So much for the fire extinguisher
Mercedes on fire on I-5 near Manchester
Ken Harrison 2:30 p.m., April 23
Joe Deegan
Joe Deegan started writing for the Reader in 1998 and enjoys writing about a wide variety of topics. Feel free to contact him directly.
Articles by Joe Deegan
Scandal-plagued regional teams, crowds absent from local March Madness
Scalper: "How low do you need to go. Name your price."
San Diegans lost a last chance to see one of their former prep basketball stars play again locally. Give credit (blame?) to the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s deployment of teams for the first two rounds ...
We the people of Normal Heights
The gurus to thank for today’s bars and baristas.
Adam Deutsch and his wife Claire moved to Normal Heights in 2014. Shortly after their move, the couple went to a meeting of the Normal Heights Community Planning Group to see what was going on ...
How much does it cost to settle a refugee in San Diego?
Costs, culture clashes, and the presidential threat.
On an airplane over the Atlantic Ocean, Talal Shaheen, his wife and three sons, who are Syrian refugees, looked forward to a new life in Florida. Shaheen says that American government officials had told him ...
The tale of Fastball John
Former Saint Augustine and Padres hurler remembers when...
In the spring of 1970, former baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell came to Patrick Henry High School for a baseball game between the home team and Saint Augustine’s High. As a representative from ...
Discount textbook shop forced out at San Diego State
When your competitor becomes your landlord
Taxpayer-subsidized Aztec Shops buys the land under their book-selling competitor.
A moral question about Francis Parker school’s expansion goes unanswered
Francis Parker vs. neighbors...again
Lights, traffic among residents’ objections to the school’s plans
The Fight for $15 wages on SDSU's doorstep
“President Hirshman would pay you $2 an hour if he could.”
Shortly after 8 a.m. this morning (April 14), approximately 100 people rallied in front of SDSU's East Commons and next to the offices of Aztec Shops in protest of student and other workers’ pay on ...
World War I refought in San Diego
Can’t blame it all on Germany
When Raphael Courtney was two, his mother took him to live in her father’s National City home. Her husband had recently died in a plane crash. As the boy matured, he and his grandfather grew ...
Two Talmadges
Those people want to close access to Monroe Avenue.
“The bike path will be about 8 1/2 feet wide. The traffic lanes in the road will be shrunk from 15 feet wide to 10 and 10 1/2 feet.”
