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The end of the year is a time to reflect on one's life and legacy.  It is a particularly compelling time, in view of climate change re...

Art by Sarah Saldana Art by Ricardo Levins Morales  

It has been widely reported that President Obama has offered up benefit cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in previous deficit...

As Democracy Now! has previously reported, one of every four dollars spent on the campaign ads, direct mail and robocalls that target ...

Via Councilwoman Teresa Barth's Newsletter today: As predicted, the smear campaign rolled into high gear this past week.  First ...

Trust that the general voting public knows how they'd like to be treated at city council. Last council meeting's public meeti...

Update at end Confidence fairy regulated financial indebtedness to create a stable economy has failed over and over around the world.  It...

Tree City USA, Urban Forest Policy and other designations claimed by the Encinitas City is largely mythical. It just doesn't seem like...

Finance + Insurance + Real Estate = FIRE "Thirty years ago we could still write of a dichotomy– industry versus finance—and catego...

Although covered elsewhere, the myths of ERGA - Encinitas Ranch Golf Authority - need to be aired in an election year where so many other ...

The Hall property mythologies are some of the longest running in Encinitas history - almost half of the 26 years.  Just in the last week t...

FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ·          The Hall property park will cost $19.3 million to build. The existing funds are only $7.8 million el...

The myth of unlimited growth as fiscal strength  is directly related to the crash course, The Growth Ponzi Scheme featured these last four...

Let's put a face to the engineer who gave us his confession in yesterday's post, Charles Marhon of Strong Towns . 

This Monday's edition is from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance , with thirty-five years of community strengthening research behin...

May we please, my dear neighbors, finally once and for all bury the trope that the council majority is fiscally conservative? And as this...

Myths Encinitas shares a gigantic myth with the rest of country.  So today this should realistically be titled, Myths US of A. Myth: If ...