For over 60 years, Emmett Harden has been eating 15 Bean Soup. Ask him how the soup gets its name and he says, “It can be 15, 12, eight, or three beans, it doesn’t matter, it’s all the same. Nowadays, it comes in a package with 15 different beans in it, but back in my […]
Cry for the children
Lessons from strong mayor’s failure
Why I’m voting No on Strong Mayor
Bus service goes nowhere in Glen Elder
Three bullets, and a new reason to live

Christopher “Coon the Poet” Coon has three bullet holes to remind him of his greater purpose in life. The Valley Hi native is 25 now, but he almost didn’t survive his teen years. While walking home from school on March 1, 2006, Coon was shot multiple times by a schoolmate. A familiar adolescent dispute – […]