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EDITORIAL: HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL OR HEALTH CARE TYRANNY BILL?
By Mike Benoit April 6, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) — First and foremost the word tyranny, as it is being used here, means: “taking power over something
EDITORIAL: PROPOSITION 14 WILL MAKE OUR BROKEN TWO-PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM EVEN WORSE
By Ann Menasche April 1, 2010 (San Diego)–Proponents of Proposition 14 claim that the “Top two primary” would relieve the partisanship and legislative dysfunction that characterize our political
EDITORIAL: JOBS MUST BE PUT FIRST
By Assemblyman Joel Anderson March 31, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) — A Fresno businessman, Alan Jurkonis, moved his company to Minden, Nevada last year because he said
EDITORIAL: SENATOR KEHOE SEEKS SUPPORT FOR BILL TO INCLUDE SELF-DEFENSE FOR GIRLS IN P.E. CLASSES
By Senator Christine Kehoe March 24, 2010 (San Diego) –Violence against women has plagued the world for centuries, and recent events in San Diego County remind us just how
EDITORIAL: A REVITALIZED MANUFACTURING BASE WILL STABILIZE OUR ECONOMY
By Tracy Emblem March 29, 2010 (San Diego) — For far too long our government has allowed our manufacturing jobs to be outsourced to foreign countries. Recently the Blue-Green
EDITORIAL: SEVEN YEARS!
By Fernando Suarez del Solar Seven years have passed since the darkest day of my life. On March 27, 2003, my son Jesús died in an
EDITORIAL: POWERLINK SHOCKER: FEINSTEIN TELLS FOREST SERVICE CHIEF SHE SUPPORTS POWERLINK, SEES “NO OPPOSITION” OTHER THAN “NIMBY GROUPS FULLY CONSIDERED & DISMISSED”
ECM URGES FEINSTEIN: COME TO A PUBLIC MEETING IN EAST COUNTY ON POWERLINK By Miriam Raftery, Editor March 26, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) – Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) has pressured the head of the U.S. Forest Service in an appropriations
EDITORIAL: STOP THE VIOLENCE OVER HEALTHCARE REFORM
Editor’s note: At least 10 members of Congress who voted for the healthcare reform bill have received threats of violence or harassment. Some family members of Congressional representatives have also
EDITORIAL: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF SENIORS, THE DISABLED, AND THOSE WHO CARE FOR THEM
By Pamela Hoye March 17, 2010 (San Diego) — I was relieved to read in East County Magazine that the federal Department of Justice has come forward
EDITORIAL: AT A CROSSROADS
By Assemblyman Joel Anderson March 2, 2010 (Sacramento)–The RGP Prosthetic Research Center, a San Diego company that provides artificial limbs for California Children’s Services, is in danger of
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EDITORIAL: HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL OR HEALTH CARE TYRANNY BILL?
By Mike Benoit April 6, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) — First and foremost the word tyranny, as it is being used here, means: “taking power over something
EDITORIAL: PROPOSITION 14 WILL MAKE OUR BROKEN TWO-PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM EVEN WORSE
By Ann Menasche April 1, 2010 (San Diego)–Proponents of Proposition 14 claim that the “Top two primary” would relieve the partisanship and legislative dysfunction that characterize our political
EDITORIAL: JOBS MUST BE PUT FIRST
By Assemblyman Joel Anderson March 31, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) — A Fresno businessman, Alan Jurkonis, moved his company to Minden, Nevada last year because he said
EDITORIAL: SENATOR KEHOE SEEKS SUPPORT FOR BILL TO INCLUDE SELF-DEFENSE FOR GIRLS IN P.E. CLASSES
By Senator Christine Kehoe March 24, 2010 (San Diego) –Violence against women has plagued the world for centuries, and recent events in San Diego County remind us just how
EDITORIAL: A REVITALIZED MANUFACTURING BASE WILL STABILIZE OUR ECONOMY
By Tracy Emblem March 29, 2010 (San Diego) — For far too long our government has allowed our manufacturing jobs to be outsourced to foreign countries. Recently the Blue-Green
EDITORIAL: SEVEN YEARS!
By Fernando Suarez del Solar Seven years have passed since the darkest day of my life. On March 27, 2003, my son Jesús died in an
EDITORIAL: POWERLINK SHOCKER: FEINSTEIN TELLS FOREST SERVICE CHIEF SHE SUPPORTS POWERLINK, SEES “NO OPPOSITION” OTHER THAN “NIMBY GROUPS FULLY CONSIDERED & DISMISSED”
ECM URGES FEINSTEIN: COME TO A PUBLIC MEETING IN EAST COUNTY ON POWERLINK By Miriam Raftery, Editor March 26, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) – Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) has pressured the head of the U.S. Forest Service in an appropriations
EDITORIAL: STOP THE VIOLENCE OVER HEALTHCARE REFORM
Editor’s note: At least 10 members of Congress who voted for the healthcare reform bill have received threats of violence or harassment. Some family members of Congressional representatives have also
EDITORIAL: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF SENIORS, THE DISABLED, AND THOSE WHO CARE FOR THEM
By Pamela Hoye March 17, 2010 (San Diego) — I was relieved to read in East County Magazine that the federal Department of Justice has come forward
EDITORIAL: AT A CROSSROADS
By Assemblyman Joel Anderson March 2, 2010 (Sacramento)–The RGP Prosthetic Research Center, a San Diego company that provides artificial limbs for California Children’s Services, is in danger of
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