There should be no mystery about the county’s budget problems. In spite of having a monopoly, the county must still abide by basic economics and by that I mean, “Does the county provide a desired service at a fair price?” For example, I have a customer whose deck, after 50 years, finally needs to be…

Editor: Two points regarding how we view Idyllwild. 1) Re: “Candidates for Idyllwild Water vacancies,” question: “Are you for ‘no growth?’”  VS answers “No. If 15,000 people want to have resources to build, our board shouldn’t control growth.”  What? 15,000 people getting our scarce water? IWD should have a more responsible concept of growth for…

Editor: As the drought continues, Idyllwild will suffer increasingly severe water shortages. The many policies regarding water conservation are sound and should be continued: eliminating outdoor landscape watering, and low-water-use toilets, showers, appliances etc. But we need to address increasing our available supply. In any winter storm, most of the water drains out of our…