The Republicans are lining up, opening campaign committees, testing campaign themes and all of that as the fight fully engages for troubled Randy “Duke” Cunningham’s 50th Congressional District seat.
North County folks can get a good overview of the June primary battle by reading William Finn Bennett’s piece, House hopefuls open campaign accounts, in […]
It wasn’t Sen. Morrow and those who wanted to have a forum to express their opposition to illegal immigration that caused the cost. It was the radical leftist, open-border, anarchist protesters that wanted to stop others from exercising their first amendment rights that created the need for the police presence. Why isn’t Mayor Bud Lewis […]
Folks in both Vista and Oceanside, primarily those in Vista and/or the Vista school district, ought to be paying attention to what may or may not be going on behind the scenes with Lincoln Middle School off Escondido Avenue.
It seems the VUSD Thursday night mulled the possibility of selling the school property, which just […]
In all the “good news” stories of how North County residents are stepping up to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina one story rings hollow on the issue of helping those in need.
Take a gander at today’s New winter shelter programs stall , which tells us among other things:
Plans to create two emergency winter shelters […]
Many folks are thinking and talking about how prepared North County is or isn’t for disaster in lieu of the events in New Orleans.
I offered a few of my thoughts in The Big Uneasy, North County, which already has received a few comments.
One reader, picking up on phrasing I used in the Opinion page commentary […]
This line cracks me up “Being Native Americans, we have had a lot of disappointments in our lives,” he said. “We have almost got rhino skins; you just have to lick your wounds and move on.” Before accusing me of being a racist, check out the context. How many businessmen could get away […]
I am a native Californian. As long as I can remember there always has been a border crisis, things still appear to be the same today as they were 50 years ago. There always will be good along with bad that enter the U.S. borders.
We always will help the poor through taxpayers money until all […]
How much more evidence does a community need to realize the whims of the few are overriding the needs of the many?
The paperwork behind the planning of Oceanside’s prize jewel of a business park support the need for an interchange at Rancho del Oro and Highway 78.
That’s the news in Oceanside business park plan gives […]
Have matters reached a point with illegal crossings of the U.S. border with Mexico that the regional is in a state of emergency — much as if the county had been hit by a major wildfire or earthquake?
The answer to that question is resounding “yes” in the eyes of four area state lawmakers as who […]
Should law enforcement and other emergency personnel reflect the communities they serve and protect?
That’s the basic question as Vista officials call for more Spanish-speaking deputies in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of three young men there by Sheriff’s deputies. All three men were Latinos —- as are about two out of every […]