The Rostra Archive

Guest Commentary by Robert E. Bennett I grew up in Burbank, California and in the late 1950s, global warming was always present in the summer. That’s why my mother and father would get us in our 1957 Ford Country Sedan station wagon and head on down to La Jolla. I had four aunts and a grandmother living there. We would …

As someone who grew up in San Diego, I have always believed that we need to be as connected as possible to the news that was happening all around us.  We’ve seen in recent years, cornerstones of local media like the San Diego Union-Tribune downsize their presence and reduce their newsroom staff and with it, significantly changing how national news …

Guest Commentary by County Supervisor Bill Horn This month, the Board of Supervisors made a decision on what I consider the most important issue I have dealt with during my 16 years as your County Supervisor. The vote was to move ahead with the County’s General Plan Update (GPU), a document that sets the course for land use decisions in …

Sylvia Sullivan is a much-respected East County conservative leader.  In this column she describes last weekend’s chaotic CRA convention in Sacramento.   Incredibly, she reports here, Senator Joel Anderson and others were denied their right to vote as CRA delegates.   Here is Sylvia’s eyewitness account: There were four police squad cars in the front parking lot as I arrived at the CRA …

Guest Commentary by Rick Winet The Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, is a courageous leader and representative of The People. I believe that the law he crafted and signed on March 11 will be duplicated by numerous States in the coming months. The vast majority of “news reporting” on this important issue – the fiscal solvency of our government – …

Guest Commentary by Rhonda Deniston In November 2010 the American voter sent a luminous message around the nation that they want responsible and fiscally conservative representatives, not at just the Federal level, but at the state and local level as well. Wisconsin, a leftist state, actually voted for both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama by double digits in recent elections, …

Guest Commentary by Steve Green As a Certified Public Accountant since 1987, I — along with others in my field — have been inundated by incorrect Internal Revenue Service notices, ignored letters sent certified, and ignored fax information. The IRS has also accelerated the collections process during a period of instability due to new hires. Sometimes notices from the IRS …

With Christmas now over, signatures for a Wal-Mart referendum submitted yesterday, and a New Year on the horizon, there’s no time like now to think about our future. Guest Commentary by Jeff Powell It had been a bad few months for Jacob.  He was laid off from his job a few months back and his savings were dwindling fast. Christmas …

Guest Column by RYAN PURDY On a stormy Saturday, Councilmember Carl DeMaio held a Town Hall to discuss his plan to balance the city’s budget and reform the pension system in front of a standing room only crowd at the North Clairemont Library. DeMaio touts his Roadmap to Recovery as a comprehensive five year financial recovery plan that will restructure …

The following appeared in The Washington Times yesterday… Guest Commentary by Janette Littler and Bob Schuman Callidus Consulting Group Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi uttered powerful words upon becoming speaker of the House: “I accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship, and look forward to working with you on behalf of the American people.” What happened to that …

Guest Commentary by Randy Lenac, President, Save Our Rural Economy Save Our Rural Economy (S.O.R.E.) and many other key stakeholders in the County have been working to try and convince the Supervisors to scrap this bad plan and send staff back to the drawing boards to make it more fair and equitable for rural property owners and our rural economy.  …

Guest Commentary by Rhonda Deniston Listen, I am a registered Republican. I have always voted party line, but since the conception of the Tea Party I have voted for principles over parties. So, this is what has happened.  Barack Hussein Obama won the Presidency and quickly demonstrated that he was nothing more than another broken promise.  In a way, President …

Guest Commentary by Rick Amato U.S. military imprisons warriors for battlefield errors As President Obama took to the airwaves Tuesday evening to announce the end of the combat mission in Iraq, he paid tribute to the men and women who served there, were killed or wounded there, and to their families for the sacrifices they made. But there was one …