blight

Welcome to Mountain View: Look at some blight. Enter this Bay Area city, home to Google and dining hotspot Castro Street, via El Camino Real from the south and the first thing you see is a shuttered muffler shop with boarded up and papered…

LAKEWOOD — A pair of filthy mattresses strewn near a stack of tires. A car, stripped of its mechanics, up on blocks. A grimy yet heartfelt Father’s Day card jammed into the chain link of a security fence, surrounded by shards of glass. This…

People come and stay at this time of year. Houseguests we’ll call them, though mine are better described as lazy bastards who’ve mistaken me for a valet. They all enjoy napping. Over the holiday season the nap becomes a rite and a right.…