Our strategy for protecting the coastline needs reframing. We are defacing and armoring bluffs to protect the tracks. We are putting wider berms in lagoons to increase traffic on the
MoreNovember 2021
Monday, October 4th was a day of striking dissonance. Ardem Patapoutian, PhD, a Del Mar resident and Scripps Research Professor, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology. His recognition
MoreDear Mayor and Members of the Del Mar City Council, Please reconsider your rejection of Councilmember Worden’s recent COVID protection proposal. I’m convinced that a vaccine mandate would protect
MoreOn October 7, 2021 The Winston School filed a lawsuit against the City of Del Mar in the San Diego Superior Court, seeking declaratory relief, contending that Del Mar breached
MoreMany high school students who are also frequent beach-goers are all too familiar with environmental pollution, such as the tar balls from a recent Orange County oil spill currently washing
MoreDear Mr. LaCava and Mayor Gloria: On October 16, 2021 there was another serious accident on Del Mar Heights Rd. west of I-5 (DMHR). This follows the fatal accident which
MoreWith significant and costly new State requirements coming into play, including mandatory diversion of food and other organic waste, and with the City’s 10-year contract with Waste Management for solid
MoreThe St. Peter’s Thrift Stop is grandly reopening into a generous renovated space filled with finds of all kinds of quality goods, gently used, at a nice price. Valerie Rieger
MoreDear Sandpiper, I write to explain why I asked publicly at the October 18 council meeting that an item be placed on a future council agenda to discuss the
MoreJoseph Smith, AICP has announced that he is leaving his position as Planning and Community Development Director effective January 2022. Smith indicates in his resignation letter that he plans to
MoreIt’s time to take an “art walk,” a real one, along Camino Del Mar, from 9th to 15th Street and west to Stratford, to view five new sculptures now in
MoreI served on the Design Review Board for 6 years (2002-2008), and I soon recognized the common developer gambit of proposing a project twice as big as necessary and then
MoreThe state of California recently enacted several laws to address the statewide housing crisis. The Governor states that “local governments will need to plan for the creation of more than
MoreStep into Bohemian Alchemist, a newly opened coffee and tea house, to enjoy “unusual and evocative flavors including ingredients like yaupon, a native American plant similar to tea but with
MoreThe Staff Report for the October 26th Finance Committee meeting provided some good news on the preliminary results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021. Revenues totaled $17.2 million
MoreLet’s start with this alert: “Anyone who believes they have seen a wolf in California can report their sighting to California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW)”-californiawolfsightings@wildlife.ca.gov. The CDFW’s call
MoreOn February 7, 1990, the American Trader, an oil tanker spilled 416,598 gallons of crude oil off the coast of Huntington Beach. Thirty-one years later, on October 2, 2021, a
Morewe are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond. In this month of Thanksgiving, these words from Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “Paul
MoreThis Thanksgiving, Find a Path to Peace DMCC’s Health and Wellness Premiere Speaker Series wants to give you some tools to help you and your loved ones this Thanksgiving. On
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