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Let’s Build an Even Bigger Jack in the Box in North Park
By Dorian Hargrove, Published Feb. 1, 2012
Christi Nail has spent thousands of dollars on double-pane windows to keep out the noise and wooden shutters to block out the headlights. She is thinking of building a concrete retaining wall to ward off runaway ...
Buyouts Didn’t Help U-T and Petco
By Don Bauder, Published Feb. 1, 2012
Go, Newt! In your donnybrook with Mitt, please keep informing the citizenry about the rapacity of private equity groups (essentially leveraged buyout firms). I’m neutral on the nomination but feel strongly about private equity groups: they’re ...
Gambling Addicts Aren't Necessarily Smoking Addicts
By Don Bauder, Published Jan. 25, 2012
In a gambling casino, you can lose your shirt — and worse, your health. That’s why several groups are working on California’s Indian casinos to go smoke-free. Many such casinos, particularly in San Diego County, have ...
Push Me, Pull You, Arrest Me at California State University Headquarters
By Joe Deegan, Published Jan. 25, 2012
"Mostly all lies” is how San Diego State University graduate student and teaching assistant Ashley Wardle characterizes statements two California State University officials made during ... More Comments (2)
Chinese, It’s the New Spanish
By Elizabeth Salaam, Published Jan. 18, 2012
Robert Dorsey is not Chinese, but he drives 25 miles from El Cajon to Point Loma every morning so his two daughters can learn to ... More Comments (2)
Even Lobbyists’ Loot May Not Rescue Redevelopment
By Don Bauder, Published Jan. 18, 2012
"The good news is the bad news — that the state is desperate for money,” says Richard Rider. If the state’s books were in good ... More Comments (18)
Sweetwater's Funds for Education
By Susan Luzzaro, Published Jan. 11, 2012
Last week, Sweetwater’s interim superintendent Ed Brand suspended the Funds for Education Committee, saying, “I can stop the grief right here.” This is the second ... More Comments (58)
Muddling Through — but Watch Europe
By Don Bauder, Published Jan. 11, 2012
The United States and San Diego economies should muddle through in 2012 — growing very slowly — unless an economic civil war of sorts erupts ... More Comments (19)
One Last Piece of Mail at Las Colinas
By Eva Knott, Published Jan. 4, 2012
Marion M. Lopez was picked up on a warrant sweep on February 23, 2011, and found herself in Las Colinas women’s detention facility in Santee. ... More Comments (2)
Snug and Smug at the Hotel Del
By Don Bauder, Published Jan. 4, 2012
Gary Aguirre heads a San Diego law firm that since February has specialized in representing whistle-blowers, those who blow the whistle on financial fraud — ... More Comments (22)
Woo-hoo! Chula Vista U!
By Susan Luzzaro, Published Dec. 28, 2011
Will Harvard or Notre Dame come to a South Bay university site as Sweetwater school district boardmember John McCann suggested in November? Will taxpayers vote ... More Comments (21)
Borderline Tours
By Dorian Hargrove, Published Dec. 21, 2011
Mike Harris drives his blue Ford Ranger pickup south on Hollister Street, through the Tijuana River Valley, toward the border. He stops the truck on ... More Post a comment
The Stock Market Roller Coaster
By Don Bauder, Published Dec. 21, 2011
The stock market is like Pavlov’s dogs. It starts to salivate at the thought of a juicy meal, long before it gets one. (About a ... More Comments (352)
Watch Your Step in City Heights
By Elizabeth Salaam, Published Dec. 14, 2011
Last Sunday, while jogging up Wightman Street through City Heights, I had to avoid five piles of dog crap, seven fecal smears, and one brown ... More Comments (18)
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