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The city has taken an aggressive approach not just with the homeless in Grape Day Park, but throughout the city — and is being praised by homeless advocates in the process.

Council will consider employment agreement that awards $280,000 salary, $20,000 in moving costs

Less than a week before Escondido is scheduled to transfer management of it’s public library to a private company, a city 140 miles to the north is doing the exact opposite by opting to end its contract with the same Maryland-based firm.

Dane White, son-in-law of Councilmember Morasco, looking to unseat Mayor McNamara

Escondido’s Reidy Creek Golf Course continues to lose money but it is unlikely major changes will be made until at least 2022 when a contract with the company that manages it expires, the city council was told this week.

Negotiations between Palomar Health and a developer to redevelop the old Palomar Hospital site as a mixed-use residential/retail complex on the east side of Escondido’s downtown area could be in the final stages.

Firmly believing plans being discussed in Escondido to privatize the library will amount to an evasion of civic responsibility, citizen groups are bracing for a major fight.

Escondido Police Chief Craig Carter, who is retiring at the end of December after a 29-year career and six years at the helm of the department, is leaving the city's police force in better shape, and with a stronger reputation, than it had only a decade earlier.

Escondido officials are hopeful the long-delayed Lake Wohlford Dam replacement project will begin next year, though it is woefully shy of being fully funded.

Sean McGlynn became top administrator in June