Phyllis Orrick and the Reader
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News & Politics
Faulconer paid $4000 ethics penalty with campaign cash
San Diego mayor 's 2016 political committee covered dinner, airfare, public relations
As San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer tours California in search of good ink and his next elective office, he's dipped into his mayoral campaign fund to pay for some personal baggage at home. Weeks after ...
Bowlegged BBQ is your next Texas temptation
Music, art, and slowly smoked meats converge in Mount Hope
There’s music and art all around me as I dig in to a pile of BBQ meats. Old soul and R&B album covers hang, framed on the walls, packed in alongside stylized paintings depicting scenes ...
Doug Manchester 's PR disaster tour
Ex-U-T publisher hits TV news trail promoting Bahamian relief and himself
Former Union-Tribune owner Douglas Manchester, his appointment by Republican President Donald Trump to be ambassador to the Bahamas stalled for over two years in a GOP Senate, has been promoting his charitable good work on ...
Still no replacement for San Diego auditor Eduardo Luna
Sara Jacobs money edges others out of race
The auditors are still out San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, a veteran of the public relations business, put a few good ones over on out-of-town media members covering the California Republican Party’s annual convention in ...
Who are the drag queens at Chula Vista library?
Would they try this in Coronado or La Jolla?
On September 10, Francisco Soto and Xaime Aceves Equihua (stage names “Barbie-Q” and “Raquelita”) presented Drag Queen Story Time to a reported 300 adults and children at the Civic Center Chula Vista Public Library on ...
The Louisiana Purchase
Slick short-term rentals in North Park
The Louisiana is a mixed-use complex on the corner of Louisiana Street and University Avenue in North Park. There is a hip restaurant (Louisiana Purchase) on the bottom level that, according to its website, “was ...
The true value of Animal Kingdom to Oceanside
"The show isn’t as good as it was"
When the actors of Animal Kingdom talk about why they like to film in Oceanside, the word “grit” comes up a lot. The TNT drama steeped in drug use and debauchery just finished its fourth ...
The problem with Rosarito's whale
Sharks like the fat, orcas like the liver
Dan M. and his fellow guests at the Club Marena rentals in Rosarito, had a rude awakening Saturday, September 7. “Our bedroom window is positioned about 50 meters that way, and at 2 am, she ...
National City passes toughest law on selling pets
Leverage "to go after Santee and Escondido"
National City passed an ordinance on September 3 to tighten a state law that requires pet stores to obtain all dogs, cats, and rabbits they sell from shelters or rescues. The ordinance will be the ...
First the swap meet, now the Oceanside Marketplace to close
But vendors can sell on sidewalk after 7 am and before 10 pm
Mauricio has been fixing bikes for Oceanside locals for almost three decades. He started building his clientele in 1991 when he opened his booth inside the Oceanside Marketplace, often called the indoor swap meet. His ...
No-name no-bid contract cost San Diego millions, city auditor charges
“Solicitations from other vendors were intentionally ignored or actively rejected”
Suspicious circumstances involving a multi-million-dollar, no-bid data processing contract awarded by the administration of lame-duck mayor Kevin Faulconer without city council approval has drawn scrutiny from interim city auditor Kyle Elser. A September 11 audit ...
Gloria backers borrow name of Faulconer’s dubious charity
Susan Davis, Mike Levin put on the miles
Boobs of influence Will San Diego’s lame-duck Republican mayor Kevin Faulconer try to block the hijacking of his charity’s name by backers of his would-be Democratic successor Todd Gloria? That’s just one of many questions ...
Rancho Bernardo man with 84 cockatiels fights San Diego Humane Society
“The four eldest need to come home”
Fourteen years ago Rancho Bernardo resident Robert D. Fausner had four pet cockatiels. He kept them in his one-bedroom apartment cage-free and by January of this year they had reproduced into 83 free-flying birds, plus ...
Irwin Jacobs' $9.9 million drives granddaughter’s House hopes
49th to 53rd Congressional District jump
With the abrupt retirement of House Democrat Susan Davis, followed shortly afterwards by the declaration of Sara Jacobs as a candidate in California's 53rd district, eyes are turning to her billionaire grandfather for clues to ...
Maybe Coronado will become a beacon of tiny houses
How they will add 1000 homes without high-rises
Coronado, one of the county's smallest cities, can't see how it will ever meet its share of the region's housing goals. Home to two large Navy bases, the land-locked, built-out, high-priced city was allocated 1,000 ...
