Border Patrol’s fentanyl follies The U. S. Border Patrol is sitting on a vast horde of deadly illegal drugs collected over two decades, creating significant risks to the safety and security of the agency’s sprawling …
April 14, 2021
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Over 85 percent of fentanyl seizures at San Diego border
San Diego's vinyl records surge, but why?
Nicholas Friesen is a 38-year-old native San Diegan – he grew up in Southeast – who has been working in used record stores all his life. “I’ve got this 10,000-hour thing going for me,” he …
April 14, 2021
Why are these Zoom moms wined up?
Drinking and kids don’t mix Your cover story for April 8, “There are still tears,” was offensive and racist. The cover depicted two brown children and a woman with her head deep in a giant …
April 14, 2021
The man behind the Mills Act
(To the tune of ‘Tiptoe Through the Tulips’). Bulldoze, through the redwoods Through the big trees, And the old folks’ home, Come rampage through the redwoods with me On my new Caterpillar tractor... This was …
April 14, 2021
If Elliott Smith came back from the dead
Dear Hipster: You want to know one thing you never hear about? Hipster mansions. If you picture the most hipster house you can imagine, you see a teeny tiny little cottage somewhere, or an itty …
April 14, 2021
Oceanside police gently push homeless out of tents
A sprawling tent camp near Oceanside Boulevard and I-5 that was home to about 50 homeless people was upended Tuesday morning when a phalanx of some 40 police officers descended on the campsite built on …
April 13, 2021
The fate of Tijuana's 300,000 stray dogs
According to Ivan Marquez from ProvidAnimal Tijuana, there are more than 300,000 stray dogs in Tijuana. “Right now it is difficult to know, but four years ago that was the estimated population. Due to cancellation …
April 13, 2021
The city of San Diego and San Diego Unified plan 45 new parks
There's a divide in the county when it comes to outdoor recreation. North of the 8, parks unfurl in all directions. In the South Bay, you have to squint to see them. Thanks to San …
April 13, 2021
Oceanside drug addict loses third child
In 2010, when Kelsey Shande Carpenter was 20 years old, she was arrested for possession of heroin and burglary. “She has been dealing with drug addiction for over ten years,” a prosecutor said in court …
April 13, 2021
From ribeye to root beer, Grove Grinder stands out
“Try our smoked ribeye,” read the small, hand-painted sandwich board sign on the sidewalk out front. And if there’s any hand-painted sentiment more likely to win my attention, I can’t think of it. Which isn’t …
April 12, 2021
Is Normal Heights' Orchid complex ugly or cool?
On April 11, Lisa Sku and her doggie Stella strolled past Orchid, a newly built Adams Avenue structure their neighbor compared to "Darth Vader." "I appreciate the urban design element," she said to me later …
April 12, 2021
Infamous Las Vegas name behind $1500 in Gloria post-election cash
San Diego and Las Vegas have had a long, wild history together. Besides the mobbed-up Moe Dalitz's La Costa resorts, San Diego County has played host to marginal figures who became Vegas notables, including Dalitz …
April 12, 2021
Mustard, cottonwoods, locust trees, black oaks
Mustard, a nonnative plant more like a weed than a wildflower, is blooming profusely on grassy slopes all along the coastline of San Diego County. An old story, probably apocryphal, tells of the padres scattering …
April 12, 2021
The glorious old trolley, Pt. Loma begonia gardens, drunk Frozen Chosin vet
The glories of San Diego's trolley system The spacious trolley car carried them up Sixteenth Street and down Broadway, where at Horton Plaza they switched to the line heading up what is now Pacific Highway. …
April 12, 2021
Traffic lights on Market Street, baseball card nostalgia, Surfer Motel attacked
Why 24th and Market got no traffic light It is an intersection that only God could love. Market and Twenty-fourth streets: its sidewalks are stuck about with telephone poles, shadeless palms, and a few eugenias …
April 11, 2021