Young guys explain why they are passing on going to college. Absurd expense and subsequent debt is one reason, but even a young man from a well-off family sees other deterrents.
August 14, 2013
Blog Entries
- Rockies take game and series with Padres
- Ramblings About What I Believe...Chapter 1
- SDG&E Debuts "SDG&E Man" in effort to improve public image
- Report: Silvio Berlusconi eyeing run for San Diego Mayor
- Existence of Higgs boson particle confirmed
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- Manchester, Sempra, and Jacobs gave heavily to sexually accused Schwarzenegger
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- In wake of Hooters ban on Filner, Tilted Kilt extends invitation to embattled Mayor
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- Porn for film historians
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- Lawsuit accuses Downtown San Diego Partnership of misusing assessment district funds
- In wake of banning Mayor Filner, Hooters restaurant renames itself "Breasts"
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- Padres come back on Rockies
- Oceanside police found deceased man in street
- Veteran sues County, Coronado after children were wrongfully taken because of medical marijuana use
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- New northbound lanes at San Ysidro POE to open Friday
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- SeaWorld stock tanks following poor earnings
- Scone With the Wind: Outside at the Brick and Bell
News & Stories
Hugh Tech High alum Nico D’Amico-Barbour says no thanks to college
Trailer and heavy load abandoned in Dulzura?
A massively oversized semi trailer that broke down last Wednesday (August 7) has baffled and frustrated residents of the East County community of Dulzura. The veritable train of trailers sat on the side of Highway …
August 14, 2013
Beautifully rinky-dink
Ed snags a free beer, gobbles among gobblers at Nate’s Garden Grill, on the same property as Bill Tall’s City Farmers Nursery
August 14, 2013
Black Angels descend on Belly Up
The Black Angels, from Austin, Texas, are known as a psychedelic rock band. That’s a kind of music that dates back to the golden era of garage bands. The Angels owe much to the 1960s, …
August 14, 2013
Agave: A gathering of juggalos
‘We want our albums and live shows to have the diversity of a jukebox” says Tony Goncalves, who fronts the salsa-tinged jam band Agave. “You never know what we’re going to play next, but it’s …
August 14, 2013
Gonzales Canyon, Torrey Pines Loop
Find two rare plants on the Torrey Pines Loop Trail — bush rue when descending into Gonzales Canyon and Torrey pine trees when ascending to the mesa top.
August 14, 2013
Touched by a Lemur
My sister Jane — a bold, don’t-take-no-for-an-answer saleswoman — lives by the adage, “It doesn’t hurt to ask.” Even when she knows a request is unlikely to be granted, she still throws it out there …
August 14, 2013
Capitol of cool
Local filmmaker Bill Perrine of Billingsgate Media is collaborating with musicians, promoters, and club owners to produce It’s Gonna Blow!!! — San Diego’s Music Underground 1986–1996.
August 14, 2013
I want to be an independent tradeswoman.
Molly Whittaker explains how San Diego Continuing Education helped inspire her passion for upholstery and where she’s going next. First, tell me a little bit about your job history. I’ve been working as a professional …
August 14, 2013
We're doing arms tonight, FYI
Yoni Baker manages to make a living (thanks to other jobs) sitting as a nude model for artists in San Diego.
August 14, 2013
Service for seven
Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker), an African-American man born into a family of sharecroppers and schooled in the art of “knowing he’s black,” spends 34 years of his life in domestic servitude under seven presidents. While …
August 14, 2013
Expensive raincoats
The federal Department of Health and Human Services is demanding that the State of California give back what the feds claim is $627,000 in unallowable costs run up in San Diego for contraceptive supplies wrongly …
August 14, 2013
The image-maker
Arnold Newman: Masterclass, on view at the San Diego Museum of Art until September 8. 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park. 619-232-7931; sdmart.org Mirrors were scarce in most mid-19th-century houses. Even by the 1840s, when a …
August 14, 2013
Gay blues
Blues singer Earl Thomas, whose same-sex marriage is imminent, explains the circumstance of being a performer in a genre that is typically hetero oriented.
August 14, 2013
Fly away with a job.
Jessica Gier learned to fly her father’s Cessna 172 at Gillespie Field in El Cajon when she was 18. By the time she was 23 she was flying for a freight company and now, 10 …
August 14, 2013
Mitt and Bob show
City-hall lobbyist Matt Peterson has a good customer in former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. According to a recently filed disclosure report, the house-remodeling permission specialist was paid a healthy $25,191 by Romney and his …
August 14, 2013
Priest on steroids
Sean Peck, front man of San Diego heavy metal band Cage, talks about their heyday ’90s and how the gigs started drying up in Europe after he punched out Blaze Bayley of Iron Maiden.
August 14, 2013
The carrot or the stick
The crisis of obesity and related healthcare costs that is hurtling toward us faster than the speed of sound has employers nationwide scratching their heads over how to combat this double-edged problem. Company-sponsored wellness programs …
August 14, 2013
Never Homeless: House bounce
It all started when I was working for Freeway Insurance as a sales trainee in Clairemont. I was hired by my good friend Kevin, my former manager at American Graphics, where we sold promotional giveaways …
August 14, 2013
Swan song
In the wake of Bob Filner’s sexual harassment blowout, Public Policy Strategies, the lobbying shop owned by the mayor’s erstwhile political guru Tom Shepard, pretty well seems to have followed suit. According to published reports, …
August 14, 2013
San Diego builds into convention center glut
The convention center industry knows there is a huge glut of space. Why don't San Diego expansion boosters mention it?
August 14, 2013
Another One Bites the Dust
A gym-goer expresses her phobia of falling off the treadmill and is astounded that somebody would bring a bottle of vodka to drink from before their workout.
August 14, 2013
From the “Malatimadhava”
Glory to Saktinath, upon whose steps, The mighty goddesses attend, whom seek Successfully alone the firm of thought. He crowns the lofty aims of those who know And hold his form, as the pervading spirit, …
August 14, 2013
Baseball in the Living Room
Through the yellow roses on the coffee table I peer at the ball game, tired of Whitman, tired of wanting to be great. “Holy cow,” roars the announcer, “walk him walk him,” Dad hollers, my …
August 14, 2013