If you're an Escondido resident, the natural reaction to the latest news from the local NFL franchise may be to feel a bit the jilted lover.
Nov 15, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
It was a jarring sight at first glance, someone puffing on a cigarette at my favorite bar. It was the sort of alarming feeling one gets whenever one sees sacred social mores violated ---- kind of like coming home and finding your home burglarized, I suppose. That someone would so openly f…
Nov 08, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
In reading Eric Wolff's story in Wednesday's North County Times about how families are being priced out of the local real estate market by investors willing (and able) to pay cash for houses as they come on the market, I was left wondering if the government is serious about promoting home…
Nov 01, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
If California voters decide to legalize marijuana via ballot measure next year ---- or at any point in the future ---- the state's law-enforcement leadership will have only itself to blame.
Oct 25, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Reading about the two deaths at an Arizona sweat lodge a couple weeks ago, my reaction wasn't shock so much as surprise that it doesn't happen more often.
Oct 18, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
It was the kind of week that makes life easy on opinion columnists. From the ACLU demanding the U.S. government stop patrolling the international border with Mexico to the Westboro Baptist Church of Kansas announcing it was coming to our area to protest Judaism, the local crop of low-hang…
Oct 11, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
With the Chargers looking to stay local enough to keep "San Diego" as part of the team name, but the City of San Diego far too dysfunctional to be able to help the team build a new stadium, smaller burgs around the county are receiving renewed attention from team officials.
Oct 04, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
The argument for granting civilian oversight boards stronger powers to investigate police shootings isn't one I've given much weight to in the past. But given the apparent unwillingness of our elected district attorneys to bring charges against police involved in shootings, no matter how …
Sep 27, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
A young man is dead, shot to death by a private security guard at a Sprinter station.
Sep 20, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
The members of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors are a bit confused.
Sep 13, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
The suits at SDG&E are no better than a bunch of addicts, unable to deny themselves any hit they can lay their hands on.
Sep 05, 2009 | 12:10 am | Loading…
Why is it so very difficult for Francine Busby to admit when she's wrong? To apologize?
Aug 30, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Nobody wants to be seen as picking on the disabled, not even a curmudgeonly newspaper columnist. And certainly not the week after Eunice Kennedy Shriver passed on.
Aug 23, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Reading our news account of last week's health care "reform" town hall in Rancho Bernardo brought a couple of thoughts to mind:
Aug 16, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
If politics is the art of the possible, then perhaps public relations is merely the art of the plausible.
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