It reads like a page out of a comic book: an underground team of developers and building-industry professionals whose sole mission is to change land-use policies, in some cases easing development regulations. But this isn’t …
December 18, 2013
San Diego's Code Monitoring Team: Foxes guard the henhouse
City attorney Goldsmith met with NASSCO shipbuilders
One week before a coalition of shipbuilders submitted more than 53,000 signatures to initiate a referendum aimed at overturning the city council's update of the Barrio Logan Community Plan, city attorney Jan Goldsmith was at …
December 21, 2013
Commonwealth Ultra Lounge already ailing?
There’s just something about 1263 University Avenue. Restaurants there are always already doomed to failure. How many have come and come in recent years? Most recently, the Range (which wasn’t any good) made a go …
December 22, 2013
Big Screen Christmas Mailbag
When you consider all the questionable "bile" this column pumps, I am amazed to report that one Joseph Genoese has decided to take offense to a goof column written under the guise of "Earl Stiff." …
December 23, 2013
David Batterson
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Dec. 23, 2013
Is Downtown eating its own?
Croce's is on the way out — of downtown — and on the way in, to Bankers Hill. Like Café Bassam before it, the beloved live music icon had to abandon downtown and retreat up the hill because it had been too successful. It sounds as though Croce's Park West will be pretty much the same, but the Gaslamp won't. A bit more life has just been sapped from it.
December 27, 2013
Environmental Health Coalition files second lawsuit
Now that the date for voters to decide on the Barrio Logan Community Plan update is set for June 2014, the legal fight will resume. Earlier this week, attorneys for the Environmental Health Coalition — …
December 26, 2013