Articles by Mary York

SUMMER STEPHAN – INCUMBANT

Describe the role of the District Attorney.

“The primary responsibility is actually in the code and the statutes. You’re the people’s prosecutor. It means you collaborate with the nine police chiefs and sheriffs with the primary goal is making sure the community is save. You protect victims and protect the rights of the accused.”

“We’re selling pizza by the slice down the block,” a young boy says to passersby on the crowded main street of downtown El Cajon as the aroma of sizzling food wafts overhead. Wrapped up in May Gray, the chilly Saturday afternoon hosts young and old alike at the America on Main Street celebration on May 19.

On one end of Main Street, food carts lined the sidewalks and a large children’s slide worms its way up the skyline. The drifting current of the crowd led past community booths, music stages and tabling political candidates.

The bottom-line is that 10,000 new housing units is no small matter.

Debate about the newly considered general plan amendment bundles has covered a wide variety of concerns, from the legitimacy of bundling general plan amendments to the safety of residents who might move into the proposed developments.

Questions abound.

The three bundles would include seven projects and roughly 10,000 units across north and south county. Should such large changes be made to the general plan in one year?

My mom was the kind of mother who would buy extra bread at the store so we could feed the ducks on the way home. She was the kind of woman who brought us to the library every week to pick up dozens of books that would fill hours of our imaginations’ wandering at home. She was the kind of woman who would take my six siblings and me to the beach every day of the summer because she knew sand was good for our souls and sunshine made us sleepy enough to go to bed early – loving and clever, my mom.

My mom was the kind of mother who brought us to the polls with her.