The rights of a private business came head-to-head with the state agency that regulates liquor sales last Wednesday, April 22, in San Marcos. Socal Gas & Car Wash, LLC, doing business as Arco AM/PM at …
April 28, 2015
News & Stories
Some seniors seek easy access to suds
Water deal with Imperial Valley on the line
San Diegans haven't awakened to a major water-supply peril: the possibility that a 2003 deal arranged to bring water from the Imperial Valley could be in deep trouble. A May 4 New Yorker article says …
April 28, 2015
May Day: Need more beer!
May 1 & 2 | Beer to the Rescue Fundraiser: The Lupus Foundation of Southern California is kicking off Lupus Awareness Month with two days of beer-release action at Coronado Brewing Company‘s mainland brewery and …
April 28, 2015
It's Kilroy, from L.A. We're suing again.
The cost incurred by the City of San Diego over the proposed mixed-use development in Carmel Valley, One Paseo, is increasing. The city has been slapped with a third lawsuit over the now-overturned development. On …
April 28, 2015
What’s in a name? Pastrami on rye
I’ve been seeing a lot of house-cured pastrami popping up around town — at Counterpoint, in the food truck New York on Rye, and at the Heart & Trotter butcher shop for example. I don’t …
April 28, 2015
Picked at and peeved
State and federal investigators are looking into whether critical decisions of the California Public Utilities Commission were made in secret by Michael Peevey, retired president of the regulatory body. Now, a group known as Protect …
April 28, 2015
Right kind of mindless
Clarice Starling: “Most serial killers keep some sort of trophies from their victims.” Hannibal Lecter: “I didn’t.” Clarice: “No. You ate yours.” Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs can be funny, in a ghoulish sort …
April 28, 2015
Faulconer's big-money re-election bid
San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, an ex–public relations man, has hit the road again, this time to Sacramento to garner publicity for himself and his water proposals in a high-profile meeting with Democratic governor Jerry …
April 28, 2015
Celebration of sex and gambling
I thought I was the first guy to have a 10-hours-long sexual encounter with the goddess Venus herself. As it turns out, I’m 800 years late, since someone shared just such an experience in the …
April 28, 2015
At least Lorena is trying
A bill that seeks to require state oversight on utility executive bonuses is working its way through the Sacramento legislature. Assembly Bill 1266, introduced by local assemblywoman and onetime labor leader Lorena Gonzalez, would require …
April 28, 2015
Yesterday's rail hefts
April 27 dock totals 11 anglers aboard the Chubasco II 1/2 day am run caught 1 sand bass, 1 yellowtail, 39 calico bass, 1 lingcod and 5 rockfish. The Pronto 3/4 day run with 12 …
April 28, 2015