It’s August, a month in which I usually begin to look forward to the Masterworks Season at the San Diego Symphony. However, in my opinion, there will be no fall concerts this year. One of …

Alison Tummond has devoted her swimming career to teaching babies not to drown. I met her tackling actual ocean waves here where she was cooling down after Arizona’s punishing heat. “Bode Miller’s daughter Emeline drowned, …

More palm greasers’ help wanted Faced with a housing meltdown aggravated by Covid-19, the San Diego Housing Commission is preparing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars not on new residential units but to retain …

San Marcos City Manager Jack Griffin begins his annual June letter to the mayor and city council, “It is kind of my pleasure to submit the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Operations and Maintenance Budget.” That “kind …

Ollie’s joyful legacy In many respects we make San Diego our second home. We are here five or six times a year and find a tremendous sense of peace and serenity. We are certain that …

For Jeanne Volk, it was a triple whammy. “I had been teaching fourth graders for 20 years, out of the same classroom. I loved it, but I was thinking of change, about maybe starting a …

Dear Hipster: When are you going to cover that mugshot of yours in the Reader with a mask? You could just draw one on that supposed likeness of you. — Sam King, El Cajon You …