Every Coronado resident is free to endorse candidates. So is John Duncan. But no one, especially the mayor, should blur the line between private opinion and City Hall’s authority. This election season, like in 2024, that line has been blurred several times. What’s at stake? Since spring 2026, a 3–2 majority of Council members Carrie […]
Laura Wilkinson Sinton
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Op-ed: No one Is coming to save us from our sewage crisis. It’s time to save ourselves. Vote YES on Measure B
For decades, sewage from the Tijuana River has poisoned San Diego’s coastline, closed beaches from the border to Coronado, sickened Navy SEALs training in our own country’s waters, and forced families from IB to the Coronado Shores, Cays, and Village, to stay out of the water, and even remain indoors on many beautiful SoCal days. Tijuana, […]
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Op-Ed: A modest ethics proposal
Let’s suppose in 10 years a future mayor of Coronado and two of the future council members (a majority) decide to secretly join forces with a private equity company, buy up three city blocks in the village, convert them to condos and change the law to allow both a zoning variance and daily rentals for […]
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Op-Ed: Why I am the best candidate for Coronado City Council by Laura Wilkinson Sinton
Editor’s note: The Coronado News has invited all City Council and mayoral candidates to submit a first-person article about their background, civic involvement and reason for running for office. We intend to run articles in the order they are received. It takes knowledge, expertise and political courage to tackle the issues before us. I possess […]
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Op-Ed: This is what a truly united community looks like
We found Carolyn Rogerson’s Op-Ed “Where are the Democrats in the Sewage Crisis?” to be divisive and uninformed. Our community is 100% united and in common cause to find the answers to this increasing threat to the community – the poisonous sewage closing our beaches and sickening our population. In recent years, this alarming influx […]