Editorials

Happy Talk While City Lists

'Unless clear, decisive, and long-term solutions are implemented, municipal services will continue to erode in the future.'

SEDC Questions Multiplying But Answers Slow to Come

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.

Grow Up

Everyone's a loser in the death match between the city attorney and mayor.

» | Oct 16

Good Times Can't Keep Rolling

Oceanside's City Hall and others need to adjust to the realities of a slumping housing market.

» | Sep 25

Getting Lost in Translation

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.

» | Sep 11

Don't Worry, It's Just Temporary

The Charter Review Committee rushes through major changes to the city's constitution.

» | Aug 15

Pitch In for Recycling

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.

» | Jul 17

The Shield

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.

» | May 30

Feeling Good About the Future of Journalism

There is something amazing happening to the news media, and voiceofsandiego.org is on the front edge of the innovations causing it.

» | May 2

CCDC's Time to Pony Up

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.

» | Apr 11

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