We ended with a quote from SmithKline's largest stockholder, Gavin Herbert, who expressed our own conclusions as he sat on his terrace at Richard Nixon's former summer White House. The orange trees. The feeling there is room for everybody. But all the things we like best are disappearing. Now, north and south Orange County are at each other's throats over El Toro and a new airport.
Migrant crime jousts with Anglo crime.
Unlike San Diego, Orange has built a toll road that unglues surface streets and freeways. It has become a county of palatial homes and poverty. We should be able to look at such neighbors and learn about San Diego's present, crucial crossroads. But we are doing everything we can to open it, and we may still have time to do it right.