Opinion

In Richard Wormbrand’s autobiographical “Tortured for Christ,” he shares much of the following: Orphaned at an early age and raised in a totally non-religious home, Richard Wurmbrand, knowing poverty during WWI, became an atheist, bitter toward religion. He actually hated the “notions” of God and Christ.  And yet he seemed drawn toward churches and visited […]

The Reagan National Defense Forum (RNDF) is one of the most important national security dialogues of the year. “Everyone who is anyone” in the national security space is either an invited speaker or an in-person attendee. Given Coronado’s long association with the U.S. military, as well as today’s substantial military presence and number of residents […]

Imagine you’re in a classroom as a 12-year-old boy. Anxiously, you’re gripping the desk waiting for the 3 p.m. school bell to end the day. Your heart is rapidly beating when RING goes the bell and off you go running as fast as you can to get home to rip off the urine stained sheets your […]

Deliver results to San Diego County’s most pressing problems.  Change the county’s culture to serve more people and communities, better.   Over the last three years as the supervisor representing District 3, those are the things my office has been doing to create a more healthy, sustainable, equitable, inclusive, and liveable San Diego County. We’ve compiled […]

Our region is facing some of the most unprecedented challenges that demand our attention and it’s imperative that we confront them with compassion, action and unwavering resolve. San Diego County is at the crossroads of two pressing crises: homelessness and an environmental crisis, particularly from the sewage flowing from the Tijuana River Valley polluting our […]

The media has largely ignored the millions of Christians who have been persecuted, tortured and even killed for their faith.  The most recent highly publicized account was the 21 Coptic Christians kidnapped and beheaded on the beach in Libya in 2015 by Islamic State soldiers (jihadists). A main reason for the exposure was that it was […]

In late 2023 we proposed a simple, yet viable “Life Screen” to stop what we called the Coronado Bridge suicide machine in The Coronado News and the Times of San Diego. Our proposed Life Screen can be installed within one month’s time and for less than $45,000.   We concluded our 2023 article with this community challenge: “In a […]

2024 is an election year in the City of Coronado, and one thing is for sure – you are going to see the same names on the November ballot. Why?  Because there are structural problems in Coronado that keeps the old boys club alive and well here and discourages new talent from running for City Council. […]

San Diego is currently living a homeless humanitarian catastrophe of epic  proportions.   The time is now to consider deploying what we call the Sunbreak Ranch Emergency Parachute.   The tragic numbers are staggering. According to our own local government’s Regional Task Force On Homelessness, in the San Diego region there were over 4,751 new unsheltered homeless people in 2023.   […]

Dear Editor: I applaud your coverage of news in Coronado and especially the Cays Park Project. I met your reporter, Madeline Yang, at the Dec. 5 City Council meeting and was glad to see her taking notes. However, I believe the headline and the article in your Dec. 15 edition were misleading. I was initially […]