Author: John Spevak

Technology is both a blessing and a curse. I was cursed the other day when I was at my desktop computer and the screen started flashing and an annoying voice kept screaming that my computer had been attacked by a trojan virus....

Forty years ago this month, I wrote my first newspaper column. I was working as a summer reporter for a Los Banos newspaper when my editor suggested I write a column. I agreed. I forget now what the topic of that column was, but...

The Westside Express is fortunate to have talented and dedicated writers contributing to this newspaper. Most of them do it strictly for the love of writing about things important to them and because they believe in the...

In my column last week, I talked about the frustrations of going to a Giants game. I also mentioned my irritation with three members of the Giants ballpark staff who gave my wife Sandy and me the wrong information, causing two...