The impulse-driven Donald Trump said he would love to change libel laws in such a way that he could never get sued, but could sue any of his detractors. Of course, that was a pipe dream forwarded by a man with very little intellectual horsepower, and absolutely no discipline or substantive f…

There was a thought-provoking juxtaposition on facing pages of the March 8 edition of the Coronado Eagle; a commentary on page 8 in which CUSD Trustee Antrim quite properly sounded the alarm, on International Women’s Day, about the mental health crisis among teenage girls; and on page 9 a le…

It was only a matter of time before those who find it difficult, if not impossible to say anything positive about Mayor Richard Bailey complained about his televised comments regarding a solution to homelessness. The usual writers and voices finding fault but offering no good solutions are e…

In my capacity with Coronado Livery, yours truly recently transported an uber-nice “seasoned-citizen” couple from the Navy Lodge to Lindbergh Field. They were going home to Oklahoma. The gentleman was, er, is a retired United States Air Force “full-bird” Colonel who during the Vietnam War ha…

I was pleasantly surprised to read the reference to my commentary in Joy Kerkhoff’s “A Reader Responds (3/8/23).” Hey, somebody actually read my piece! I was even more pleased when I saw that Mr. Kelly (the author of “Getting Even With Society”) had taken the time to address my comments.

Mayor Richard Bailey recently appeared on the Tucker Carlson show to discuss homelessness. In bold banners during the interview, Fox touted the mayor’s “zero tolerance policy” on homeless encampments as playing a major role in completely eliminating the problem in Coronado. But here’s the ru…

On the heels of the spectacular weekend collapse of the twentieth largest bank in America, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a relatively small player in the world of Wall Street houses, but a nonetheless incredibly important lender to the tech, and especially the start-up tech, sector, the governm…

I was interested to read in last week’s Eagle & Journal the letter from Brad Willis about the tribute/statue to Sybil Stockdale and the League of Wives. I was a great admirer of Sybil and honored to speak at her memorial tribute held in Spreckels Park.

A common refrain among tax-and-spend liberals is that businesses and affluent Americans should pay their fare share of taxes which implies that they are not. That’s rich, no pun intended, because as liberal leaders well know, the top 1% of income earners already pay over 42% of the nation’s …

Former South Carolina governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott (R,S.C.) and entrepreneur and writer, Vivek Ramaswamy have declared their intentions to seek the Republican nomination to run for president next year. Florida’s popular governor, Ron DeSanti…

Coronado High School (CHS) class of 1973 will celebrate its 50th reunion on Saturday evening, July 1, 2023 at the Coronado Yacht Club. The class of 1973 will also be honored at the CHS graduation ceremony, Thursday, June 15.

First of all, I shall forever (...a word I tend to avoid) be thankful for living in a town like Coronado.

Let me begin by quoting a fellow Californian, 18 year old Chloe Cole, in her complaint against Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan & Kaiser Foundation Hospitals precisely: “My teenage life has been the culmination of excruciating pain, regret, and most importantly inj…

It started here in Coronado in 1967 at a home on A Avenue. A small group of military spouses gathered around a living room table. Their husbands were prisoners of war in Hanoi, and they felt not enough was being done to guarantee their humane treatment or gain their freedom.

I would like to thank the anonymous “neighbor” who kindly left a note with a beautiful replacement flag for my own fading one. I was trying to ‘stretch’ its time until a new one could greet my nephew (Marine Colonel and family) being transferred here in July. In fact, I plan to purchase a fl…

The past couple of weeks have been revelatory where Fox News is concerned. The discovery process in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit has forced Fox owner, Rupert Murdoch, to speak about the network under oath for the first time, formally pulling back the curtain on what has been a thirty-…

“We Are On Each Others’ Team” - Lorde

Salad bar? Yes. I am with you Vicki. Vons, your additions and etc. were great, but you had so much space for drinks and flowers, you could have found space for a salad bar. That would have been a welcomed addition for us all.

Yours truly is enough of a geezer to recall getting off from grade school on Lincoln’s birthday and  Washington’s birthday on the actual days, not the following Mondays. There was no such thing as Presidents’ Day, Cesar Chavez Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, or Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Why…

Today, it was either right about Jimmy Carter a magnificent human being with a generous spirit, or the craven and greedy characters at Fox News who chose to lie about the 2020 election results in order to hold viewers and keep ratings and revenue from their smaller competitors, NewsMax and O…

How are there no other salad bars in Coronado besides Sharp Hospital? Boney’s, Smarties, Vons; could one of you please make a salad bar? Anyone, if you agree, please write in. No disrespect to The Mindful Cafe, please go there if you never have, but I really feel a grocery store salad bar wo…

I did a double-take while reading this week’s commentary by J.F. Kelly Jr. About halfway through “Getting Even With Society” is a sentence that reads “This (change in culture) has been facilitated by the breakdown of the family unit and an alarming decrease in parenting skills, especially in…

President Joe Biden’s secretly-planned visit to Kyiv was a dramatic and welcome show of support for the embattled Ukrainians. It was also a gutsy show of strength and endurance by our aging president whose sagging approval ratings will undoubtedly be bolstered by having made the arduous and …

I’m sure we all recall how Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin suffered that horrific on-field heart attack earlier this season on live television during Monday Night Football, and whose rather remarkable recovery has been nothing short of miraculous, to the point where his doctors ha…

In his letter in the Coronado Eagle & Journal last week, Mr. Flick conflated environmental education, community engagement, distraction by social agendas, school governance, “commitment to meaningful environmental action,” use of refillable water bottles, terrible CASSP scores, Emerald K…

Who is this investor/developer working to do bad things to the Cays? Google-search Keith Mishkin: Phoenix, Arizona realtor who “specializes in luxury properties.” Not here he doesn’t.

Let’s just begin to frame the issue of gun safety with the known facts:

There have been, as of this writing, 68 mass shootings this year and the year is young. It’s a safe bet that the record for mass shootings will be set this year and that the United States will once again lead the world in that category. What will we do about it? Well, the usual things, of co…

In the December 2, 2021 Eagle&Journal, retired educational researcher, Robert Grobe, Ph.D., wrote a cautionary letter regarding one of the new educational programs that is currently sweeping much of the country and which, as a billion dollar industry, is also under way in Coronado Unifie…

According to music superstar and activist, Bono, “America is the greatest idea that the world has ever had. It just doesn’t exist yet.”

By now the Coronado community has become aware of the term “educational equity” since it is pervasive in academic circles. CUSD has recently spent thousands of taxpayer dollars in pursuit of “equitable outcomes” (including $12k last month to send CUSD educators to a 2-day San Diego County Of…

The Superintendent says Emerald Keepers is a community partner and as such, CUSD in partnership, adopted a policy that no water is to be sold on campus in a plastic bottle.

In the 1980’s it was a cause célèbre that environmental groups regularly fought, and sometimes successfully killed, new residential development throughout California. The common argument was saving the Stephens Kangaroo Rat, etc. Residential developers were forced to do environmental impact …

Early last month when the new year was fresh, as yours truly stood waiting for the elevator in the lobby at Coronado Physicians Medical Center, a woman wearing a mask walked up and waited with me, so I asked the masked lassie, “Going up?” Well, duh, Eddie-boy.  There was nowhere to go but up…

At the January school board meeting, a committee was established and charged with looking at the high school’s 4x4 calendar, soliciting input from all stakeholders (teachers, students, parents, community members), evaluating its effectiveness after a year and a half of implementation, and su…

President Joe Biden used the State of the Union address, as most of his predecessors have, to recite his accomplishments. It is usually left to the opposition party to address the failures and shortcomings. That opportunity fell to the newly-elected governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sande…

If the road usage tax is based on milage why should I pay SANDAG when I drive to LA or Orange County or Las Vegas even which is another state. In those cases I would not be using San Diego County road infrastructure.

Recently CMS sixth graders attended the annual San Diego County Outdoor Education program at Camp Cuyamaca. Our students were immersed in the study of nature, science and conservation. They hiked the local trails and experienced meaningful hands-on learning. The overnight camp experience in …

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”

The January 19 School Board Meeting highlighted the political nature of spending money on a social agenda rather than an academic one. I expect the board to conduct due diligence especially with consent items. Instead, the Trustees along with most in attendance don’t know what the January 19…

Kudos to the Eagle’s Lauren Curtis for an excellent front-page article on the importance of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in our schools. Despite the cries from the grievance crowd that has fulminated against our school board meetings for the past two years, SEL is not some insidious plot.…

When recent winter storms re-revealed remains of the pair of parallel concrete 1920s-vintage «harborette” mini-piers butting out from the beach by the Hotel Del just north of The Rocks, I was transported back in time, back to when yours truly was a scrawny crumb-crunching Coronado schoolboy …

On January 19 and 20, 2023 twenty-five teachers and staff of Coronado Unified School District attended the San Diego Annual Equity Conference 2023, Equity is Love in Action, at the cost of $11,250. This does not include an unknown amount for the added expense of substitute teachers. These ex…

Welcome to the 101st year of the Coronado Flower Show! This year, we will celebrate Coronado’s longest running tradition on April 15-16, 2023. With the theme of “Hollywood in Bloom” as our guide, we will be rolling out the red carpet for horticulturists, designers, and floral enthusiasts ali…

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) won his long-sought role as House Speaker after 14 unsuccessful ballots by making significant concessions to fellow Republican House members in order to gain their support. One of these was a commitment to insist upon spending cuts in return for raising the debt…

“Man, I was hitting him with straight haymakers, dog.” Is that an MMA star being interviewed about their last bout? No, that’s a Memphis police officer bragging about beating Tyre Nichols.

Last week the Eagle & Journal kindly published my question for Coronado’s new Port Commissioner, Frank Urtasun: “Are you of a mind to fight for Coronado?”

Many, many moons ago during Operation Desert Storm (1991), while I watched the war unfold on the boob tube, seemingly in real time, I spied a United States Marine Corps officer being interviewed from the front lines by an embedded network news reporter. Curiously, I noticed the American-flag…

I am writing to thank Coronado-area residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season.

In January 2023 Emerald Keepers proposed the OZ mini-shuttle to the Coronado community through local news sources, social media, and the Emerald Keepers website. In brief, OZ is an on-demand mini-shuttle service offering free rides around the village in six-passenger electric vehicles. Mini-…