North Coast Current

Editorial: Twitter, story comments cut in favor of letters to the editor

North Coast Current • January 3, 2023

The North Coast Current and OsideNews encourage readers to submit traditional letters to the editor and commentaries as the combined news site shifts away from Twitter on social media and real-time comments on stories.

Point of View: All the news that’s fit to copy and paste

Roman S. Koenig • December 14, 2022

Encinitas has an odd reputation for being a home base of questionable news websites. Since 2021, we have a third — and it’s troublesome enough that the city of Encinitas has put a disclaimer about it in the footer of its own website.

Point of View: What does it mean for a reporter to take a ‘hit’ for the team?

Roman S. Koenig • November 7, 2022

A threat against a journalist for attempting to take the temperature of local politics warrants exposure and response.

Commentary: Leucadia faces the wrongs of ‘by-right’

Nicola Ranson • August 12, 2021

Ask the Encinitas City Council to stand up for Leucadia, local laws and its own Planning Commission, rather than cave in to pressures from the building industry. The alternative gives developers a carte blanche to flout the regulations that have evolved to keep our backyard attractive for generations to come.

EDITORIAL: Encinitas protests run against our better nature

North Coast Current • April 20, 2020

During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, a Cardiff church opened its doors to the leadership and expertise of the time to treat the ill of its community. A century later, the measures in place during today’s viral crisis are designed to help prevent the use of our churches for such a purpose again.

EDITORIAL: Which Current are you reading? Encinitas site stirs election season confusion

North Coast Current • February 9, 2020

Are you reading the North Coast Current or Encinitas Current? Look carefully. Not just at the nameplate, but at the web address. If you thought you were reading one and not the other, beware. It might be by design in this era of murky news outlets, leading to purposeful confusion stoked by political parties, bureaucracies, candidates and special interests.

EDITORIAL: Cardiff’s kids are all right, but what about the adults?

North Coast Current • January 4, 2020

In an ongoing dispute over the status of a park in the construction zone of Cardiff Elementary School, vile posters and banners chastising a local woman for her supposed “hatred of children” have appeared. Cut the immaturity. Be a good example for the children of Cardiff.