
The bodies left behind
A 911 call comes in from a remote cabin on Lake Mondac. Deputy Brynn Mackenzie is closest, so she fields the call. The cabins on Lake Mondac are vacation homes for rich people from the city, so the call can mean anything, especially since it’s a hang up.

During the past year, I was voluble in my support of a new kind of election structure called either “ranked choice voting” or “instant runoff voting.” The idea was to eliminate the expensive and, usually, low turnout runoff election that localities use when a 50 percent plus one electoral majority is required.

The surfer who is documented paddling into the biggest South Bay wave ridden this winter will be honored at the First Annual South Bay Big Wave Challenge awards dinner in April. The Big Wave Challenge is being organized by the South Bay Boardriders Club, which announced the contest this week. Prizes will include $1,000 and a Prime wetsuit from Body Glove. The winner will also be profiled in Easy Reader.

A TSA Thanksgiving
If you were sensitive about your looks in the past as you returned to your folks’ home for Thanksgiving and presented yourself before the groaning board, your imagination will run positively amok this year as you present yourself to the full-body scanner at the airport.