Last year, the San Diego economy, adjusted for inflation, grew faster than both the state and the nation. This year, though, the standings will flip, says Kelly Cunningham, economist for the National University System Institute …
February 4, 2014
News & Stories
San Diego economy to lag state, nation
Nude-industry lobbyist in current scandal scored $10k
Who did Marco Polo Cortes lobby and when did he lobby them? That's the question making the rounds of San Diego city hall in the wake of the lobbyist's arrest on federal charges related to …
February 4, 2014
Drinking in history
"Sometimes," says Wes, "late at night, when I'm cleaning up and nobody's around, you feel them. You don't exactly hear them or see them, but you feel them. The spirits." He's talking about the women …
February 4, 2014
Activists incensed over Keystone XL pipeline
A crowd of protesters was posted again outside federal buildings at the corner of Broadway and Front Street on Monday night, February 3, promising stiff opposition to the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would transport …
February 4, 2014
Hillcrest’s Uptown shopping center due for “re-do”
The Uptown District Shopping Center at 1030 University Avenue in Hillcrest, built in the early ’90s, is a busy location. But vacancies have been popping up in the 148,638-square-foot urban center, anchored by Ralphs. The …
February 4, 2014
The Foreigner at Lamb’s Players
Though unlike in countless ways, Joe Orton and Larry Shue shared two things in common: one comic, the other tragic. They wrote two of the funniest plays in the English language, and both died young. …
February 4, 2014
Fishtank Ensemble and the musical saw
Something you don’t hear every day: musical saw. And a virtuoso musical saw at that, which is hard to define since there are so few people practicing that antediluvian backwoods art. Opera singer Ursula Knudsen …
February 4, 2014
Sempra to get fat subsidy from Nevada
The Nevada governor's Office of Energy has approved $66 million in tax incentives for Sempra Energy to build a solar project in Boulder City in Southern Nevada, 20 miles from Las Vegas. The tax breaks …
February 4, 2014
Trying to find a niche at the farmers' market
A certain La Jolla resident/presidential candidate made the wrong kind of headlines a couple years ago when he suggested not enough Americans have the entrepreneurial spirit required to borrow twenty grand from their parents to …
February 4, 2014
Thugs shot by would-be victim make plea deals
Two men who got shot while trying to rob Uncle Tony's Italian restaurant in Vista admitted to assault with a firearm, and each can expect four years in prison, according to their plea-deal paperwork. Louis …
February 4, 2014
Klein, Morgan U-T departures, considered together
I spent much of yesterday interviewing people about the February 2004 firing of Neil Morgan, who died February 1 this year at 89. People who were close to the situation told me that Morgan's firing …
February 4, 2014