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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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St. James Academy in Solana Beach was recently honored by the U.S. Department of Education as a Green Ribbon School.
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Policy revision only addresses potential vote conflicts between domestic partners
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Measure failed that would have allowed for senior-care apartment complex
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Operating budget set at $13 million-plus
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Thanks to some observant middle-school students, Solana Beach officials are halting the city’s practice of using fiber rolls wrapped in plastic to control erosion.
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As MTS eyes placing a measure on the 2020 ballot to provide funding for transit projects, they are gathering input with the lofty task of defining what the future of transportation in San Diego should look like.
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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.