While Encinitas Senior Living’s corporate pattern is playing out well beyond North County San Diego borders, the problems residents describe are not abstract. They are structural. When senior living companies say that legal disputes, bankruptcies, closures, and complaints at different properties are unrelated, they are usually asking readers to focus narrowly — one building at a time, one issue at a time — rather than…
A story published April 26, 2025, in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, reported and written by Phil Barber, was about a senior facility 400 miles north of Encinitas. Swap out the vineyard views for coastal fog, and replace every mention of that facility with Encinitas Senior Living, 504 S. El Camino Real, and the piece starts to read less like regional news and more like…
The Trump-inspired Jan. 6 Capitol riot did not start in Washington. It started in places that look a lot like San Diego County—suburban streets, online message boards, small protest circles, group texts, and social-media feeds that steadily hardened into belief. When the crowd breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, San Diego did not watch from the sidelines. Residents here packed bags, booked flights,…
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, also known as the “Festival of Lights,” began Sunday night running through Monday, Dec. 22. News 8 sat down with Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort to hear exactly how this Jewish holiday came about. Hanukkah commemorates the re-dedication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after a small group called the Maccabees defeated the Greek Syrian army. During the battle, the Jews had…
Silvergate, silvershmate. Somewhere at the corner of Via De La Valle and Calzada Del Bosque — where the horses once snorted in the dawn fog and the rich came to escape the noise of the other rich — a new frontier is being staked out on 28 acres. The poles are white, the land is green, and the pitch is pure gold: Silvergate Rancho Santa…
Tucked inside Vallecitos Town Center at 1254 E. Mission Road in San Marcos, stands a small storefront with a big reputation. San Marcos Grooming, owned and operated by Maria Motta, has quickly become a favorite among local pet owners—not just because of its grooming services, but because of Maria herself. Maria is more than a certified dog groomer. Clients describe her as a “dog whisperer,”…
In San Diego County, which had a population of 2,076 Japanese-Americans in 1940, families were sent to Poston, 12 miles south of Parker, Ariz. Poston was one of 10 internment camps created during World War II after an executive order authorized the Secretary of War to designate specific areas as military zones and excluded certain people from living in them. President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order…
San Diego has a long memory for war and a short memory for dissent. That’s not an accident. This city supplied ships, pilots, technicians, and Marines for Vietnam the way Pittsburgh once supplied steel. The war was not somewhere else. It was here, in the barracks, the flight lines, the shipyards, the college campuses, and the neighborhoods that lived on deployment schedules. What we don’t…
San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez is a politician dressed in a badge, pretending to uphold the law while peddling fear and dodging accountability. On Tuesday, in a move as predictable as the sunrise, she declared herself above the will of the people she supposedly serves, all in the name of bending the knee to ICE—Trump’s personal deportation squad. San Diego County supervisors made their…
Daylight saving time: It’s backward time again when clocks step off one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. Don’t forget to do the right thing clockwise or you’ll be out of sync. Californians early Sunday will join most of the nation in the yearly ritual of switching their clocks an hour forwards and back on daylight saving time. Will they be allowed to…