Category archives for: Editorial

Guest column: Funding cuts to nursing facilities impact us all

Let me tell you a story about how California cares for its most frail, low-income elderly and disabled residents. It has a beginning and middle, but the ending is uncertain.

Editorial: Merrilee Boyack’s Poway legacy

Boy Scouts are often advised to leave the place where they have camped in better condition than when they arrived.

Editorial: Handing out our monthly ‘Thumbs’

The good, and bad, from the month of April.

Editorial: A welcomed change regarding River Park

Although we generally have not been especially impressed with San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s first few months in office, we offer our approval of his decision last week to restore the city’s funding to the San Dieguito River Park.

Viewpoint: Is Espola Road expense really necessary?

Why are we pursuing an expensive project that is greater in scale than what is really needed?

Viewpoint: Fractured minds need Laura’s Law

It seems impossible that we routinely leave people with badly fractured minds to fend for themselves, but we do, every day.

Guest column: Recent research provides some answers to autism

Just two decades ago, autism was a mysterious and somewhat obscure disorder, commonly associated with the movie “Rain Man” and savantism. It affected an estimated 1 in 5,000 children.

Guest column: Boiling the frog

Each time we surrender, voluntarily or otherwise, some liberty or individual right, the flame below gets a wee bit warmer.

Editorial: “Thumbs” for March

THUMBS UP to the three educators who on March 20 were named “Teachers of the Year” in the Poway Unified School District.

Editorial: Proposed legislation could kill newspapers

We join a growing list of community newspapers in asking our readers to write in opposition a bill that, if passed, could literally put many of us out of business.

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