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Letters to the Editor
Take a look at what people are talking about on our Letters to the Editor page:
None of the five largest cities in the United States allow their mayor to appoint the city auditor.
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'Unless clear, decisive, and long-term solutions are implemented, municipal services will continue to erode in the future.'
The City Council and mayor oversee the city's redevelopment agencies but as revelations about the Southeastern Economic Development Corp. collect, few seem eager to understand what's happening there.
Everyone's a loser in the death match between the city attorney and mayor.
Oceanside's City Hall and others need to adjust to the realities of a slumping housing market.
The awkward and hasty rollout of the meetings and recommendations of the mayor's Charter Review Committee has left the public underrepresented and unable to be involved in the process.
The Charter Review Committee rushes through major changes to the city's constitution.
There's talk at City Hall right now about instituting a mandatory recycling ordinance. It's about time. Nearly every other municipality in the region did something like this in the early 1990s.
The mayor's explanation for his police chief's misstatements is simple: Residents just can't trust what the police chief says out loud and they should know better than to think they could.
There is something amazing happening to the news media, and voiceofsandiego.org is on the front edge of the innovations causing it.
The organization charged with downtown revitalization has been socking away millions from a boom that two major facilities have largely helped spur. It's time for the city to demand that it help pay them off.
A troubling pattern has emerged for a city attorney who has very publicly announced more investigations and allegations than can be counted, yet actually followed through on precious few. The port should be hyper-vigilant guarding against conflicts of interest when it hires a manager of the massive Gaylord project.
The last thing this city needs is to allow the architects of its flawed charter revision to meet again in a series of secret meetings with members of the City Council.
Political expediency has tainted attempts in the past to fundamentally reform the city's governing blueprint. With deadlines looming, any further delay in planning needed reform would allow ambitious private citizens to forge a ballot initiative of their own.
The agency has strayed from its mission to attract new business to San Diego. Good business executives should be able to save taxpayers money and craft a much more efficient way to get the job done.
Her hard-nosed approach to political corruption and white-collar crime must continue under whatever successor is chosen by the Bush administration.
After a year of acknowledging the city's many woes and shepherding in new assumptions from which officials must now work, Sanders must confront them with bitter medicine.
Local governments, all over the county, would be wise to follow the lead of the San Diego mayor and prepare for the potential financial effects of a substantial decline in the values of homes.
Kroll's recommendations upset the system of checks and balances by shifting too much power to the mayor.
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