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Michael Dukakis, 83, former governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic candidate for president, spoke recently to the Rancho Santa Fe Democratic Club where I am VP for programs.
By Gordon Clanton My 400-word limit for these musings often leaves me with more material than I can use, so my desk becomes cluttered with info-bits about the topics of recent columns and other interests.
By Gordon Clanton North Coast columnist Crest Canyon Open Space Park Preserve is a regional treasure, an exquisite wonderland of steep, orange sandstone cliffs and slopes dense with fragrant coastal sage scrub and southern maritime chaparral.
A growing number of “independent” voters hold that there is no meaningful difference between Democrats and Republicans.
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BY GORDON CLANTON North Coastal columnist The proposed widening of Interstate 5 has triggered renewed discussion of how to expand the use of public transportation so as to reduce the need for ever-more freeway lanes.
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By Gordon Clanton My friend Louis Terrell, 75, died Friday, Jan. 3. -
By Gordon Clanton On a recent visit to the Torrey Pines State Beach, I came upon the sights and sounds of a major reshaping of the natural world.
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BY GORDON CLANTON When I tell people I am associated with the Rancho Santa Fe Democratic Club, reactions are predictable: “Rancho Santa Fe Democrats: Isn’t that an oxymoron?”
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By Gordon Clanton • After his Prop 30 tax increase passed by 8 percentage points, Jerry Brown has an easy path to re-election in 2014.
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Falcons junior Nick Herrmann spent 70 days in the hospital and it was feared he might lose his leg
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The newly formed Clean Energy Alliance Board of Directors discussed forming a citizens advisory committees during its monthly meeting on Jan. 16.
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It was only three days into the Avocado West League girls’ soccer schedule but the two teams that took the field at La Costa Canyon Thursday night, both with designs of finishing on the upper half of the league table, were each 0-1 and already in somewhat desperate need of a victory.
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“The Great Leap,” a basketball-centric play, is coming to Old Town San Diego’s Cygnet Theatre Jan. 22, 2020. Written by multi-award-winner Lauren Yee, it was one of the 10 most-produced plays in the United States in 2019, along with her “Cambodian Rock Band,” recently staged at La Jolla Playhouse. “The Great Leap,” which premiered in Denver in 2018, is about an American basketball team going to China for an exhibition game. There’s more than a game at stake; there are long-buried personal histories, a clash of dreams and ambitions, and the main setting is Beijing in 1989, when student protesters were about to be massacred in Tienanmen Square. With all this going on, there’s still plenty of humor — one of the playwright’s conspicuous gifts.
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Benefit event presented by Rancho Coastal Humane Society and San Diego Botanic Garden
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Five years ago, North Coast Repertory Theatre announced the creation of San Diego’s Champion for the Arts Award, a community-wide effort to honor individuals who have made a difference in the Arts.
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I have been writing about local politics in the North Coastal press for more than 25 years.
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gordonBy Gordon Clanton Mail ballots went out Oct. 8.
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The November ballot gives voters 11 opportunities to make law.
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Isn’t Del Mar ever going to have another contested election?
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I have long been opposed to the death penalty. Capital punishment (such a euphemism!)
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In previous columns, I endorsed Bob Filner (San Diego mayor), Dave Roberts (county supervisor), and Scott Peters (Congress).
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The race for mayor of San Diego is important, not only for voters in Del Mar Heights, Carmel Valley, and La Jolla, but also for residents of all communities within reach of this newspaper.
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The San Diego County Board of Supervisors is the neglected stepchild of politics and political journalism.
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Gordon Clanton North Coast columnist The redistricting process of 2010 was not kind to Republican Congressman Brian Bilbray.
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“Habits of the Heart,” a 1986 book by my teacher Robert Bellah and four colleagues, is a sweeping and provocative study of individualism and commitment in American life — and a fit focus for a meditation on community life and civic responsibility.
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