On September 26 of this year, twelve neighborhood organizations will hold a convention sponsored by the San Diego Organizing Project at the Barrio Youth Station, 2175 Newton Avenue in San Diego. For the last few …
Thursday, August 27
Representatives of the Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation recently talked with Ocean Beach activist Jackie Sanders about how that community would greet proposals for a KFC drive-thru. “I hope people like their chicken well done,” Sanders …
Thursday, August 20
The patrons heading into the Spirit club shortly before nine on a recent Saturday night might have thought it peculiar that a large, paint-splattered wooden stepladder would be propped up against the roof just to …
About five months ago I heeded years of pleadings from my mother and removed from her garage the baseball cards I had collected as a child. The cards, about 2000 of them, dated back to …
Thursday, August 13
Our plane taxis out onto the runway and comes to a halt, facing west down the long asphalt ramp of Lindbergh Field. Mike in hand, the pilot, Carlos Richardson, contacts the control tower for clearance. …
The January, 1968 opening of the In Between, a youth-counseling center originally sponsored by the Point Loma Methodist Church, didn’t help matters much; it seemed to attract as many troublemakers as it did those in search of help.
Thursday, August 6
The arson suspect was nineteen years old and had short black hair, brown-yellow eyes, and a wide, plump face. He was sitting in the corner stall of the visiting room of the Imperial County jail …