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Michelle Wyatt murder solved with genetic genealogy

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Head Quack says “CEO sounds too boss-like”

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Michelle Wyatt murder solved with genetic genealogy

Forty years ago, in March 1982, I wrote a Reader cover story about the brutal rape and murder of a 20-year-old college student named Michelle Wyatt in her Santee condominium. ...

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Local teen Isaac Guerrero taps into secret sound of plants

Plant jam : Sixteen-year-old musician and aspiring botanist Isaac Guerrero attends San Diego Met High School on the campus of Mesa College, which he describes as “a college prep high ...

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Head Quack says “CEO sounds too boss-like”

If it looks, walks, and quacks like a certain common North American waterfowl, it’s probably just what you think it is. But when Matt Delvecchio named the brewery he co-founded ...

Linda Vista Mesa College Tin Fork

Homestyle Korean Hawaiian

Oh mama. I was counting on these guys. Just hopped off the 44 where Linda Vista Road meets Mesa College Drive. ’Cause I know a couple of über-cheap places where ...

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No summer classroom teaching at city colleges, fall is online

In late March when Mesa college shut down under the statewide stay-at-home order, there was only one way to close. "We all left campus like the place was on fire," said president Pamela Luster in ...

May 5, 2020

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Software headaches at San Diego city colleges

During the 2019 - 20 academic year that started this week, the San Diego Community College District will have to trim its spending by $30 million in order to achieve a balanced budget. So stated ...

August 21, 2019

Mesa College Poetry

June 21, 2017

Facebook posted only the words “Go outside.”

Thoughts at the End of Empire It’s possible future generations will destroy our art, literature, music, film, and corporations, in bitterness for allowing ecosystem collapse, and mistrust for how many leaders were distracted, apathetic, selfish, ...

Balboa Park Mesa College Neighborhood News Ocean Beach

May 8, 2017

San Diego dog parks becoming dust boxes

About two dozen dog and park lovers braved the rain Sunday for a protest over the lack of city care for the very dusty Dusty Rhodes dog park in Ocean Beach. The dog park that ...

Linda Vista Mesa College Neighborhood News

November 20, 2015

Mesa College observatory dedicated to Trailmaster Schad

Colleagues and friends of Jerry Schad, astronomer, teacher, and author of San Diego's best hiking guide, assembled at Mesa College Thursday (November 18) to dedicate the Jerry Schad Observatory atop the Mathematics and Natural Sciences ...

Clairemont Linda Vista Mesa College Neighborhood News

February 17, 2015

Here's what we got for $40.5 million

San Diego Mesa College faculty members and students cut the ribbon on its $40.5 million Social and Behavioral Sciences Building on February 11 — the latest in a years-long overhaul of the campus located where ...

Clairemont Cover Stories Mesa College

August 14, 2013

Hugh Tech High alum Nico D’Amico-Barbour says no thanks to college

Young guys explain why they are passing on going to college. Absurd expense and subsequent debt is one reason, but even a young man from a well-off family sees other deterrents.

Mesa College Street Style

May 15, 2013

Campus Style at San Diego Mesa College

Stripes have always been in. Your grandmother once rocked stripes and probably still does. They are as much of a wardrobe staple as a crisp white button-down. Whether they are subtle, chunky, thick, pin,zig-zag, horizontal ...

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Mesa College 32nd Annual Golden Scissors Fashion Show

Mesa College fashion and design students are holding their 32nd annual Golden Scissors fashion show on Friday May 10th, 5:30-9pm at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina. What sets Golden Scissors apart from other fashion shows ...

May 3, 2013

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Mesa College: Campus Style

I was surprised to discover that the students at Mesa Community College were better dressed than the SDSU students I came across on Tuesday afternoon. Perhaps it's because Mesa folks pay less tuition and have ...

September 6, 2012

Mesa College Neighborhood News

March 2, 2012

National Day of Action for Education at Mesa College

On March 1, students and faculty members at three local college campuses took part in the National Day of Action for Education. Walk-outs were staged at City College, SDSU, and UCSD. Student rallies decried higher ...

City College Mesa College Miramar College Neighborhood News

November 14, 2008

Props to SDCCD

Back in 2002, San Diego voters approved Proposition S, a construction-bond program for the San Diego Community College District. The $685 million in bonds provided for repairs and major renovations at each of the three ...

Mesa College News Under the Radar

April 2, 2008

Quids, quos, and a pro

The source of campaign money recently given to Marty Block may come to Democrats as a bit of a surprise. Block is the San Diego community college board president running in the Democratic primary to ...

City College Cover Stories Mesa College SDSU UCSD USD

August 30, 2007

San Diego students jaded after Columbine

On April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, a sullen, troubled, twisted young man killed 32 people, injured 25 more, and then took his own life in the deadliest ...

City Lights Linda Vista Mesa College

March 15, 2007

Mesa College to build garage in Linda Vista canyon

Where do you suppose San Diego Mesa College, which lies in Clairemont on its southern edge, will build a huge garage to solve its student parking problems? Why, largely on Linda Vista canyon land, of ...

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Michelle Wyatt murder solved with genetic genealogy

Local teen Isaac Guerrero taps into secret sound of plants

Head Quack says “CEO sounds too boss-like”

Homestyle Korean Hawaiian

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