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  • The abolishment of local control and single family housing in the name of equity

    Updated Oct 1, 2021

    Julie Reeder Publisher When our founding fathers dreamed of creating a country with freedoms and opportunity, a primary freedom was that anyone could own property regardless of their status in life. They had come from a history of feudal societies where kings owned the land. Portions of the king’s land were managed by a noble class who rented out smaller portions to the peasants, who worked the land and paid them in produce and military service. The nobles, in turn, paid the king. People coming to the U.S. from all over the w... Full story

  • Response to JT, Sept 23rd

    Updated Oct 1, 2021

    Typical Liberal who misses the point and then deflects, turns & twists the facts. Of course you've got the election in the bag, you've been stealing our State elections for decades. Nobody said the homeless problem was Newsome's fault, better re-read the opinion I wrote. The MISSED point was they are living on beach front property while the residents get to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in property taxes! Residents get to live with the crime, drugs, and stench which is now their ocean view. I say ship them to Malibu.... Full story

  • Dear Temecula City Council

    Updated Sep 23, 2021

    Temecula City Councilmember Zak Schwank owes an apology to the Community of Fallbrook, California. During the Aug. 24 meeting, Councilmember Schwank made a lame attempt to condemn a recent (alleged) incident of racism at Temecula Valley High School. He resurrected and regurgitated an unfortunate statistic concerning a notorious white supremacist who once resided in Fallbrook. (www.villagenews.com/story/2020/11/12/news/tom-metzger-white-supremacist-who-lived-in-fallbrook-for-4-decades-dies-at-82/64132.html) Councilmember... Full story

  • Real Estate Round-Up: X is for X-it

    Kim Murphy, Murphy & Murphy Southern California Realty|Updated Sep 23, 2021

    Never in our 25 years selling real estate have we experienced more homeowners who are selling and leaving California. Easily 8 out of every 10 of the sellers we work with are leaving California to find more affordable housing, lower taxes, and a different political culture. Retirees are leaving California. They want to stretch their retirement funds out as far as possible, so giving up great weather in exchange for a lower cost of living and lower taxes, are worth the move.... Full story

  • Vaccine mandates, what to do?

    Updated Sep 23, 2021

    Things I just learned today: Israel and Great Britain, the two countries with the largest populations of vaccinated people, just experienced their largest new-case infections of Covid-19. FDA advisory panel website rejects wide spread Pfizer booster shots. A vaccinated person can and is often the offender as a superpreader. Meaning, the vaccinated person can show no symptoms and be spreading the virus at the same time. DAAH! There is other data out there which supports the rest of this opinion, if you do your research. It all... Full story

  • Re: 'The Tom McGuinness Story' [Village News, 9/9/21]

    Updated Sep 23, 2021

    I just today received our copy of the 9/9/21 edition of the Fallbrook Village News and I wanted to commend you for bringing to your readers the reminder of both your feelings of the personal loss of Tom McGuinness as well as the tragic loss of the those thousands of innocent people that lost their lives that day during and after the attack on the World Trade Center Towers. Your tribute encapsulates very succinctly and accurately the significance of remembering what “911” is all about and it hit home personally for me and my... Full story

  • Obama's role in the fall of Afghanistan

    Updated Sep 23, 2021

    Everyone blames poor Joe for the disaster in Afghanistan. Actually it was a success, depending on which party you align with. No one has mentioned that this has Obama’s fingerprints all over it. Let’s get in the time machine and take a look. Barry was “elected” with lots of Muslim brotherhood money, he told us he was a Muslim. He sent a new drone to Iran, landed carefully and refused to hit the self-destruct button. He gave back four top terrorist leaders for one known American Army traitor. Then he had happy talks in the... Full story

  • Re: 'Shame on You...' [Village News, Benson Letter, 9/16/2021]

    Updated Sep 23, 2021

    I want to thank the author of the subject letter for letting us know that there is one intolerant Liberal in Fallbrook. We Liberals were dismayed to learn that one of our own thought it might be necessary to cheat, when the rest of us knew that our Governor had the vote in the bag. Of course, before the vote, the mainstream media tried to make it look like it was pitched battle, but it turned out to be more like a walk in the park. You can’t blame the homeless problem on our Governor, primarily because it’s not his pro... Full story

  • Funding for our local firefighters

    Updated Sep 23, 2021

    Assemblymember Marie Waldron AD-75 Many can remember recent San Diego wildfire disasters, including the Cedar, Witch, Rice, Cocos, Guejito and Lilac fires which devastated so much of this region. North County Fire Protection District, Valley Center Fire Protection District, and the Rincon Fire Department all serve communities with designated Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones. There is a clear need to support our rural fire agencies. This year, in light of the state’s $38 billion budget surplus, I made three funding r... Full story

  • Kicking It during moose hunting season

    Updated Sep 23, 2021

    Elizabeth Youngman-Westphal Special to The Village News It is moose season in the boreal forest around McGrath, Alaska. The first day of September marks the opening day of the hunt. For 30 days, hunters fly in and out of this wee village in north central Alaska stalking the woods for this gigantic herbivore. But, in order to bag one of these antlered giants, each hunter must individually fly into the village of McGrath, show up in person at the Alaska Fish & Game desk carrying their picture I.D. in time to procure one of an u... Full story

  • Tour our trails

    Updated Sep 23, 2021

    Supervisor Jim Desmond 5th District I’m a huge supporter of activities that promote the health and wellbeing of residents in North County. We are incredibly lucky to live in such a beautiful County that has a wide array of outdoor activities, including hiking. The County of San Diego Department of Parks and Recreation manages hundreds of miles of trails in over 130 parks and preserves across San Diego. If you’re looking for somewhere to go, the San Elijo Lagoon is a great place to start. It’s an easy trail with a natur... Full story

  • Old Glory

    Updated Sep 16, 2021

    Did you know the flag came about on June 14, 1777, when Congress passed the first of three major flag acts? Or that over 200 years ago, the Second Continental Congress officially made the Stars and Stripes the symbol of America? Since 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14, Americans have commemorated the adoption of the Stars and Stripes in many ways, including the displaying of our flag in the front of our homes. There are many items on which we, as... Full story

  • Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco stands up to protect Riverside County residents' liberties and freedom

    Updated Sep 16, 2021

    Julie Reeder Publisher This week neighboring Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco made a statement that he is refusing to enforce the forced vaccine mandates from President Joe Biden in a podcast, RSO Roundup. "As your sheriff, I have an obligation to guard your liberty and freedom," Bianco said, adding that the government has no ability and no authority to mandate a citizen’s health choices. “I will not enforce the vaccine mandate on Sheriff’s Department employees,” Bianco said in the podcast. “The information I have abou... Full story

  • Never forget

    Updated Sep 16, 2021

    Supervisor Jim Desmond 5th District This past weekend, I participated in two 9/11 Memorial events, both of which honored the brave men and women who died on that horrific day. It was not lost on me that both events took place in Oceanside, a city whose fabric and culture are built by our military. On the morning of 9/11, I sat numb, and stared, like all Americans, not yet comprehending the impact this would have on all our lives. I reflected on my time in the Navy, and how our brave military personnel must be feeling the... Full story

  • Shame on you, you should know better

    Updated Sep 16, 2021

    Since I came to Fallbrook awhile back to care for family members, I have encountered so many nice people and a few not so nice. Last Saturday, 9-11 of all days with our 20th anniversary of being attacked on our own soil and honoring those that lost their lives, I was traveling on Fallbrook Street headed to Stage Coach when I saw a friend of mine stopped on the side of the road talking with another person and it did not seem very friendly. So when I got home I called her. Here is how her story went. My friend had spotted an... Full story

  • Biden has a choice to make

    Updated Sep 16, 2021

    Does he want to establish his legacy as a president who fought for voting rights, or not? In order to be remembered as a president who fought for voting rights, Biden must do more than ask the Senate to pass voting rights legislation. He knows as well as we do that bills like the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act won’t make it through the Senate unless we abolish the filibuster. Biden must publicly and unequivocally support abolishing the filibuster to clear the way for these crucial r... Full story

  • California lawmakers waste water

    Updated Sep 16, 2021

    Here we go again. We are being told California water supplies are at risk and we need to start using less water under threat of more mandatory water use restrictions. In 2019, we had one of the wettest years on record. At the end of the 2019 water year, major water storage reservoirs in California were at 125% of average capacity. That was just two years ago. In 2019, California had enough rainfall and snow pack to satisfy several years of water supply demands if we had dams and reservoirs of sufficient capacity to capture... Full story

  • Restoring Tribal Lands

    Updated Sep 16, 2021

    Assemblymember Marie Waldron SD-75 Historically, the relationship between federal and state governments and Native Americans has been fraught with violence, mistreatment and neglect. In 1887, the General Allotment Act broke up reservation lands and resulted in the uncompensated loss of 90 million acres nationwide. Taking steps toward restoring tribal lands through fee-to-trust transfers is one way to correct past injustices, restore tribal sovereignty, self-determination and economic independence. I have joined Senator Ben... Full story

  • Boerner Horvath's bill to restore fairness to UC admissions passes Senate

    Updated Sep 8, 2021

    SACRAMENTO – AB 1215, Assemblymember Tasha Boerner Horvath’s bill, which responds to incidents of bought-and-paid-for acceptances by installing a strict firewall between admissions and philanthropy staff, passed the Senate on a 38 – 0 bipartisan vote, Sept. 2. The bill also requires the verification of an applicant’s participation in a sport before and after their arrival on campus – a direct response to some of the more extreme tactics used by wealthy parents to jump the line in UC admissions. “These changes will help r... Full story

  • We need to demand accountability

    Updated Sep 8, 2021

    The Biden administration has brought shame on the United States of America. An impeachment of Joe Biden alone would not be enough, it should be the whole crew, Biden, Harris, Blinken, Milley and Austin. I might add Pelosi, Schumer, the squad and I'm sure many others in the swamp, including the RINOS (Republicans in name only), Romney (whom I am distressed to say I voted for), Murkowski, Cheney and Collins. So many need to be held accountable. I pray they will. The Afghan debacle, leaving Americans and Afghan allies and... Full story

  • Power safety power shut offs

    Updated Sep 8, 2021

    Supervisor Jim Desmond 5th District Power safety power shut offs can wreak havoc on the backcountry, especially on evacuation routes. As we head into fire season, many people will have their power shutoff due to high winds and fire danger. Back in March, Supervisor Joel Anderson and I presented a Board Letter after hearing about problems associated with PSPS events. This item passed with unanimous support and directed the chief administrative officer to identify gaps in Public Safety Power Shutdown mitigation and... Full story

  • Real Estate Round-Up: W is for warranty

    Kim Murphy, Murphy & Murphy Southern California Realty|Updated Sep 8, 2021

    Wouldn’t it be great if there was a warranty on everything in life? I for one, would love a warranty on health, or relationships. I suppose one could say that generally we all have a warranty on health. The warranty just runs out at different times for every individual. The warranty on health could be deemed to be invalid if an individual intentionally does things to undermine their health. A warranty on relationships would be awesome if it meant that a service could be p... Full story

  • A train wreck

    Updated Sep 8, 2021

    Assemblymember Marie Waldron SD-75 Reality is setting in for the high-speed rail project. Cost overruns, construction delays and false promises may have finally doomed the project. In 2008, voters passed Prop. 1A, a $9.5 billion bond measure to help finance high-speed rail. Promises included keeping costs under $40 billion, the state’s maximum investment would be 30%, funding from federal, private and local sources would pay the rest. Additional taxpayer subsidies were prohibited, and construction could not begin until all r... Full story

  • Newsom is anti-Second Amendment

    Updated Sep 8, 2021

    San Diego County Gun Owners, a political action committee promoting Second Amendment rights, is not endorsing a candidate in the recall election, but we are recommending a “yes” vote for removing Gov. Newsom. Don’t argue over your favorite replacement candidate. Instead, the best way to support your candidate is to encourage more people to vote to recall Newsom. Your second vote will count only if a majority votes “yes” on the first question. Newsom has been the most anti-Second Amendment governor the state has ever endu... Full story

  • Shoes: comfort vs looks

    Elizabeth Youngman-Westlphal|Updated Sep 8, 2021

    Recently my husband asked me if my new pink lace ballet slippers were “comfortable?” Blink. Blink. “Pardon me?” I replied. As you might imagine, I am still laughing myself into hiccups. Was there ever a pair of pretty lady’s shoes designed for comfort? Certainly, none I ever bought. Actually, thinking back, I forgot. There were two times. The first time I purchased sensible footwear was when I moved from California to work in New Jersey. Just days before a record snowfall in January 1995, I bought a pair of black-lac... Full story

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