| By: Readers of the North County Times and The Californian
As long as we are promoting pipe dreams how about building a stadium and buying the Chargers. The first sign was installed in 1990; the last in 2008. Golden Triangle? I don't think so. Bermuda Triangle, maybe.Robert RossMurrietaWhy is the thought confusing?A perplexed, yet amused Roy A. Di Vittorio wrote in his Feb. 28 letter that he thought it was hypocrisy for Republican, Christian conservatives who claim to be pro-life when it comes to abortion yet favor the death penalty. I am a Catholic (Christian) who opposes capital punishment and the killing of the unborn. Yet, I find it difficult to understand how someone could want to save the lives of adult, convicted murders and not want to save the lives of the millions of innocent unborn children.While perplexing, it is not in the least amusing.
Dawgs here, brought football weather
There's a small scar at his lower back from the arthroscopic surgery he had 11 months ago, a reminder of the painful bulging disk that undermined his performance for the past two seasons and part of 2005, since the first in a couple of violent collisions with walls. But Kotsay, who I've known since the Marlins drafted him out of Cal State Fullerton in 1996, told me he really feels good, finally. Surgery repaired the disk, and he's maintaining a regimen of core-strengthening exercises and stretching designed to keep everything strong in his lower back. We haven't played a Grapefruit League game yet, and a lot can happen between now and March 30 at Washington, D.C. None of us are naïve enough to believe that Kotsay is in the clear and doesn't have anything to worry about.
Development transforms San Pablo eyesore
Maybe you can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. A couple of years ago, the 7-acre parcel located along an industrial stretch of Giant Road in east San Pablo was an abandoned eyesore. It had seen heavy use during its 60-year history - first as a railroad spur where cargo was transferred from trains to trucks, then as a truck-washing business and storage yard. Its soil contaminated with arsenic, lead and other heavy metals, it eventually became an illegal dumping site and a playground for vandals. No more. The eyesore - cleaned of its contaminants and cleared of decades of debris - has been transformed. In its place stands a cluster of landscaped, three- and four-story buildings, painted in warm earth tones: 160 units of housing, more than half of which has been reserved for those in the low- and moderate-income brackets.
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