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Like scratching and itch that had been just out of reach, the new Deputy Mayor Lisa Shaffer seized on a future agenda request that felt p...

Lisa Shaffer (new Deputy Mayor), Tony Kranz & Mark Muir with Kathy Hollywood, City Clerk.  Patch Photo via Dave Roberts Twitter.  ...

The long cold winter of our voices, Teresa Barth's voice being frozen out is over. Tonight Stocks and Bond leave and Lisa Shaffer and ...

OMG . . . OMG . . . OMG  Did you think it would ever end? Editor Lisa's requests:  Bring Back Campaign Signs Sign Collection...

As if by magic, a wave of endorsements from a whole group of young professionals appeared to support Tony Kranz and Lisa Shaffer in this ...

Update  at end Two days more to the campaigns for city council members.  Today, a Sunday, is a good day for families where moms and dads ...

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

The three zombie pumpkins make this the last Halloween themed post.  Promise.  Besides autumn being a favorite season for harvest reasons,...

Five is a fundamental number in our Encinitas Universe.  Five separate former towns or areas with self-identified communities worked very ...

Finally single digits in the countdown. 9 candidates and it is obvious that many haven't lifted a finger - speaking of digits - in t...

"One you would consider a very primitive life form. A person without principles or morals.  By [his] recent official actions one m...

Those who are watching are very unhappy with the current council majority marshaled by Jerome Stocks. Besides the unwelcoming behavior, ru...

At a loss this morning for how to best characterize last night's special council meeting and the performance success of City Manager, ...

This piece from candidate for city council, Lisa Shaffer, was published in both the Patch online and The Coast News June 14, 2012. ...

May as National Bike Month means we'll keep up the ongoing coverage of our changing ways and increased biking. All of these various si...

Although it was a meeting built around the mayor's state of the city, Stocks sort of phoned it in. More interesting for this blogger is...

The clip below captures our mayor seizing another opportunity to belittle Teresa Barth's reasonable points. The issue at hand is the ite...

Update at end. So the song says . . . or something kind of similar, maybe. This is in jest because our mayor decided to send out a slap d...