautiful cove in Nayarit, in 1970, having navigated (it was a tough trip in those days) my old VW bus down from San Diego one summer break from college. And although my destination was Puerto Vallarta, which was just getting to be [...]

David Simmonds It has been a good month for Mexico’s sports enthusiasts. The year got off to a bad start, after the unexpected failure of the national soccer team, El Tri, to qualify for the Olympic games in March. Soccer, or fútbol, is the national sport by a wide margin. I recall attending a huge [...]

David Simmonds When clueless people ask me what I do, which I hate, I often respond, “I’m a shortstop”, ignoring the glaring fact that I haven’t played baseball competitively since I was 20, nearly 40 years ago. But the way I figure it that’s what I have loved the most and what I was best at, so that’s how I see myself, as a [...]