Rusty Harris left out a key fact about the Rancho Del Oro interchange story. The 78/RDO interchange was planned when the area between Vista Way and Oceanside Blvd was zoned industrial many years ago. But this area was subsequently rezoned residential and built up with single-family homes and condos.
Why does this […]
Pay attention Wednesday night (Sept. 21) to what goes on with Jack Feller’s proposal for the Oceanside City Council to put additional studies of an controversial road project on the ballot for all city voters to weigh in on.
My take on Feller’s gambit regarding the long-proposed interchange of Rancho del Oro Drive and Highway 78 […]
There ought to be more than a few raised eyebrows among concerned taxpayers of the Vista Unifed School District.
The school district that covers all of Vista and parts of Oceanside is considering whether to close a couple of schools and sell the property because they’re not longer necessary, which is all well and fine.
But part […]
Water Board should be Ashamed
It’s not just the oil companies that are raking in huge windfalls, both pre-hurricane and post. Since gasoline is more or less a necessity in California and the amount one buys remains fairly constant independent of the price, one has to assume the sales tax we are paying to the state has increased in […]
The cynical among us may question why a businessman would spend $250,000 of his own money to bail some desperate folks out Read following Hurricane Katrina. I don’t care about the motive at this point, the folks who took their time and money to get those folks to safety deserve some kind of medal.
Folks outside public education circles often shake their heads when hearing about certain goings on in classrooms these days.
Such might be the case after reading Vista transfers teacher over testing issue. In this piece, appearing in the NCT today, one learns a Vista Unified School District teacher admits to having posted multiplication tables in a […]
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 […]
Wondering why more people aren’t as excited as I am over city of Escondido’s new rules on graffiti and graffiti removal — to wit, that they’re going to fine people who don’t remove graffiti from their property in a timely manner? I’ve had good experiences calling the city’s graffiti hotline, and with city crews […]
The article in today’s paper written by William Finn Bennett isn’t exactly accurate when describing how the town hall meeting on illegal immigration was “packed” by anti-illegal immigrant activists.