It’s been a family market for over 30 years, and owner Dirk Stump of Stumps Family Market on Voltaire Street (at Worden) in Point Loma, has had to take restrictive measures on students who wish …
March 2, 2022
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2022 San Diego Reader writing contest winners, part 2
First Place WinnerCHANGING OF THE GUARDUnexpected violence at the San Diego ZooWhen people found out I worked security at the world famous San Diego Zoo, they asked: “What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen?” It wasn’t …
Why does SDG&E shower money on local candidates?
Sempra’s Peace piece When the city council voted 6-3 to approve a new decade-long power-providing franchise agreement with San Diego Gas & Electric back in June, Mayor Todd Gloria promised to study the idea of …
March 2, 2022
Life as an “Indo-Dutch” child
“Me?” says Robert Alfonso. “I am a half-breed.” He says it just as a matter of fact. No apology, no irony. A statement about his life as an “Indo-Dutch” child. We’re sitting at his new …
March 2, 2022
Del Mar rejects four-foot bluff fence
A deadline to save public access to Del Mar's upper bluff has passed. On the last possible day to sign an agreement with the North County Transit District that would fend off a six-foot wire …
March 1, 2022
Carlsbad Aquafarm is making locals shellfish
In the parking lot, it takes me a moment to realize what’s missing. I’m standing beside the old power plant in Carlsbad, only I don’t recognize it at first, because the stack is gone. The …
March 1, 2022
San Diego truckers in People's Convoy – photos from New Mexico and Oklahoma
Lisa H. from Valley Center wishes she could've joined her fellow semi-truckers when they left for Altadena, California, on February 23, to caravan with The People's Convoy en route to Washington DC. "What an awesome …
February 28, 2022
San Diego’s booziest university looking to up its game
When 19-year-old San Diego State University student Dylan Hernandez died falling out of bed after a night of drinking back in November of 2019, the school promised yet again to deal with its long-running intoxication …
February 28, 2022
Desert sunflower, dune primrose, lupine, desert chicory, sand verbena, desert lily– coming to Anza Borrego
Ornamental Peach Trees, with radiant white and pink blossoms, are lighting up the manicured landscape around Sixth Avenue and Laurel Street in Balboa Park. These and other “stone-fruit” trees, with and without edible fruits, belong …
February 28, 2022
Local libertarians launch, county supervisor Jack Walsh's aide works the press
The beginnings of San Diego libertarians Libertarian writers such as H.L. Mencken and Ayn Rand are scattered throughout this century, but the fact remains that until the late 1960’s, libertarianism remained little more than one …
February 28, 2022
Bass biting near Imperial Beach outfall pipe
Dock Totals 2/20 – 2/26: 771 anglers aboard 36 half-day to 1.5-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 15 bocaccio, 132 calico bass (109 released), 96 halfmoon, 3 halibut, 64 lingcod, …
February 27, 2022
Democratic elite of San Diego Rowing Club
The poor man's country club It is hard not to get swept up in the romanticism of the place. The wooden floors, the knotty pine walls, the wooden lockers next to the gym room. The …
February 27, 2022
1970s redevelopment of downtown San Diego, Helix Lake showdown
Suburbanizing San Diego's downtown Tom Hom says that his Gaslamp District will avoid the problems of a similar district in St. Louis that has now deteriorated because San Diego’s will be locally governed, where St.Louis’s …
February 26, 2022
The low-key virtues of Shootz Fish and Beer
Given the recent tourism features in several travel magazines and the Los Angeles Times, Oceanside looks on a mission to raise its profile with out of towners. However, the city’s local-oriented developments may be more …
February 25, 2022
A poem by Charles Hughes: The Faith of Children
The Faith of Children Two boys. A hot, unmoving sun. No fish. Stepping unwatched and solemn into the river— Slow, muddy water, quickly to their waists— The boys wade out like pilgrims toward an island, …
February 25, 2022