Editorials
East County Magazine
EDITORIAL: FINANCIAL RAPE OF POWAY TAXPAYERS/HOMEOWNERS
By Morrie Itzkowitz April 23, 2010 (Poway)–It’s un-American; it’s financial rape; it’s against State Law – the City is planning to sell the land under our homes to a Chicago
EDITORIAL: GOLDEN EAGLES FALL PREY TO WIND INDUSTRY
By Jim Wiegand, wildlife biologist April 17, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) — The controversy surrounding wind farms in America has been brewing for over 25 years. The debate
EDITORIAL: WHY DIDN’T SAN DIEGO COUNTY POST ANY INFO ABOUT THE QUAKES AT ITS “EMERGENCY” WEBSITE?
By Miriam Raftery, Editor www.EastCountyMagazine.org April 6, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) – More than 24 hours after a 7.2 earthquake jolted our region, triggering more than
EDITORIAL: MOST ALPINE RESIDENTS WANT HIGH SCHOOL NAMED FOR OUR REGION, NOT REAGAN
GUHSD TO HOLD HEARING APRIL 15 ON PROPOSAL TO NAME SCHOOL AFTER REAGAN By Bill Weaver, Chairman, Alpine High School Citizens Committee April 8, 2010 (Alpine) — There
EDITORIAL: SHOULD SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS LIKE THE HEALTH REFORMS?
By Sylvia Hampton April 6, 2010 (San Diego) –Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, in his monthly report to the district, continues his opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable
EDITORIAL: HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL OR HEALTH CARE TYRANNY BILL?
By Mike Benoit April 6, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) — First and foremost the word tyranny, as it is being used here, means: “taking power over something
EDITORIAL: PROPOSITION 14 WILL MAKE OUR BROKEN TWO-PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM EVEN WORSE
By Ann Menasche April 1, 2010 (San Diego)–Proponents of Proposition 14 claim that the “Top two primary” would relieve the partisanship and legislative dysfunction that characterize our political
EDITORIAL: JOBS MUST BE PUT FIRST
By Assemblyman Joel Anderson March 31, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) — A Fresno businessman, Alan Jurkonis, moved his company to Minden, Nevada last year because he said
EDITORIAL: SENATOR KEHOE SEEKS SUPPORT FOR BILL TO INCLUDE SELF-DEFENSE FOR GIRLS IN P.E. CLASSES
By Senator Christine Kehoe March 24, 2010 (San Diego) –Violence against women has plagued the world for centuries, and recent events in San Diego County remind us just how
EDITORIAL: A REVITALIZED MANUFACTURING BASE WILL STABILIZE OUR ECONOMY
By Tracy Emblem March 29, 2010 (San Diego) — For far too long our government has allowed our manufacturing jobs to be outsourced to foreign countries. Recently the Blue-Green