Cover Stories
The San Diego Evening Tribune is not averse to hollering at its audience. Its “green sheet” street edition shouts about something perilous in the world nearly every day. But the Tribune really hits stride when …
Once upon a time there was a freckle-faced little girl named Maureen who lived in Mission Hills. She had twelve brothers and sisters, and though her parents didn’t have much money, they boasted that instead …
Oscar has a saying about the business he’s in: “Set the stage and in come the actors.” Although Oscar loves drama, his business isn’t the theater. The actors he’s talking about are smugglers, drug dealers, …
Eydie Mae Hunsberger’s breasts contain six lumps of cancer. She has come to lecture here at the Hippocrates Health Institute, and she’s generating vitality like a cheerleader at a pep rally. So many people jam …
“It's far superior to the Twist,” says Mai Warner. “We simulate the steps people do while bike riding. It’s fun and has excellent therapeutic value. My grandchildren are crazy about it.” Warner, who’s real name …
Now Ron Jensen knows what it’s like to run a newspaper south of the border. He learned his lesson last summer, when a Rosarito Beach businessman named Hugo Torres hired him to start the Baja …
When he died four months ago. James Edward Morris. Jr., had his fingers on top of the wall that successful people stand on. He was climbing, then he fell. Thirty-one years old, he had just …
Four o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon in late December, and the stands of Tijuana's new baseball stadium are deserted except for a few kids chasing each other through the rows of empty seats. Sunlight still …
The dust billowing up from the unpaved alley broke the morning sunlight into shafts which knifed down from the lips of the corrugated roofs after the garbage truck roared by. Willie Carter, who’d just maneuvered …
From nearly every hilltop in Fallbrook, Escondido, or Vista they can be seen: grove after grove of avocado trees, like rows of leafy green towers stretching away into the distance. This peculiar green fruit from …
Greatest Injustices George Mitrovich President, City Club The failure of the port commissioners to come forward with a single proposal to Improve air traffic safety at Lindbergh Field following the tragic crash of PSA Flight …
It’s easy to see why the United Port District’s headquarters building is called The Rock. From the corner of Pacific Highway and Sassafras Street, it looms mutely, ominously. One might say it overlooks Lindbergh Field, …
Martha and Jim Swaffield saw the first photograph of their baby three and a half months before it was born. A technician at Palomar Hospital in Escondido had aimed an ultrasound machine at Martha’s growing …
“They’re a pretty strong bunch of kids and they realize the dangers. They look out for each other. If there were only one, I’d be worried. One kid out in the cold cruel world. But …
Quitting time comes at five o’clock for Angie Bowen, and Angie’s routine usually doesn’t vary. Her noisy office, the San Diego branch of the Automobile Club of Southern California, lies across from the southern fringe …
Rifle fire rises up out of the ravines. Diesel engines scream from the mesas. Artillery rounds slam into the hills with chest-pounding thuds. Over nearly every square inch of Camp Pendleton the Marines march, drive, …