Letters: A fresh approach for Encinitas
Our family has lived in this community long before it was officially named Encinitas. Unfortunately, we’ve seen our local political discourse become increasingly strident and...
Letters
Op-ed: Stop deciding who doesn’t get a home and build more homes
In San Diego County, a family of four earning just under $140,000 a year qualifies as “low income” for government housing programs. The number is...
Commentary: MAGA mania, don’t be fooled
Name-calling is what you do when you can’t defend your ideas or engage in debate knowledgeably. Full disclosure: The undersigned are Democrats, progressive liberals and...
Opinion: Oceanside taxpayers should reject Measure S
SURPRISE! The city of Oceanside is asking voters to approve another sales tax increase through Measure S on the November ballot. We just voted for...
Opinion: Restoring trust in county contracts with financial oversight
The County of San Diego could be a model for other counties if they undertake the necessary steps to shore up guidelines on awarded contracts...
Opinion: Shame on you, fair board
My name is Mark Rittenbaum, and I’m here to address the fairgrounds board’s decision on Del Mar affordable housing. Before I start my remarks today...
Opinion: Encinitas deserves a council that’s honest about what it is
Marco San Antonio is running this November for the District 4 council seat he currently holds by appointment. He was appointed to the seat in...
Commentary: No such thing as nonpartisan politics
Starting in the seventies, I was a hardcore defender of Encinitas. I was a bastion of anti-development. But I eventually realized there was a political...
Opinion: Golden Pacific Powerlink tests Desmond’s credibility
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is one of the last places in Southern California where the night sky still looks the way it did before any...
Opinion: Think education is expensive? Try ignorance
High-density housing that generates increased traffic and worries emergency responders is impossible to ignore. Meeting state affordable housing mandates while doing the least damage is...
Commentary: We are not powerless
We Americans spend a great deal of time complaining about the influence of money in politics. We complain about corporations, billionaires, unions, developers, tech executives...
Commentary: Remember 1998? Get ready for El Niño
El Niño has been all over the news recently and will likely stay that way for the next few months, with TV weather-guessers blathering about...
Commentary: The hidden toll of chronic productivity
“I have everything I thought success was supposed to give me, but no one knows I’m miserable. I can’t do this anymore… Something is going...
Op-ed: California’s most significant journalism bill nears the finish line
News outlet owners, journalists and coalitions of organizations that have come together to support the nation’s most important journalism legislation to date were still in...
Opinion: The coming battle over turf
Have you noticed those patches of what looks like green carpeting popping up all over the place recently — in city medians and around government...