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READER’S EDITORIAL: DRONE TESTING AREA CREATES HUGE LIABILITY, AND MANY QUESTIONS
By Dave Patterson November 18, 2013 (San Diego’s East County) – On September 24, the County Board of Supervisors threw their support behind a Southern California drone testing zone.
READER’S EDITORIAL: FALSEHOODS IN THE OCOTILLO WIND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
By Tom Budlong I just mined the Ocotillo project’s Environmental Impact Statement issued before the project was approved. The document’s job is to predict the project’s impacts. On noise:
READER’S EDITORIAL: REMEMBERING A WORLD LOST IN THE CEDAR FIRE
By Cindy Buxton, Chair Forest Committee, San Diego Sierra Club November 2, 2013 (Cleveland National Forest) – It’s been ten years since the Cedar Fire. Now it’s the beginning
READER’S EDITORIAL: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SDG&E’S PROPOSAL FOR CLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST
By Cindy Buxton, Chair, Forest Committee of the San Diego Sierra Club “This is the general “neck of the woods” of the famous Cedar Creek Falls and Three
READER’S EDITORIAL: A WAKEUP CALL
By Dave Patterson, Ramona This is a wakeup call for everyone that assumes that our jobs and pensions are secure, and that we will be taken care of
READER’S EDITORIAL: WE GRIEVE
Editor‘s note: We received this editorial from a Canadian reader in response to our coverage of the Ocotillo Wind Energy Project’s impacts on our
READER’S EDITORIAL: REP. DUNCAN HUNTER’S LACK OF AWARENESS
By Hugh Moore, Treasurer, San Diego County Green Party Oct. 18, 2013 (San Diego’s East County) — I received the attached response to my letter asking my representative, Duncan Hunter,
READER’S EDITORIAL: OCOTILLO WIND ENERGY FACILITY– I AM A RESIDENT
By Parke Ewing “Our desert home is not really a home any longer, it is just a place to fight wind turbine syndrome, since the turbines crank out profits for
READER’S EDITORIAL: NIGHTMARE SCENARIO? BREAKING
By Nadin Abbott October 9, 2013 (San Diego) As things go, this is not precisely the best of news. Fidelity has sold a lot of its government debt. So reports
READERS EDITORIAL: SOUNDING THE ALARM AS COUNTY BREAKS PROMISES FOR FIRE PROTECTION IN RURAL EAST COUNTY
By Howard W Cook, Jacumba Hot Springs Sponsor Group Chair September 30, 2013 (Jacumba) — When the Jacumba Hot Springs Community showed up to attend The Real East County
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READER’S EDITORIAL: DRONE TESTING AREA CREATES HUGE LIABILITY, AND MANY QUESTIONS
By Dave Patterson November 18, 2013 (San Diego’s East County) – On September 24, the County Board of Supervisors threw their support behind a Southern California drone testing zone.
READER’S EDITORIAL: FALSEHOODS IN THE OCOTILLO WIND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
By Tom Budlong I just mined the Ocotillo project’s Environmental Impact Statement issued before the project was approved. The document’s job is to predict the project’s impacts. On noise:
READER’S EDITORIAL: REMEMBERING A WORLD LOST IN THE CEDAR FIRE
By Cindy Buxton, Chair Forest Committee, San Diego Sierra Club November 2, 2013 (Cleveland National Forest) – It’s been ten years since the Cedar Fire. Now it’s the beginning
READER’S EDITORIAL: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SDG&E’S PROPOSAL FOR CLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST
By Cindy Buxton, Chair, Forest Committee of the San Diego Sierra Club “This is the general “neck of the woods” of the famous Cedar Creek Falls and Three
READER’S EDITORIAL: A WAKEUP CALL
By Dave Patterson, Ramona This is a wakeup call for everyone that assumes that our jobs and pensions are secure, and that we will be taken care of
READER’S EDITORIAL: WE GRIEVE
Editor‘s note: We received this editorial from a Canadian reader in response to our coverage of the Ocotillo Wind Energy Project’s impacts on our
READER’S EDITORIAL: REP. DUNCAN HUNTER’S LACK OF AWARENESS
By Hugh Moore, Treasurer, San Diego County Green Party Oct. 18, 2013 (San Diego’s East County) — I received the attached response to my letter asking my representative, Duncan Hunter,
READER’S EDITORIAL: OCOTILLO WIND ENERGY FACILITY– I AM A RESIDENT
By Parke Ewing “Our desert home is not really a home any longer, it is just a place to fight wind turbine syndrome, since the turbines crank out profits for
READER’S EDITORIAL: NIGHTMARE SCENARIO? BREAKING
By Nadin Abbott October 9, 2013 (San Diego) As things go, this is not precisely the best of news. Fidelity has sold a lot of its government debt. So reports
READERS EDITORIAL: SOUNDING THE ALARM AS COUNTY BREAKS PROMISES FOR FIRE PROTECTION IN RURAL EAST COUNTY
By Howard W Cook, Jacumba Hot Springs Sponsor Group Chair September 30, 2013 (Jacumba) — When the Jacumba Hot Springs Community showed up to attend The Real East County
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