editorials+commentary
Editorial: Time to think outside the school box
The drive along Sellers Avenue and Delta Road is among the more scenic in East County as you pass by farmland, orchards, goats, horses, produce stands and quaint farmhouses. Unfortunately, these r...
Sep 02, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Editorial: Democracy alive and well in East County
The corruption in Bell, Calif., where city government salaries and benefits ran amok, can, unfortunately, happen anywhere that people are not engaged with their government. Thomas Jefferson never...
Aug 12, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Editorial: Antioch wrong to deny Walmart expansion
In one sense it’s understandable that the Antioch City Council denied Walmart’s expansion last week after hearing from dozens of Lucky and Save Mart employees that their stores would close and the...
Aug 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Guest Comment: What Antioch needs for long-term survival
To the current Antioch City Council: What do you plan to do if the economy gets worse? How will you deal with growing crime in the face of reduced budgets? Will you fast-track business expansion p...
Jul 01, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Guest Comment: Stand up for local fire protection
If you are a resident of Brentwood, Oakley, Discovery Bay, Byron, Bethel Island, Knightsen and/or any of the outlining unincorporated area, please read this – it could affect your life in a very d...
Jun 24, 2010 | 17 17 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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Editorial: Transparency needed when asking for tax hike
(Updated 6/10, 5:30 p.m.) Antioch is in a pickle. After slashing $11 million from last year’s budget, resulting in layoffs, service cuts, closure of City Hall on Fridays and 73 positions remaining...
Jun 10, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Editorial: Brentwood’s past is key to its future
As the battle over Brentwood’s Measure F rises to its June 8 climax, the atmosphere in which voters will make an important decision about their city’s future has become increasingly poisoned. Char...
May 27, 2010 | 7 7 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Guest Comment: Measure F: just another housing development
Although proponents of Measure F would like to call those who would vote against them as No Growth Opponents, this isn’t even close to the truth. It would be naïve to believe that this area would ...
May 20, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Editorial: Now is the time – ‘Yes’ on Measure F
Stroll down the freezer aisle of your favorite grocery store and you’ll find a classic dessert known as Neapolitan ice cream. Traditionally, it contains three flavors in equal measure – chocolate,...
May 13, 2010 | 3 3 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Guest Comment: Measure F challenge: If not now, when?
I have been a builder for over 40 years and I am very proud of every development I have been involved with, including Shadow Lakes. I own one of the properties that would be affected by the passag...
May 06, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Editorial: When public servants become the masters
Government, it seems, is failing at all levels. The federal government is nearly $13 trillion in debt, heading toward more than $20 trillion in the next 10 years, while Securities and Exchange Com...
May 02, 2010 | 4 4 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Editorial: When public servants become the masters
Government, it seems, is failing at all levels. The federal government is nearly $13 trillion in debt, heading toward more than $20 trillion in the next 10 years, while Securities and Exchange Com...
Apr 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Editorial: Others should pick up on Antioch cleanup
Antioch has dealt with more than its share of problems in recent years: an increase in violent crime, a budget crisis resulting in the layoff of dozens of city employees, hundreds of foreclosures ...
Apr 15, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Guest Comment: Don’t sell Brentwood short – hold the ULL
I have read the proponents’ commentary with their appeal to the residents of Brentwood to move the Urban Limit Line ( ULL ) so that they may build on their land west of Heritage High. They claim i...
Apr 08, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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Time to think outside the BART box
Bay Area motorists in general and East County motorists in particular know that the area suffers from a significant transportation problem. The daily bumper-to-bumper grind on Highway 4 frays nerv...
Apr 01, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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