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Welcome back, pilots
Working across the street from the Palm Springs International Airport, getting a glimpse of airplanes coming and going is a perk – especially the Navy’s F-18s screaming past. In 2011, when Rep. Mary...
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Try our new poll question
Mydesert.com switched to new software for our daily poll question. Our hope is that this new format will work with all the browsers out there – Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc. And it has some nifty...
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Hurray for Mr. Bingo
It may be true everywhere, but Coachella Valley seems to love its dogs more than most communities. Our Sunday letter of the week was about a stray puppy found on the streets of Joshua Tree. The couple...
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Dorner’s last stand
Most people probably look at the conclusion of Tuesday’s dramatic shootout with accused cop killer Christopher Jordan Dorner in the San Bernardino Mountains with a sense of relief. If that was him in...
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One can only imagine
When I was younger, I regularly ran 10ks and half-marathons. I never did a marathon because I could never carve the recommended training time out of my schedule. But I remember dozens of moments of...
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Pressure cookers as WMDs?
It’s hard to believe that a pressure cooker can be described as a weapon of mass destruction. Guess is all depends on the ingredients. Dad has always been a proponent of pressure cookers. I never got...
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We have a Pulitzer winner
Back in the 1980s, in my first stint as an editorial page editor at the now-defunct Times-Advocate in Escondido, we had a tradition when the Pulitzer Prizes were announced in the spring. We’d see who...
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Sign cutters on the border
In researching for Sunday’s editorial on immigration reform, I came across an Associated Press story with a Campo dateline. I know Campo. It’s a small town in east San Diego County on the border. My...
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Soda pop tax
Monday is my day to scout editorial ideas to pitch to The Desert Sun editorial board on Tuesdays. I review the previous week’s worth of papers, scroll the Associated Press and other wires and check on...
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Bonfires vs. air quality
Growing up in San Diego, the beach was like a second home to me. I learned to swim the bay next to the Silver Strand. Before I could drive, my buddy and I would hitch a ride with my older brother and...
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