Our Mayor

"Our culture is centered on a myth of economic growth: if we stop growing, that means we’re failing. Under conventional wisdom, grow...

Tough week.  Sometimes it is difficult here in our well off beach town to remember it isn't whitelandia of straightville . . . Well, y...

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

Make the connection "In several recent articles in our local San Diego County papers, the L.A. Times and the New York Times, it i...

Is change in the air? "I was pleasantly surprised when I watched this week’s Encinitas City Council meeting. Instead of the specta...

Remember the mapping exercise, placing 10 dots - each to represent 130 housing units - where you wanted on the map of Encinitas?   This ...

What a remarkable sensation to experience the calm of civility at last night's city council meeting.  Were Mark Muir and Kristin Gaspa...

Citizens elected a council of bicyclists, said the mobility coordinator in the video below. Let's take a virtual road trip to a neighb...

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...

Time to trot out years of clips regarding the Hall property.  Witness how this property has been used for campaign strategy in the past as...

Explain to us exactly what is so delightfully comical about your Deputy Mayor acting out a kind of petulant interruption to the final vote...

  "Where is the outcry for this issue?" She answers simply, "This is an issue because you can't get along." ...

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

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

They are nothing if not relentless in their goal to completely silence Councilwoman Barth and the large number of voters who she represe...

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