Encinitas man gets State prison for spitting on officer
Eva Knott 10:44 a.m., May 18
Sounty County San Diego
Come out and play
Chad Deal parties with an insane lumbering monster.
Were it not for the photographic evidence, Figment could have been a hallucination. The annual Chicano Park festival is how American families everywhere would be spending their Sunday afternoons if Jello Biafra had been elected ...
Dept. of Homeland Security considers border entry fee
Money would make up for budget shortfall
A translation of a front-page headline on Baja’s daily El Mexicano on Tuesday, April 23, reads, "They Might Charge to Cross to the U.S.” beginning in 2014. The story was about the U.S. Department of ...
Chula Vistans discuss SANDAG’s rapid-transit plans
Cost, practicality, and bridge discussed
Chula Vista residents continue to seek alternatives to SANDAG’s plan to run a 21-mile rapid-transit bus line from the Otay border crossing down east Palomar Street and into downtown San Diego. At councilmember Pat Aguilar’s ...
San Ysidro soon to have transportation center?
Grand scale, hands-on, model-making meeting
Over 60 community members gathered at the San Ysidro Civic Center on Thursday, April 18, to let their voices be heard about the potential building of a world-class “intermodal transportation center” at the San Ysidro ...
Another Sweetwater board meeting mired in disagreement
Failure to elect oversight committee member
Sweetwater Union High School District board meetings often last five hours and are characterized by conflict. The April 9 meeting ended in a meltdown over the selection process used by the district to choose members ...
Digging for Pismo clams at San Diego Beaches
Bring pitchfork, bucket, and license
I’m not going to lie. The water is cold. It’s 12:51 p.m. on a Saturday and it’s low tide. I’m in ankle- to hip-deep water, digging for clams. The native Pismo clam, specifically. The first ...
Sweetwater board votes to cut occupational programs
Students vow to continue protest
On April 9, the majority of the Sweetwater Union High School District board (John McCann, Arlie Ricasa, and Jim Cartmill) voted to cut the district’s Regional Occupation Program/Career Technical Education and adult-school programs. Funding for ...
Latest plans for ill-fated L Street land deal
Who can say no to soccer?
During public comment at the March Sweetwater Union High School board meeting, Jacqueline King, a resident of Chula Vista who has worked in real estate development for 36 years, addressed the trustees regarding the district’s ...
Friendship Park to remain open at the Border
Cancel that shut-down, cancel the protest
The silent protest of the closing of Friendship Park scheduled for Saturday April 6 has been canceled because Friendship Park, at the monument in Border Field State Park, will be able to remain open on ...
Gun grab
This year’s run on guns
The empty shelves inside the Chula Vista Gun Store (in mid-February) make it hard to tell the place sells guns at all. Last December, the amplification of the gun-control debate sent buyers rushing to this ...
What the sequester means for the border
Mostly bad news
“April is the cruelest month…”, begins the first line of T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land,” perhaps more aptly retitled “The Wait Land” for the border region. This April, federal budgetary squabbles and sequestration cuts ...
More energy-efficiency home funding for Imperial Beach
About 90 homes improved since 2007
Ten homeowners in Imperial Beach will have a chance at energy-efficiency improvements, and six Habitat for Humanity homes will be completed with money from the now-folded redevelopment agencies that the state Department of Finance has ...
Border Patrol schedules closure of Friendship Park
Budget cuts to trigger April 7 closure
Friends of Friendship Park, a group with an interest in the unique spot at the southwestern corner of the U.S. where it meets Mexico, is planning to protest the closure of the park, scheduled for ...
Baja California economy suffers for lack of northern visitors
Border waits partly to blame
Baja California residents spend three times more money in the U.S. than do Americans visiting south of the border, according to Armando Rogelio Lara Valle, the director of Baja California's planning and development committee. According ...
