Idyllic Idyllwild: a weekend in the woods
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Mission Valley Stories
Las Vegas makes it easier to defect to the Raiders
“Chargers fans are loyal to a certain point and then they give up”
On September 1, about “one thousand” Oakland Raiders fans rendezvoused at the Handlery Hotel in Mission Valley for the Raiders Fan Convention (RFC). Many of the black-and-silver adorned fans were more than welcoming to the ...
Disbarred attorney Prevost raising funds
To fight motel over dog’s death
Mary Frances Prevost, who billed herself as “California’s Top Criminal & DUI Attorney,” but was disbarred early this year, ls trying to raise money over gofundme.com so she can take legal action against Motel 6 ...
Sports car racers fret next to Midway
Can they use North Island?
On June 12 at 7:30 p.m., about 30 European vehicle owners met by the USS Midway on North Harbor Drive south of Broadway, downtown. Volkswagen, BMW, Audi, and other European-make vehicle owners have been congregating ...
Bus rider pet peeves: walking and waiting
What will get more riders to saddle up?
Metropolitan Transit System or MTS has been hanging Choose Transit posters at bus stops around town. Plus they reached out to ask public opinion in April and May. Shorter commute times, more transit options, and ...
Just a Lo Jack recovery at Michaels
The easy way to get your stolen car back
At about 5:20 p.m., on Mothers Day (May 13), four San Diego Police Department patrol vehicles pulled up in front of Michael’s at the Westfield Mission Valley mall. The police officers exited their vehicles, passed ...
Comic dealers want C-notes and benjies
Don't go on the internet
On April 28, John purchased a Howard the Duck comic book at the San Diego Rocket-Con. For the month of April, this was the third comic book and toy show in San Diego County. Like ...
San Diego State slick magazine touts Mission Valley plan
Voters still have to approve $250 million project
Taxpayer-funded San Diego State University, locked in battle with privately-run SoccerCity over who will get to develop the choice city-owned parcel once known as Qualcomm Stadium, has rolled out a glossy mail piece touting its ...
Comic Fest in a 4/20 cloud
The weed connection with cos-play
“I’m burning one for George [Clayton Johnson],” said Storm, as she lit up her three-inch brass pipe filled with “Skywalker” weed. “Oh, snap,” I said, then motioned over to the security guard at the Frankenstein ...
Want to build condos? Pay the pol
An army of influences peddlers marches on city hall
Steve Cushman, whose family’s Riverwalk Golf Course’s imminent conversion into condos and commercial space by Houston, Texas-based Hines development hinges on city hall approval, has just kicked in major money to this year’s reelection bid ...
Suspended Sierra Club's appointed leaders back SDSU
Ex-professor attacks Soccer City's "ballot box" planning
The ballot battle over the fate of the city-owned Mission Valley acreage formerly known as Qualcomm Stadium has been notched up again, this time by the San Diego chapter of the Sierra Club, which has ...
Get Out: Free President's Day Screening
Four-time Oscar-nominated contender at AMC Mission Valley
Budgeted at approximately $5 million, IMDB reports that as of January 26 the cumulative worldwide gross of Get Out has reached $254,716,534. Director Jordan Peele and the management at Universal can afford to paper the ...
The Shake Shack debate reaches So Cal
Thanks, New York
Shake Shack has landed in San Diego, and appears to be multiplying. The East Coast burger chain launched in the UTC mall last summer and opened its second Mission Valley location at the end of ...
We All Counted homeless in Mission Valley
Census takers walk the San Diego River bed
During the early morning hours of January 26th, more than 1500 volunteers fanned out across the county to conduct the annual We All Count census of homeless San Diegans. In Santee and Mission Valley, the ...
Burglary victim leads cops to crooks
“I was kind of dragging the police along behind me.”
Computer theft tracked to Mission Valley hovel.
Save Civita Because Sudberry Won't
Disappointed homeowners sue city
A group of Mission Valley residents living in the Civita community are suing the City of San Diego for approving a plan to build a freeway connector directly through their development. The group, calling itself ...
Friend of Doug digs deep against SoccerCity
Mission Valley developers pour cash into San Diego State measure
A political committee calling itself Friends of SDSU has vowed to raise sufficient signatures for a measure on next November's ballot to do battle with SoccerCity's initiative regarding privatization of the city-owned Mission Valley venue ...
Roush report: SoccerCity politics heading for CSU board
Costly details left out of presidential update on Mission Valley makeover
California State University officials are warming up their board of trustees for next year's big game in San Diego, otherwise known as San Diego State University's showdown with SoccerCity over title to the stadium formerly ...
Bicyclists vs. Civita residents re road
About 35,000 vehicle trips could roll through Mission Valley development
Circulate San Diego, a local nonprofit whose mission is to remove people from cars and increase pedestrian and transit-oriented travel, is lobbying city officials to build a controversial freeway connector through the master-planned community of ...
U-T subletting newsroom space
Adieu to 25 percent of "cool" millennial digs
When the San Diego Union-Tribune announced in November 2015 that it would vacate its 43-year-old Mission Valley headquarters in favor of a $40 million, 15-year lease of four floors in a downtown high-rise, the paper ...
Tackled in the stands at Qualcomm
Lawsuit suggests police misinterpreted fan's "high-spiritedness"
A football tackle can be a thrilling thing to see, but not in the stands when the police are tackling a fan, says a suit filed in federal court October 16. Jason Walker is suing ...
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The pet-friendly housing problem
"No friends, no music, no smoking — but you can have your dogs here."
A pet-friendly bill hit the governor's desk on September 21. The bill (AB 1137) would mandate that new multi-family housing developments allow tenants to have pets if those developments receive financing through state programs. Former ...
Sally Roush’s suite life
SDSU brass parties hearty in exclusive stadium skyboxes
Sally Roush — who took over as interim honcho of San Diego State University following the departure of Elliott Hirshman in June, just as the fight over who would rule what used be called Qualcomm ...
Faulconer's new hepatitis spinmeister
Public relations honcho tackles city hall's deadly disease meltdown
Besieged by a burgeoning hepatitis epidemic that threatens to destroy his long-cultivated image as California's progressive Republican candidate of the future, San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer has rolled out a new public relations man to ...
Rip down Qualcomm and build new stadium?
Stupidity squared
San Diegans vote next year on the plans of FS Investors to tear down Qualcomm Stadium, erect a soccer stadium, and build residential and commercial structures on the site. Before the vote, propaganda will fill ...
Stadium spending zooms to new record
But private spending outgaining public outlays
Since 2012, inflation-adjusted spending on sports stadiums and arenas has shot up 80 percent, according to an August 31 study by the Economics Group of Wells Fargo Securities. In June, the inflation-adjusted value of stadium ...
