San Diego's sewer rates haven't gone up in ten years. Now, the city is playing catch up with a four-year string of rate hikes they say is needed to maintain the aging system, and fund …
September 28, 2021
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San Diego's sewer and water rates due to climb
Audit hits Donovan state prison for shoddy tuberculosis care, loose injectable handling
The 3,786 or so inmates at California’s Donovan Correctional Facility on Otay Mesa, a half mile from the Mexico–United States border, are getting generally so-so medical care, says a new audit by the state’s Office …
September 27, 2021
Ocean Beach and Pacific Beach – open-air insane asylums?
In Ocean Beach the lack of any code enforcement, compassionate or otherwise, continues to fuel health and safety concerns for the those who live there permanently. Homeless encampments on the beach, on the bluffs, litter …
September 27, 2021
San Diego's smoggiest days, Fall migrant birds
The Smoggiest Days of the Year are most likely to occur during the next several weeks. Persistent temperature inversions (warmer air overlying cool marine air) are frequent this time of year. These inversions conspire with …
September 27, 2021
The ugly war housing of Midway-Rosecrans, San Diego's Japanese imprisoned in Poston, Arizona
The Frontier They Want Us to Forget By the late 1960s, the only Frontier structures that still remained were two war-era public schools, Barnard Elementary and the Midway Continuation High School. The city council had …
September 27, 2021
It’s Time to Get Buggy
Dock Totals 9/19 – 9/25: 4236 anglers aboard 191 trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 2931 bluefin tuna (up to 240 pounds), 37 bocaccio, 93 bonito, 176 calico bass (53 released), …
September 26, 2021
Tony Bennett’s first and last dramatic performance
What can be said of an ensemble drama in which Milton Berle gives the best performance? Or a searing indictment of the Oscars that couldn’t have been made without producer Joseph E. Levine first obtaining …
September 26, 2021
Urban adventuring in Oakland
Oakland, California, is the ultimate destination for those who love urban adventure. As San Francisco’s sister city, it’s known for its amity, vibrancy, and spunk. Whenever I visit, I always learn something new about what …
September 26, 2021
See's chocolates vs. Whitman's, how they make round M&Ms
Whitman's Samplers vs. See's An unmarked lid allows Mrs. See and her customers to free-associate, sweets-wise, and put whatever they like into a box. If this idea seems frivolous or frightening, here’s another solution. Make …
September 26, 2021
In the thick of it with Edward Elgar
The September version of The San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival concluded with two spectacular concerts on Friday, September 17, and Saturday, September 18. At the final concert, Mainly Mozart CEO Nancy Laturno confirmed that the …
September 25, 2021
Betty Broderick's version of killing her husband
Three Bullets and Nine Years Later She said Brad Wright, her former boyfriend, had once gotten her a subscription to the San Diego Business Journal—a choice she thought was insane. She hadn’t read it when …
September 25, 2021
The massive, small molcajete at La Sinaloense
When our server places it on the table, it’s so large that we assume the kitchen has sent out the two-person order by mistake. But no, this large bowl contains the single order of the …
September 24, 2021
Black Lives Matter denounces Sea World’s new Sesame Place as White Supremacy
“From Peyton Place to Melrose Place, the P-word has always been code for Protected Private Property,” says Black Lives Matter spokesperson Natasha Trigger-Warning. “And what it’s protected from is the Street — as in, the …
September 24, 2021
In effort to reach out to vaccine hesitant, County introduces mobile health drones
A fully masked and socially distant county employee reassures an uncooperative Lakeside resident who read on the internet that the vaccine may affect fertility that while President Biden’s patience may be wearing then, he has …
September 24, 2021
In brilliant capstone to its declarations on racism and vaccine misinformation, Board of Supervisors declares “the twisted darkness that lurks in the depths of every human heart” a public health crisi
“It started with racism, because it had to,” says County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher-Ram as he looks back on his Supreme Council’s ever more complete triumph over evil. “We here in San Diego simply had to …
September 24, 2021