The war of words on the homefront over the United States policy towards and involvement in Iraq has moved front and center into North County news with two recent developments.
First, there was the family that removed the name of their son from a cross that had been set up by Cindy Sheehan outside President […]
The headline reads Escondido offers business park for hospital, which is all well and fine and terrific news. But wait a minute. This new offer sounds an awfully lot like what the hospital district said all along it was planning to do in the first place, doesn’t it?
Councilmembers Ed Gallo and Marie Waldron apparently have […]
In Oceanside, the battle for an interchange with Highway 78 at Rancho del Oro continues on.
Councilmen Rocky Chavez and Jack Feller, the losing duo in a 3-2 Aug. 18 city council vote to remove funding for the long planned interchange, are citing a 2003 study in a story that appeared in today’s NCT, Traffic study […]
A letter to the editor in today’s paper by Elizabeth Decker brought up the fact that the NC Times has not covered the ’scandal’ by the San Diego County Supervisors’ “inappropriate use of taxpayer money through their slush funds initially reported in the Union-Tribune.” Two of those supervisors for North County, Pam Slater […]
How far to the right can one go on the issue of the U.S.-Mexico border will be the issue in the 2006 Republican primary for the 50th Congressional District seat being vacated by Randy “Duke” Cunningham, or so it appears to some.
For those thoughts on the race check out this piece by William Finn Bennett, […]
Mayor Lewis has quite an analytic mind, doesn’t he?
Took him no time at all to figure out, who the troublemakers were in Carlsbad!
I just hope he is MUCH_MUCH better at solving his community’s issues …
But, he is a politician, and the blame-game is in. It wouldn’t be politically correct to blame (those) […]
It is not quite the “Battle for Planet Earth,” but in a way it is — as beings of the human kind (mainly us folks) deal with our fellow beings of the world, you know — critters and such.
Over in all-so-nice La Costa, it seems coyotes are no longer welcome to hang around, at least […]
So now it turns out that the mayor of Carlsbad wants more than $100,000 from Sen. Morrow for that “public forum” last week according to this article in the NCT today. I saw all those cops in their riot gear and knew it was going to cost a fortune.
How about these statements?
“Those costs […]
In September of 1977, a class action suit Plyler v. Doe, was filed on behalf of illegal immigrant children, who were at the time residing in Smith County, Texas. The parents of these children, who were currently working in the country illegally, argued that their children had just as much right to an education, as […]
An interesting issue to kick around as the summer winds down:
When is the right to assemble and exercise free speech not “free”?
That’s the basic point raised in the dispute between Carlsbad Mayor Bud Lewis and state Sen. Bill Morrow over who should foot a $1oo,ooo bill for security costs for a public forum hosted by […]