Last month, the United States government took the unprecedented step of placing Ramon Eduardo Arellano Felix on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, and the State Department offered a $2 million reward. The government began …
October 16, 1997
News & Stories
El Cocinero confesses about FBI Top Ten Most Wanted's Arellano Felix
Emerald Triangle of marijuana production moves to San Diego County
Is more marijuana grown in San Diego, Orange and Riverside counties than in Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity and Del Norte counties? And do Mexican nationals produce close to 90 percent of San Diego County's crop? Yes …
October 16, 1997
The melancholy journey of a Ramona steer to meathood
Vern Robinson’s Little Pistol Pete, a 16 month – old, 1250-pound, largely black Maine-Anjou/Angus steer, stands on the clean concrete slab under the burning blue sky of an August day that is just beginning to …
October 16, 1997
The problems with Southwood Psychiatric Center in Chula Vista
Christy Scheck, on March 6, 1992, a Friday evening, walked into a bathroom in Southwood Psychiatric Center's Residential Treatment Center in Chula Vista (now called Bayview and under new management). Thirteen-year-old Scheck had been a …
October 16, 1997
The 15-foot photo of Susan Golding at the airport
A yet-to-air expose on child-resistant bottle caps by KNSD, San Diego s NBC owned-and-operated television station, has stirred up a tempest in Washington, D.C. The Washington Post reported earlier this week that the station put …
October 16, 1997
Co-founder Don Selby of Poetry Daily
“We have variously independently chosen a week of poems and worked collaboratively. All three of us read books and journals that we receive from publishers. We try to put poems together that hang together….”
Where mortarboards come from
Matthew: What lunatic designed the mortarboard, and why are people still wearing them in the 20th Century? — Gary in La Mesa We don’t have the lunatic’s name, but he sort of ripped off the …
October 16, 1997
Behind scenes at San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts
1. The Vault If a photograph dies and goes to heaven, it might end up here in the breathable vault at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. The prospect for immortality is good, …
October 16, 1997