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East County Magazine
READER’S EDITORIAL: SHOULD EMPLOYERS BE ABLE TO EXCLUDE BIRTH CONTROL FROM HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE?
By Joel A. Harrison, PhD, MPH December 11, 2013 (San Diego)–The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether for-profit companies can be forced to provide full
READER’S EDITORIAL: MY WORLD IN SEPIA – REMEMBERING THE GREAT CEDAR FIRE OF 2013
By E.A. Barrera November 27, 2013 (San Diego) – Even now, ten years since the flames have died and the air has cleared, the sight of it all
READER’S EDITORIAL: TARGETED BY A DRONE CULTURE
By Lisa Elkins The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has resolved to push ahead with a plan to expand its drone combat weapons system despite the malfunctioning drone that
READER’S EDITORIAL: AN OPEN LETTER TO SAN DIEGO INTERIM MAYOR TODD GLORIA: “HAVE A HEART”
By Claudia Millerbragg I am asking you to put human life before money. If you continue with your plans to drain Lake Morena it puts the residents of rural
READER’S EDITORIAL: DRONE TESTING AREA CREATES HUGE LIABILITY, AND MANY QUESTIONS
By Dave Patterson November 18, 2013 (San Diego’s East County) – On September 24, the County Board of Supervisors threw their support behind a Southern California drone testing zone.
READER’S EDITORIAL: FALSEHOODS IN THE OCOTILLO WIND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
By Tom Budlong I just mined the Ocotillo project’s Environmental Impact Statement issued before the project was approved. The document’s job is to predict the project’s impacts. On noise:
READER’S EDITORIAL: REMEMBERING A WORLD LOST IN THE CEDAR FIRE
By Cindy Buxton, Chair Forest Committee, San Diego Sierra Club November 2, 2013 (Cleveland National Forest) – It’s been ten years since the Cedar Fire. Now it’s the beginning
READER’S EDITORIAL: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SDG&E’S PROPOSAL FOR CLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST
By Cindy Buxton, Chair, Forest Committee of the San Diego Sierra Club “This is the general “neck of the woods” of the famous Cedar Creek Falls and Three
READER’S EDITORIAL: A WAKEUP CALL
By Dave Patterson, Ramona This is a wakeup call for everyone that assumes that our jobs and pensions are secure, and that we will be taken care of
READER’S EDITORIAL: WE GRIEVE
Editor‘s note: We received this editorial from a Canadian reader in response to our coverage of the Ocotillo Wind Energy Project’s impacts on our
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