Encinitas has best of races in N. County
July 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
I'm a racist.
It's politically incorrect to say it, but some races are obviously superior to others.
More Logan Jenkins Columns
July 14 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Don't count on SDG&E being fall guy in fires: So this is how the end of the world starts. Not with a bang but with a . . . spark.
July 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Sometimes, there should be crying in baseball: You want to know one of the dumbest cliches ever coined about the great American pastime? There's no crying in baseball.
July 12 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Driver's turn of the wheel changes protest: Note: This column first appeared Thursday in the Our North County editions of the newspaper.
July 10 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
A turn of the wheel changes protest: Before we pardon the dirty bird, consider this: Dissent is, by its nature, confrontational. If political protest doesn't get a critical rise out of a mass of citizens, it's not doing its job.
July 7 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Take superlatives with the finest grain of salt: Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. – William Safire “Application Filed for World's Largest Solar Energy Generating Plant: 30,000 Solar Dishes in the Southern California Desert.”
July 6 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Cops shoot, then (sadly) the waiting game starts: Twenty-two months.
July 3 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Caltrans decision was legal roadkill: 11-SD-005 PM 66.3-68.3 N/B. No, that's not a mistake.
June 30 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Young man, you arrived at an exciting time: To: Austin From: Whatever Goofy Name You Want to Call Me Shhhh. Don't wake up if you're taking a nap.
June 29 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Cemetery isn't a place to take dogs for a walk: A brick – the Gravely Offensive award – to the dog walkers and vandals who contribute to the blighted appearance of the Oceanview Cemetery in downtown Oceanside.
June 26 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Slippery '3A' facts don't take high road: Out in the far northwest corner of Valley Center, the road rage boils down to the word “slip.”
June 23 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Pardon him for gushing over role in the big story: I'm an accidental oracle. It's never praiseworthy to sing one's own praises, but this morning I can't help humming a few bars.
June 22 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Ambitious Democrats' fate lies in GOP hands: The 98-pound Democrats, used to getting sand kicked in their faces by buffed GOP bruisers, are making a show of flexing their tiny muscles in North County's inland capital.
June 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Same-sex weddings just as mundane: They were a study in sartorial contrast, the first two pairs of gay couples to be legally married in North County.
June 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
All they need is the free market and a drill: I love to cover North County's ruling class for at least one major reason. Political purity.
June 15 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Pricey study of initiative has stink of propaganda: A brick – the $30,000 Foregone Conclusion award – to the San Marcos City Council for commissioning an outside consultant's report to embroider the council's well-telegraphed position: A growth-checking initiative, if approved by voters in November, would be a royal pain in the gluteus maximus.
June 12 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Hoping to be left holding the bag: I don't leave home without one. Keys, wallet, cell phone, dark glasses, leash . . . and plastic bag.
June 9 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Torrey Pines is the test for golfers young and old: No matter how many times you see it in print or watch it on TV or hear it said, it's just amazing.
June 5 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Election an appetizer for meatier Nov. vote: Tuesday's was an election for the rock-ribbed voters, the lean and the mean of the electorate, not the flighty will-o'-the wisps who blow in only when they smell national sizzle in the sweepstakes.
June 2 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Slicing a legal hot potato to avoid PR blame: District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis sliced a hot potato in half and handed the hotter half to the state Attorney General's Office.
May 29 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Neighbor has bumpy ride with dealership: Audrey Wells has things to smile about, not the least of which is Morgan, the great-grandson she sometimes baby-sits in the modest Escondido three-bedroom house where she's lived for 40 years.
May 26 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Van Deerlin shared his memories of Oceanside: I first met Lionel Van Deerlin in 1960 on the roof of the U.S. Grant hotel. My father and I had climbed up to better see John F. Kennedy delivering a stump speech in the Plaza below. On the roof ahead of us, reporting for broadcast, was Van Deerlin, my dad's city editor at the San Diego Daily Journal during the late 1940s.
May 25 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
A thriving business, dream home, hearts broken by map line: To you and me, it's a line on a county map.
May 22 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
What city attorney's race could look like: A nice, warm post-mortem beats cold numbers. Thanks to polls, election results are so predictable.
May 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Short story offers hope for pit bulls' future: The first fictional dog I ever knew was the Kid, “the best fighting bull terrier of my weight in Montreal.”
