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- Letters to the editor: Regional Edition
Regarding “Court affirms individual right to own gun” (A1, June 27):
The U.S. Supreme Court decision on guns may provide some help for cities, counties and states to control firearms in a unique way. If I understand the decision correctly, it reaffirms the right of individuals to bear arms, while permitting some controls by governmental entities.
- Local Letters: East County
Let's see if I have this correct. Our governor negotiates a compact with four of the richest tribes in Southern California, one of them being Sycuan. Webster's definition of a compact is “an agreement or covenant between two or more parties,” which I think would have to be signed by both to be valid.
- Local Letters: San Diego
I am pleased that you are covering the story about the YWCA proposal to manage the Family Justice Center. I am deeply sorry that the focus of the story is on Donna Frye, Mike Aguirre and Casey Gwinn.
- Local Letters: North County
There you go again about Escondido. Do you realize that this City Council is the most civilized, productive and earnest we've had in years? It doesn't look at citizens as mobile park homeowners or Hispanics or any other demographic folder you put people in. It thinks of all of us as residents of this city and is trying to protect the quality of the city. That means we all play by the same rules.
- Local Letters: South County
How pathetic is it that concerned residents in Chula Vista are reduced to filing Fair Political Practices Commission complaints in response to the city's misconduct in commissioning a biased economic study of Proposition E in the final weeks of the election, while opponents of the Cox family get targeted by professional prosecutors for similar offenses
- DAVID BROOKS THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Sam's Club agenda of the GOP
Among the many dark tidings for American conservatism, there is one genuine bright spot. Over the past five years, a group of young and unpredictable rightward-leaning writers has emerged on the scene.
- The high cost of dropouts to themselves and the state
Before Jose Orozco got himself together enough to get his GED, attend San Diego City College, transfer to San Diego State, then California Western School of Law, he showed up at San Diego High School only for lunch and freshman phys ed. Soon he dropped out altogether, joining a host of students then and now for whom ninth grade is a prime dropout time.
- It was a match made – well, in North County
A school found a home while a city landed another part of its identity. The occasion at High Tech High North County was not so much a groundbreaking as a marriage ceremony.
- MARCELA SANCHEZ THE WASHINGTON POST
Boosting hemispheric economic ties
It has been a frustrating start of the century for those promoting economic integration of the Americas. The hemisphere seems more ideologically divided than at any time since the Cold War, putting off any hopes of reviving the idea of a Free Trade Area of the Americas, snuffed out two and a half years ago in Argentina when regional leaders spent more time emphasizing their differences than anything they had in common.
- Main Street El Cajon, Main Street America
If East County is anything, it is a bastion of small businesses. Not those 499-employee firms the government is willing to call small business, but the outfits where the owners know the names of all the workers, the spouses, the kids.
- Chula Vista's divisions will be slow to heal
The battle over Proposition E was bitter. (Land use battles in cities often are.) But the big irony in Chula Vista is that this particular election was waged in the name of protecting Chula Vista's future redevelopment prospects, when in fact the conduct of the election itself has made those prospects much worse.
- EDITORIAL
A major accomplishment brings no celebration
Let's consider the enormity of what Chula Vista has just accomplished. While there is little joy in completing this task, Chula Vista's example could be a model for the county's 17 other cities about to be faced with the same hard choices.
- North County FYI
- This Day In History
Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, are assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist. The event triggers World War I.
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