Three-thirty Friday afternoon. Gloria, a twenty-three-year-old drug addict convicted on two counts of grand theft, appears unexpectedly to see deputy probation officer Sherri Necochea at the East County Regional Center in El Cajon. One of …
Thursday, August 30
Thursday, August 23
The Most Reverend Leo Thomas Maher, Roman Catholic Bishop of San Diego, wields complete authority over a diocese comprising San Diego and Imperial counties, with total assets of at least ten million dollars. The well-spring …
We have seen the sights before we got here: movies, TV, the neighbors' slides, these postcards that carry the treacherous lies. The sights have been sold at Toys R Us in the form of 1000-piece jigsaws.
Thursday, August 16
Last May a former El Cajon elementary school teacher placed an ad In the Personals section of the San Diego Union that read: “Lipolysis. If you have had this done, please call me,” and she …
Thursday, August 9
At 6:33 p.m. the radio in the Life Flight operations center at UCSD Medical Center in Mission Hills crackles: two accidents have occurred in the East County. In Alpine, a young boy has fallen off …
The local humanist community is abuzz lately with allegations of anti-Semitism. The current controversy stems from a January, 1984 issue of a local publication called The Truthseeker, published and edited by 84-year-old James Harvey Johnson. …
Thursday, August 2
I was standing on the highest point in Baja — the highest point for hundreds of miles in every direction. To the west I could see the Pacific Ocean. To the east I could see the Gulf of California.
In the waters just off the Coronado Municipal Golf Course, from the clubhouse stretching south about half a mile, more than twenty boats are anchored year-round while their owners live aboard them, and another seventy …