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...
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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...
Cartoon: Scott Chambers
This week's Coast News cartoon....
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...
Cartoon: Scott Chambers
This week's Coast News cartoon....
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...
Cartoon: Scott Chambers
This week's Coast News cartoon....
Letters: Oceanside needs Measure S
I have spent my career answering calls in Oceanside, and I want to respond to the recent coverage of Measure S. A story by inewsource,...
Opinion: More housing, fewer homeowners
The “Affordable housing at what cost” article by Felicia Gamez-Weinbaum in The Coast News’ Aug. 21 print edition is well written and explains some of the...
Op-ed: Stop the Golden Pacific Powerlink before it’s too late
I do not support the Golden Pacific Powerlink, and I will do everything in my power to stop it. Earlier this year, the state announced...