The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
May 30, 2025
Articles by Allan Peterson
San Diego landscape: brutal eucalyptus and ridiculous palms
Scavengers find their niches on I-15
The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
May 28, 2025
Pressure to build in mountains near San Marcos
San Marcos in crosshairs of GrowthzillaBack then, the mammoth housing development was called Merriam Mountains. It's now called Newland Sierra, but the opposition's pitchforks are jabbing at the same worries: density, traffic, wildfire evacuations, water, …
October 23, 2023
Where the boundaries lie in San Marcos
San Marcos hides the ugly truth about its schools I wonder too about this city I’ve moved to, a chance I took about a decade ago and that now, like all old bets, begins to …
January 21, 2023
1939 Australian Sixteen pops up in San Diego, falconry on Fiesta Island
The Simple Magic of Being Pushed Forward By Wind Norm was still alive. From photographs Annie had sent, he identified the skiff as his own creation by the unique placement of ribs just aft of …
February 13, 2022
Fallbrook school bus driver, firemen at 32nd and Lincoln
Stop Food Fights, Clean up after Motion Sickness When Renee drives the pink route, she wears a white visor and shorts that make her seem calmly athletic, like the directress of a tennis camp. Twenty-four …
January 3, 2022
Eucalyptus transformed San Diego landscape, oleander sends me over the edge
Eucalyptus It Is The eucalyptus tree and its history are not so different from the human influx into the area. Everywhere from El Cajon and La Jolla to Scripps Ranch and South Bay, up to …
April 19, 2021
San Marcos – still growing
Night people of San Marcos Miss Rincon said it was her habit to spend the night in the public bathrooms at Richmar Park, at the corner of Firebird Lane and Richmar Avenue, around the corner …
March 2, 2020
Allan Peterson and the Reader
Allan Peterson wrote feature stories for the Reader from 1994 through 1999, and again in 2013. Editor's picks of stories Peterson wrote for the Reader: Scavengers find their niches on I-15 I-15 is the highway …
June 15, 2019