Enough gun show craziness
How much more gun violence do we need before the Fair Board steps up and takes a stand on the gun trafficking they sponsor with five gun shows a year?
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Bud’s Corner
Roundabout terror
What a terrifying experience I had today in a non-Del Mar area of the county
The sky is falling?
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” said FDR. Was he watching Del Mar’s Prop J campaign?
The French Connection
America looks like a very appealing teenager full of promise, energy, creativity, yet still unpredictable in making smart decisions.
Evolving Village Specific Plan
Some significant changes in the downtown revitalization draft were made by the Del Mar City Council just a few days ago.
Jul 26, 2012 | Posted in Bud's Corner | Read More »
Not too big, just right; Thresholds and triggers
Del Mar is on the verge of realizing the vision of our Community Plan for a pedestrian-oriented, viable, resident-serving downtown. However, our draft Village Specific Plan(VSP) is arousing fears that we might be growing too big, too fast.
Jul 19, 2012 | Posted in Bud's Corner | Read More »
Walkable Del Mar, finally
We Delmarians will soon have an opportunity to transform our downtown from a car-centric area to a pedestrian-centric environment. We will finally be able to put into place the last element of the vision built into our Community Plan in 1975, a walkable, resident-serving downtown.
Who develops Del Mar?
We do! Downtown Del Mar is called out in our Community Plan as a viable center with small resident-serving businesses in a pedestrian environment with one lane of traffic in each direction.
One hour a month
I recently ran into an old friend raking leaves in her yard and I kidded her about using an old-fashioned implement instead of new gas-fired leaf blowers.
Can the region trust Del Mar?
By Bud Emerson Taking our granddaughters to the fair again this year was a real treat. Except this year the program guide had a snarky full page message from the Fair Board telling all of the million-plus attendees that Del Mar cannot be trusted to run the fairgrounds. The fair and other activities will begin [...]
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LA JOLLA NEWS
- Architecture in the garden: making connections to improve San Diego landscape designLearn about the connection between home and garden for insight into effective San Diego landscape design. […]
- Research Report: Seahorse ‘armor’ influences researchers’ robotic designStudying structures created by nature can lead to new man-made materials. Case in point, researchers at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego are taking clues from seahorse tails in an effort to create a more flexible robotic arm. […]
- Summer is the ideal season for orthodontics in San DiegoBy Dr. Robert Sunstein, Orthodontics in Carmel Valley & La Jolla With summer break just weeks away, kids and parents are quickly filling their calendars with things to do – from causal beach days to road trips, vacations, poolside fun and everything in between. But did you know that summer is one of the best […]
RANCHO SANTA FE NEWS
- Youth volunteers needed for Rancho Santa Fe Library Summer Reading ProgramVolunteers must be between the ages of 12 and 17, and be entering the 7th grade up through senior year of high school in the fall. […]
- Rancho Santa Fe Fire District to hire its own deputy chiefThe Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District will soon have its own deputy chief, a position it once shared with a joint contract between the cities of Encinitas, Del Mar and Solana Beach. […]
- Rancho Santa Fe water district may not have to increase water rates in the new yearThe Santa Fe Irrigation District got some good news this month, as it learned that its wholesale water supplier plans to raise its prices 2.2 percent next year, as opposed to the increase of up to 12.2 percent that had been projected. The change means the district won’t face a steep hike in its own costs for supplying water to its customers in Rancho Santa F […]
