Simone Biles, Michael Phelps and Naomi Osaka have something in common. They each made the decision to bow out of competition to protect their mental health. Phelps took time off from swimming after winning innumerable gold medals at the Olympics.

The employee shortage has been on my mind this week. It’s funny, when the pandemic first hit we worried about businesses shuttering because no one would have the money to buy.

On Monday, we celebrated the extraordinary legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Several of the things that always struck me about his wisdom was that he talked about community, being of service to others, advocated non-violent solutions, and making the world a better place.

Last September, when the legislature approved Senate Bill 9 (allowing 4 to 10 new housing units to be built on one single-family lot statewide) and Senate Bill 10 (which allows 10 to 14 housing units to be built on one parcel), Sacramento politicians handed a blank check to developers by letting

Do you want to do your part to protect the climate but don’t have the funds for an electric vehicle or solar panels? Don’t worry. There are still plenty of actions you can take to protect the climate at little to no cost which also benefit the family budget. Why?

As one adage would have it, “All newspaper opinion writers do is come down from the hills after the battle is over and bayonet the wounded.”

Or as George Bernard Shaw wrote, “A newspaper is a device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.”

A trip to the supermarket is a pretty routine affair for most Island residents. We park our cars, grab a shopping cart, and start picking out what we need. When we get a bit of sticker shock, we either shrug it off or pick out something a bit less expensive.

“The Alameda Sun would like to congratulate Mr. Colburn on his recent retirement and his years of selfless dedication to the safety of our community and thank you for his friendship to our paper and work on this column.

I wasn’t thinking of revenge for my Halloween humiliation, but sometimes opportunity raises her head. Recently, the Old Man took me back to one of my favorite trails, the one on Harbor Bay that winds by our Bay’s waters.