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Don Bauder (RIP)

Don Bauder (RIP)
While attending the University of Wisconsin, Don Bauder held a number of posts at the campus newspaper, including editor in chief. He received a bachelor's degree in business (1959) and a master's in journalism (1961) and then spent four years in advertising and PR. In 1964, he joined the Chicago bureau of Business Week magazine as reporter/writer. In 1966, he got the job as bureau chief in Cleveland.

Don left Cleveland in 1973 to become financial editor and columnist for the San Diego Union. When the Union and Tribune merged in the early 1990s, he remained at that post; in '95, he was named senior columnist at the Union-Tribune.

He retired from the U-T in March of 2003 and began writing his weekly column for the Reader in April of 2003. Now he writes a column every two weeks, and contributes to News Ticker regularly.

In 1985-1986, Don wrote Captain Money and the Golden Girl (a book about a local Ponzi scheme), which stayed on the L.A. Times best-seller list for more than two months. He's been married for 56 years and has two sons and two grandsons.

Articles by Don Bauder (RIP)

San Diego Union and San Diego Reader writer Don Bauder passes away

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June 24, 2024
Alleys are San Diego's last frontier

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October 16, 2023
David Ross – knew San Diego homeless intimately

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October 2, 2023
Tom Deméré takes us to Mission Valley of 50 million years ago

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October 1, 2023
Old Otay Mesa

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Rancho Santa Fe: elevator from the 12-car garage

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Freeway ramp to shave Old Town and Presidio Park?

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How the Indians lost Warner Hot Springs

The removal of the Cupeños from Warner Springs Beginning on November 21, 1851, the Indians burned Warner’s buildings; stole his cattle, horses, and sheep; and killed nine Americans. The revolt was soon put down, Cupa …

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