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Please don't tell me about your influences

If there is one idea that gets me worked up, it’s the “inspired by” idea or the “based upon” idea. O Brother Where Art Thou borrows incidents and characters from Homer’s Odyssey but I’d rather …

September 15, 2014
Chief of staff at CPUC resigns

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced today, September 15, that it had taken several measures to deal with what it called "inappropriate email exchanges" between the commission and the utilities. Those emails, unearthed in …

September 15, 2014
Pistol-packing housewife

Julie Harper killed her husband Jason with a two-shot derringer that her father had given her for self-protection when she was going to college in the 1990s, according to her attorney who spoke to jurors …

September 15, 2014
A congresswoman’s wartime vacation

San Diego Democrat Susan Davis, traditionally the county's top junketeering member of Congress, has not disappointed this summer. In the past, the Kensington resident has been off to Vienna, Tokyo, Barcelona, Canada's Whistler Resort in …

September 15, 2014
Same taste, different shape

Who knows why cupcakes were ever round in the first place? I mean, I know why they're round now — because cupcake tins and those little corrugated paper cups in the grocery stores come that …

City attorney Goldsmith: "I apologize"

How important is California's Public Records Act to city attorney Jan Goldsmith? Not very. Goldsmith said as much during a September 12 court hearing in the case over his refusal to turn over emails that …

September 15, 2014
Sunday's catch

September 14 dock totals Fisherman's Landing 109 Anglers, 4 Boats, 33 Yellowtail, 628 Yellowfin Tuna, 4 Calico Bass, 43 Bonito, 3 Rockfish, 4 Sculpin, 54 Dorado H&M Landing 392 Anglers, 15 Boats, 121 Skipjack Tuna, …

September 15, 2014
Lead candy web page launch

The Environmental Health Coalition, a local advocacy group most recently involved in the unsuccessful attempt to implement a community plan update in Barrio Logan and a push to improve transit options in SANDAG's plan to …

September 15, 2014
Early Look: Lightning tasting room

Jim Crute was almost giddy — well, about as animatedly giddy as an analytical science guy like him can get — as he opened the door to the business suite next to his Lightning Brewery …

September 15, 2014
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