By Carey Blakely | The Coast News Group

ENCINITAS — A recent article in The New York Times titled “The Pleasure and Pain of Being California, the World’s 5th-Largest Economy” examined the pros and cons that the state’s economic success has doled out to residents. On one hand, California’s economy is booming with $6 billion sitting in its treasury coffers a mere seven years after being $27 billion in the red. However, as Times reporter Thomas Fuller writes, “it is hard to overlook the pain that prosperity has brought: traffic, property prices, homelessness.”

Commentary By Lois Sunrich and Bob Kent | The Coast News Group

Imagine an affordable housing community filled with our very own hardworking residents here in Encinitas. Start with a few young people who serve coffee downtown every morning while helping those businesses thrive, now include some of our preschool teachers, maybe one who works with your neighbor’s kids.  Let’s also add a few of our artists who are enriching our lives throughout Encinitas, while at the same time helping the arts become an unexpected financial engine.