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READER’S EDITORIAL: SAN MIGUEL FIRE TO VOTE JULY 6 ON SPLITTING WITH CAL FIRE: PUBLIC INPUT NEEDED
Printer-friendly version Update: San Miguel Fire Protection District board member Theresa McKenna has responded to Robert Perry’s editorial to detail how much notice and discussion has been held

READER’S EDITORIAL: BORDER FIRE SURVIVOR ASKS SUPERVISOR JACOB AND AGENCIES TO HOLD TOWN HALL MEETING ON FIRE ISSUES IN THE AREAS THAT BURNED
Printer-friendly version By Jan Hedlun Potrero Resident and Wildfire Survivor June 28, 2016 (Potrero) –I have heard that local and government agencies involved in the Border Fire are already

READER’S EDITORIAL: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND DONALD TRUMP
Printer-friendly version By Daniel J. Smiechowski June 23, 2016 (San Diego) — There are approximately 78 million Catholics in America. Fifty percent of them voted for President Obama in

READER’S EDITORIAL: STAND TOGETHER #WITHREFUGEES ON #WORLDREFUGEEDAY
Printer-friendly version By Elizabeth Lou June 20, 2016 (San Diego) — With all the cataclysmic incidences happening around the world, the refugee crisis is one of chief concerns in

READER’S EDITORIAL: 2ND AMENDMENT MISINTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION IS CAUSE FOR PROLIFERATION OF GUN VIOLENCE
Printer-friendly version A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

READER’S EDITORIAL: HARVESTING EAGLES – PART TWO
Printer-friendly version How agencies charged with protecting our wildlife continue to betray our trust By Jim Wiegand June 13, 2016 (San Diego) – It is difficult to read that

READER’S EDITORIAL: HARVESTING EAGLES – PART ONE
Printer-friendly version By Jim Wiegand “…FWS (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) announced a plan on 5/6/2016 that would allow wind energy companies to legally kill or injure up to

READER’S EDITORIAL: YOUR NAME IS MUHAMMED ALI
Printer-friendly version By Dr. Arif Ahmad Reprinted with permission from The Moderate Voice, a San Diego Online News Association member What’s my name? What’s my name? Most of us

READER’S EDITORIAL: THE MUNICIPAL BOND MARKET IS A MASSIVE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE — GET OUT NOW OR PAY LATER
Printer-friendly version By Richard Lawless June 2, 2016 (San Diego) — Senior citizens and savers throughout the fifty states and Puerto Rico have taken tens of billions in municipal

READER’S EDITORIAL: DENYING PATIENTS ACCESS TO EMERGENCY MEDICATIONS
Printer-friendly version By Ryan Roper, San Diego May 7, 2016 (San Diego) — The triage, treatment and transport emergency medical service practitioners provide can often be the difference between
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READER’S EDITORIAL: SAN MIGUEL FIRE TO VOTE JULY 6 ON SPLITTING WITH CAL FIRE: PUBLIC INPUT NEEDED
Printer-friendly version Update: San Miguel Fire Protection District board member Theresa McKenna has responded to Robert Perry’s editorial to detail how much notice and discussion has been held

READER’S EDITORIAL: BORDER FIRE SURVIVOR ASKS SUPERVISOR JACOB AND AGENCIES TO HOLD TOWN HALL MEETING ON FIRE ISSUES IN THE AREAS THAT BURNED
Printer-friendly version By Jan Hedlun Potrero Resident and Wildfire Survivor June 28, 2016 (Potrero) –I have heard that local and government agencies involved in the Border Fire are already

READER’S EDITORIAL: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND DONALD TRUMP
Printer-friendly version By Daniel J. Smiechowski June 23, 2016 (San Diego) — There are approximately 78 million Catholics in America. Fifty percent of them voted for President Obama in

READER’S EDITORIAL: STAND TOGETHER #WITHREFUGEES ON #WORLDREFUGEEDAY
Printer-friendly version By Elizabeth Lou June 20, 2016 (San Diego) — With all the cataclysmic incidences happening around the world, the refugee crisis is one of chief concerns in

READER’S EDITORIAL: 2ND AMENDMENT MISINTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION IS CAUSE FOR PROLIFERATION OF GUN VIOLENCE
Printer-friendly version A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

READER’S EDITORIAL: HARVESTING EAGLES – PART TWO
Printer-friendly version How agencies charged with protecting our wildlife continue to betray our trust By Jim Wiegand June 13, 2016 (San Diego) – It is difficult to read that

READER’S EDITORIAL: HARVESTING EAGLES – PART ONE
Printer-friendly version By Jim Wiegand “…FWS (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) announced a plan on 5/6/2016 that would allow wind energy companies to legally kill or injure up to

READER’S EDITORIAL: YOUR NAME IS MUHAMMED ALI
Printer-friendly version By Dr. Arif Ahmad Reprinted with permission from The Moderate Voice, a San Diego Online News Association member What’s my name? What’s my name? Most of us

READER’S EDITORIAL: THE MUNICIPAL BOND MARKET IS A MASSIVE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE — GET OUT NOW OR PAY LATER
Printer-friendly version By Richard Lawless June 2, 2016 (San Diego) — Senior citizens and savers throughout the fifty states and Puerto Rico have taken tens of billions in municipal

READER’S EDITORIAL: DENYING PATIENTS ACCESS TO EMERGENCY MEDICATIONS
Printer-friendly version By Ryan Roper, San Diego May 7, 2016 (San Diego) — The triage, treatment and transport emergency medical service practitioners provide can often be the difference between