You have seen them, these Porsches — on highways, on city streets, in parking lots — and you have coveted. You have gazed at them as they passed you, stopped and walked around them when …
February 12, 1998
News & Stories
Corvette owners are into them for show, so are Ferrari owners. But Porsche owners are purposeful people.
Scripps' Nicholas Graham: El Niño is key to just about everything
Can malaria be predicted by changes in ocean temperatures? Can you foretell a dengue fever epidemic by reading atmospheric pressures? Does hantavirus disease follow El Niño? Are climatologists the doctors of the future? The answer …
February 12, 1998
Life and death of poet Kathy Asher
Before we get to the memorial held for writer Kathy Acker at the Spruce Street Forum in Hillcrest on Sunday, February 1, we need to go to Palestine or certain things won't make sense. Between …
February 12, 1998
Casey Gwinn tells city councilmembers they can grab freebies at city's stadium box
With a recent court decision to lift campaign-contribution limits statewide, members of the San Diego City Council are busy raising big money from local special interests, according to recently filed campaign-disclosure statements. Byron Wear, who …
February 12, 1998
Samoans gather in National City and explain backgound
“When the tattoo is finally done, you wait for a minute for the pain to go down, then you yell. You blast up. You’re finished! You feel like you want to break everything around."
February 12, 1998
Cancer Isn't the Only Killer Stalking Randa
Randa’s blood pressure had risen again, and I needed to know why. An African-American police officer in her 40s and a single mother of three, Randa’s lips parted in a jovial smirk. “You really want …
February 12, 1998
Pine Valley girl recalls the 1970 Laguna fire
In the fall of 1970, California caught fire. Between September 25 and October 3 that year, the U. S. Forest Service recorded 16 fires that consumed over 528,000 acres statewide. From Humboldt County in the …
February 12, 1998