Dear Editor The city of Oxnard invests excess cash in various instruments. Included in these investments are the excess reserve cash held by a select few of the Landscape Maintenance Districts (LMDs). Via city-supplied responses to multiple Public Record Act (PRA) inquiries, a history of investment and interest earned data has been collated into a spreadsheet. This history includes January 202...
May 10, 2024
Oxnard--It’s always amazing to me how you can roll through life, and before you know it, disaster strikes, and everything goes sideways. IN other words, it’s a typical Monday, which starts with delivering the paper, stopping at my mail annex to check my box, and then it’s time to write. That’s when things went sideways. I’d started typing, and to capitalize a word, you know, hit the shift k...
Chris Frost · May 3, 2024
Oxnard--It’s become evident to me recently that I’m the most boring and routine guy in Ventura County, and I’m a big enough boy to admit this. have a simple routine that starts every morning at 4:30 a.m.: I test my blood sugar to see where I am and determine how much insulin I need, and then I portion out my blood pressure medication and complete the medication portion of my day. From ther...
Chris Frost · Apr 26, 2024
Oxnard--I’ve been home for about a month now, and I’m starting to notice a few things now that I have the time to look around and make a few observations. FOR starters, I am getting a record number of phone calls from spam numbers trying to sell me things. Most times, I let them go and block them, but there are a few that I’ve answered and asked for the company’s name that gave them my phone...
Chris Frost · Apr 19, 2024
Oxnard--I hit another good and lousy anniversary this week, as I passed my 35th anniversary of being diagnosed as a Type 1 Diabetic on April 8. WHEN I was diagnosed, the doctor told me I’d live for about 25 years, so I guess I’m beating the odds. Like any typical Type 1 Diabetic, I spend my days balancing food, exercise, and taking insulin, with the hope that my blood sugar does not go too...
Chris Frost · Apr 12, 2024
Oxnard—I’ve been here a while now, and I have to assimilate myself to Southern California again. To explain, I was drawing up my weekend and couldn’t help but notice the forecast, which called for rain, followed by announcements about sandbags. NOW, until recently, that would mean batten down the hatches and get ready to ride the storm out. I redrew my day and attended the Chumash Elder Juli...
Chris Frost · Apr 5, 2024
Oxnard--I have been back for a little over a week, and now that I’m feeling as human as I get, it’s time to reflect a little bit. FOR starters, I have to say that I appreciate the movers who packed my truck for doing me such a great favor by taking apart the cheap kitchen table I bought a few years back. While in transport, it truly helped me when they bent the frame, making it next to impo...
Chris Frost · Mar 29, 2024
Oxnard--I’m back where I belong, although it might be a couple of weeks before everything in my life is settled and I’m back to business as usual. OF course, that’s going to take some time. Our arrival day at our new home, Wednesday, March 13, happened the same day I produced the March 15 paper. That meant the J-Train had the guys telling them where to place the boxes since I’m not generally...
Chris Frost · Mar 22, 2024
Oxnard—I think it’s safe to say that I am too old to take on such an ambitious move, and you can bet that nothing is more rewarding than my map stating that I’ve reached my destination. LET me back up a bit, well, about a year, and say that goal one for this trip was to not make as many mistakes as last year. The big mistake in 2023 was telling the J-Train to get all our stuff ready. She di...
Chris Frost · Mar 15, 2024
Oxnard--It’s not the first time, but hopefully, it will be the last time. But to quote Willie Nelson, “I’m on the road again. Like a band of gypsies, we go down the highway.” MOVING with the J-Train presents a series of challenges, to say the least, which I don’t share. For example, my clothes are in 4 boxes; in contrast, her books take more boxes than everything I own. Her belongings are an...
Chris Frost · Mar 8, 2024
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