Around the County: We need freeways and roads
A weekly op-ed by San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond covering a range of issues....
Opinion
Mayor’s Minute: Encinitas focused on quality-of-life, environmental improvements
In Encinitas, we’re focused on environmental and quality-of-life improvements of all types. I’m excited to tell you about several of them. Our first railroad “quiet...
Opinion: Proposition B is bad for senior citizens
Proposition B is bad for seniors, and completely incompatible and destructively intrusive for the existing community....
The spirit of Prop T at stake in senior-care facility vote
From my many years serving on both the Solana Beach City Council and the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, I learned that making land...
Opinion: Measuring radiation risk from San Onofre
Does San Onofre present a major radiation risk for Southern California?...
Opinion: Flawed Leucadia Streetscape needs a redesign
Although this project is more than a decade in the works I feel, as planned, this project will have a serious, detrimental effect on our...
Mayor’s Minute: The truth about Encinitas housing
The City of Encinitas just accomplished something truly historic. For the first time in 24 years, we sent an approved housing plan to the State...
Opinion: Trees in Leucadia from 839 to zero!
By Leah Bissonette Late in the day on Monday, March 25, the City issued its report for the new, temporary Streetscape plan. Many of us...
Opinion: The legislature’s culture war on civil rights
By Jim Mosher The California Legislature’s ongoing war against the Bill of Rights ramped up February 22 as state Assembly members Todd Gloria (D-San Diego)...
Still Getting it Wrong: The Samuel Lawrence Foundation and Spent Nuclear Fuel
There is a huge difference between “downplaying risks,” as the Samuel Lawrence Foundation asserts, and appropriately assessing risk and then mitigating, or lessening that risk....
