By any standards, 1998 was a seminal year for San Diego. In just one year, the city s one-time pro-environment, managed growth, fiscally conservative electorate heeded the calls by its establishment leaders — Susan Golding, …
January 7, 1999
News & Stories
John Moores: "San Diego is not a world-class city without a Formula One team"
Steve Peace threatening to run for mayor of San Diego
Has the San Diego City Council, not especially famed for its intelligence, outsmarted itself again? So suggests the Sacramento Bee in a story about the council's hiring of Kevin Sloat, a "high-profile Republican" and former …
January 7, 1999
If you build an automobile or submarine, what safety requirements are required?
To My Most Dearest Matt: Let's say that hypothetically I made an automobile. What sort of specifications and safety requirements would I have to meet in order to get it registered in the State of …
January 7, 1999
Anza-Borrego's Lower Willows, now closed to motor-vehicle access, is reverting to wilderness.
Anza-Borrego's Coyote Canyon, northwest of Borrego Springs, sustains the only dependably year-round stream in San Diego County's desert quarter. Near the lower end of the canyon, soggy Lower Willows, along with its primary source of …
January 7, 1999
Wallace Stevens: My interior paramour
Stevens finally assented to his father’s bleak view and became a lawyer. He moved to Hartford, Connecticut, and worked for 30 years at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, becoming one of its vice presidents.
January 7, 1999
How I became a Marxist at UCSD
I was aghast to find that UC grad students who have chosen their specialization do not devote themselves to the “primary” literature — a poem, a novel, or a genre—but to the “secondary” literature.
January 7, 1999
Dick Hassenger, Lakeside-based pyrotechnician, will shoot your ashes up
Woosh! There goes Aunt Josephine. Boom! Put up your umbrellas, folks. She's coming down again! Volcanic ash! Dick Hassenger says there's no ash. The cremated human remains he sends up in giant fireworks so clients …
January 7, 1999
The illiteracy of San Diego's bookstores
'I'm looking for a book." This is the most common opener from a customer in almost any bookstore in America. In an informal survey of employees in chain bookstores, it was voted the most heard …
January 7, 1999