Is Randy the same Randy Alcorn who writes for The Daily Sound?

No, it is a different Randy Alcorn. Randy writes, "Periodically someone runs across something written by 'Randy Alcorn' and assumes that could only be me. But there are other Randy Alcorns, and one of them is a columnist for The Daily Sound in Santa Barbara, California. I've read a few of his articles I agree with and others I definitely don't."