Santee City Council Approves Cable Ski Project

According to news reports, the Santee City Council approved the proposed building of a Cable Ski course on Lake 1 of the Santee Lakes during their Wednesday, October 28, meeting. There has been a great deal of controversy surrounding this project, but as of now it is a go. However, the Council will revisit the [...]

Letter from California State Assemblyman Joel Anderson

This is an e-letter from California State Assemblyman Joel Anderson. He and a majority of the members of the Assembly Appropriations Committee co-authored a bill that would require California to accept its own IOUs as payment for any obligations owed to the state by individuals or businesses. In other words, if it’s good enough for [...]

Don’t Shoot the Canvassers

Next year, 2010, will be the decennial census of the United States.  Every ten years, since 1790, the government has counted the population of this nation – as required by the Constitution.  In order to do this successfully, the Census Bureau has already begun laying the groundwork for the count.  Over the next few weeks [...]

Open Letter to San Diego County Supervisors Re: Las Colinas

Dear San Diego County Supervisors
 
I am writing to oppose the planned expansion of Las Colinas Women’s Detention Facility at its current location in Santee.  The County of San Diego is wasting an opportunity to develop a very valuable parcel of land as a tax-producing project.  In addition this expansion will encroach on several sensitive locations, including [...]

Let’s Get Those Signs Down!

As I warned, I am now going to start posting pictures of political signs that are still up, along with the location of the offending signs.  Most of them are on public property, so there shouldn’t be any problem for the candidates involved to stop and pull them down.  Oh, and just because your sign [...]

Post-Election Poster Update

As promised, here is an update on what I’ve found as far as election posters that have not yet been taken down.  From what I’ve seen, the offending signs are mostly for school board races.  The Urdahls have some on Carlton Hills Blvd. and Schreiber has some on Cuyamaca St.  There are also a few [...]

Political Clean-Up Time

It’s only a few days after the election – probably one of the most heavily-promoted of lateley – and I’m very pleased to see that many of the signs are already down.  Below are some Before-and-After pictures from a couple of the most posted locations around town.  I want to encourage all of the candidates, [...]

Election Day Coming – Be Sure to Vote

Anyone who doesn’t know we have an election coming has been spending way too much time in front of their Wii.  There are more than enough places to go for information to help you make your choice.  I just want to put my reminder in for you to get out on Tuesday and vote.  (And [...]

Las Colinas Debate

If you have been to any Chamber or city-sponsored event recently, you’ve probably seen the information booth about the possible expansion of Las Colinas, the women’s jail located here in Santee.  You probably also are aware of the opposition by the city, chamber, and ordinary citizens to this possible expansion.  Well, I decided that it [...]

Propositions 98 & 99

Recently I posted about some of the candidates for the 52nd Congressional District.  I had hoped to post on all of them, but wasn’t able to connect with the others.  So, since I can’t give all of them equal time, I am not going to give any thumbs up or down on any of them.  [...]