Articles by Colleen OConnor

This is an independent commentary. Have one of your own? Email it to hoa@ivn.us In the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone is tasked with re-imagining the future. Drive-in movies, flu shots. Take out and to go orders. Outdoor weddings and family gatherings. Christmas celebrations might be full of “bubbles,” Zoom calls and FaceTime visits. Ocean Beach continued its Christmas tree in the sand happening, but needed to redo its annual parade of floats, people, pets and cars in a “reverse para...

This is an independent opinion. Want to respond? Write your own commentary! Email hoa@ivn.us. John Steinbeck’s 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and film by the same name, “The Grapes of Wrath,” is considered one of the greatest American films of all time for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Steinbeck’s Dust Bowl and Depression-driven migrants came to the west seeking work but were blocked by California’s National Guardsmen. The Los Angeles Police Department call...