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Good News for SR 125 Toll Road Drivers

Drivers who have avoided the South Bay portion of SR125 because of costly tolls will be pleased to learn that the SANDAG board of directors will be voting on a toll reduction May 25. An ...

Tales of Bullying and the 1st Annual Ignite What’s Right 5k

“But then around section 5, his leg began to loosen, his lungs to unclench. Better thoughts flowed through his brain. He picked up the pace.” Chad Harbach, “The Art of Fielding” Sunday, October 23rd 2011 ...

Life as an Educated Peasant. Being Poor in America's Finest City.

It isn't hard to find oneself numbered among the working poor in San Diego. At least it wasn't for me. But as someone surely said to me at some point in my youth, "Your education ...

Life as an Educated Peasant. Welcome to my blog.

Thank you for reading my first-ever blog. I am a San Diego native, born and raised in the South Bay, particularly, Chula Vista. I have also lived in Lincoln Acres, which is an unincorporated San ...

Voters Want Better Insults, Polls Show

It wasn’t the insult of the century. It’s not going to be tweeted exponentially or launch council member Rudy Ramirez to Youtube immortality. But, it was an insult nonetheless. And in the vanilla-bland world of ...

You Can't Drink The Early Bird Special

Its hard find a good place to drink in Chula Vista. I don't know what scheme the city planners enacted to kill the night life, but it worked. Finding a nice bar in Chula Vista ...

Quietly pondering..

the cosmic question: why? [Photo of a dying star, spewing innards]

Separate Yet One

It was below 40 degrees this morning as I stood at a high spot overlooking lower Otay Lakes. It's sunny, but for San Diego, especially east Chula Vista, THAT is cold! But it's midweek of ...

Disappointing First 2009 Full Moon

I ran to Mt. Hawk at 5:01 PM, Saturday night, January 10th, to witness what NASA touted as the “biggest and brightest one of 2009". The NASA statement continued saying, this month’s full moon will ...

Still Part of Ugly Statistics

I mean, I'm still part of that 6.7 % unemployment rate. Thursday morning, I watched President-elect Obama's speech on the state of economy. He said the situation may be bad now, but if we don't ...

The View from Mountain Hawk Park

Keep driving east of Olympic Parkway from I-805, past the US Olympic Training Center, and you'll find Mt. Hawk. Park. Walk to the gazebo across the park, stand quietly and be in awe. Before you ...

Painfully Normal: Suburbia, East Chula Vista and Family Values

The year was 1994. I was 13. The time was 7pm, I was suppose to be doing my Algebra homework, but I had a secret obsession with watching a news magazine show called Hard Copy. ...

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