Shooting at transit center raises questions
When the district attorney declined to bring charges last February in the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Oceanside man by a security guard during a...
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Something feels a little familiar …
These headlines lately about how Wall Street movers and shakers are throwing lavish parties for the holiday season, one featuring a performance by the hip-hop...
What was behind the Escondido bomb house?
Was it a dispute over severance pay that led a man to turn his rented Escondido house into a manufacturing plant where accidents happen? Did...
Science gives us reason to look past ourselves
Just as the lame ducks in Congress threatened to wash away our holiday-season cheer with their bickering, along came news suggesting that E.T. could be...
North County sends big power to Washington
One of our own, Darrell Issa, is now entering center stage in Washington, D.C. Issa is soon to be armed with subpoena power to carry...
You call that news?
I’m guessing we all feel better now that Pat Sajak has apologized for once having boosted the then-fledgling career of Keith Olbermann. Maybe it’s just...
In this season of indulgence many don’t have enough
A guy I know got fired not long ago after nearly six months on the job and nary a whimper of a complaint about his...
Fueling research at great universities
The rain had scrubbed the skies the other day and I was taking another good gulp of fresh air, looking forward to continuing this practice...
Runs like well-oiled campaign machinery
When the New York Times reported on Oct. 21 that investment bankers and oil companies with near anonymity have been pouring large amounts of hard-to-trace...
Pay isn’t the problem; transparency is
Ever since those pictures in the news a few weeks ago of the former city manager of Bell, Calif., being escorted by police from his...
Blazing trousers
Am I the only one feeling assaulted by the attack ads candidates are spending such obscene amounts of money putting on the air lately? And...
Weeding the fiscal garden
I’ve read the entire text of Proposition 19, the Nov. 2 ballot item that would legalize marijuana in California for those at least 21 years...
Vista councilman’s time has come and gone
If you’re being fried on a hot skillet, wouldn’t you want to jump out of the pan? Not if you’re Frank Lopez, the city councilman...
Wind sprinting to academic excellence
Last I could gather, far from all school administrators in our state had been persuaded that physical education was all that important to the curriculum....
Disgraced leader’s plight reflects on us
Just when we thought we were safe from ever having to think about him again, Randall C. “Duke” Cunningham has resurfaced. Halfway through his 100-month...