{"id":206368,"date":"2025-09-07T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206368\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:04:09","slug":"side-by-side-stories-show-how-local-politicians-have-changed-for-the-worse-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206368\/","title":{"rendered":"Side-by-side stories show how local politicians have changed for the worse \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cDeveloper proposals for Mission Bay Park rile critics\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/08\/31\/developers-want-hundreds-of-homes-on-a-chunk-of-mission-bay-park-the-mayor-wants-declared-surplus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aug. 31<\/a>) and \u201cA splurge 50 years ago made a San Diego icon\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/08\/29\/how-a-city-splurge-50-years-ago-a-fateful-flight-and-2-warring-visions-made-cowles-mountain-a-san-diego-icon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aug. 31<\/a>): The juxtaposition of last Sunday\u2019s front-page headlines was quite telling.<\/p>\n<p>Visionary city politicians of the 1970s protected land for posterity by preventing overdevelopment and creating scenic Mission Trails Park. Today\u2019s shortsighted, sellout city politicians are killing the golden goose under the ruse that affordable housing is the be-all\u00a0and the\u00a0end-all of life in San Diego. Do the\u00a0ends really justify any means whatsoever?<\/p>\n<p>The difference is the wisdom to recognize that giving away public-trust land and diminishing our quality of life forsakes the permanent greater good for the temporary benefit of a few developers and residents.<\/p>\n<p>We need to preserve what treasures we have, or else there will be nothing left worth preserving.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Todd Cloaninger, Tierrasanta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cDeveloper proposals for Mission Bay Park rile critics\u201d (Aug. 31) and \u201cA splurge 50 years ago made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-206368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115160328618919056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}