Don Bauder
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While attending the University of Wisconsin, Don Bauder held a number of posts at the campus newspaper, including editor in chief. He received a bachelor's degree in business (1959) and a master's in journalism (1961) and then spent four years in advertising and PR. In 1964, he joined the Chicago bureau of Business Week magazine as reporter/writer. In 1966, he got the job as bureau chief in Cleveland.
Don left Cleveland in 1973 to become financial editor and columnist for the San Diego Union. When the Union and Tribune merged in the early 1990s, he remained at that post; in '95, he was named senior columnist at the Union-Tribune. He retired from the U-T in March of 2003 and began writing his weekly column for the Reader in April of 2003. He started up his Reader blog -- Scam Diego -- in September of 2007.
In 1985-1986, Don wrote Captain Money and the Golden Girl (a book about a local Ponzi scheme), which stayed on the L.A. Times best-seller list for more than two months. He's been married for nearly 50 years and has two sons.
Recent Stories
Football First, Water Last
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
In his State of the City speech on January 13, Mayor Jerry Sanders devoted 434 words to the possibility of ...
National Football Liars
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010
It’s Big Lie season again. Super Lie. Specifically, Super Bowl Lie. It’s that giddy time of the year when the ...
Free Lunch for Banks
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010
Perhaps you are comforted believing that the U.S. government, Federal Reserve, and Wall Street are all working assiduously to provide ...
Up, But Not Way Up
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010
Last year, the San Diego economy did poorly, although it was picking up a bit in the final several months. ...
The Plaintiff Knew Nothing
Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009
‘If I am guilty of anything, it’s of being a good lawyer and advocating for the rights of the disabled,” ...
Fabiani Talks
Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009
The young son of a prominent government official boasted to his father that he had saved 25 cents by walking ...
Lobbyists Rule
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009
Some enterprises signal what’s going on inside by hanging a red light outside. Mayor Jerry Sanders has revealed what’s going ...
The Mayor and the Dirty-Money Guy
Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009
Did Mayor Jerry Sanders get his money out of a scandal-ridden private equity group whose chief executive has filed for ...
War at La Jolla Farms
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009
Life should be peaceful at La Jolla Farms, that tony area of 100 superluxury homes adjacent to Torrey Pines State ...
No Cure, No Shutdown (Yet)
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
After an agonizing wait of more than 40 years, science may come up with a treatment for lupus. But the ...






