Navarro has been out on the Trump stump, predicting that the Trump administration in waiting will retain the services of a trade negotiator who will confront the Chinese.
August 5, 2016
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Trump picks San Diego’s big-money garbage brain
Unusual pet fanciers
If I Had a Sledgehammer for a Nose, What Havoc Would I Wreak? I bought a pig because I wasn't ready for children. I wanted something small and helpless but something that wouldn't require college …
August 5, 2016
Too close to Rancho Santa Fe
Depending on who is telling the story, Darryl L. Hronek is either building storage for the business on his property or being harassed by a vindictive neighbor who is using the county's code enforcement unit …
August 5, 2016
Knitting the middlebrow
How do I know that I am, at heart, a middlebrow critic? Well, partly because I have yet to join my fellow critic Scott in his celebration of the Jackass franchise. But also because I …
August 5, 2016
Remembering Marilyn Monroe on the anniversary of her death
It was 54 years ago today that Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her apartment of an apparent overdose. Suicide? Murder? Accident? Joe Kennedy? The debate rages to this day as the legendary sex symbol …
August 5, 2016
Port District goes after parking scofflaws
The Port of San Diego on Thursday (August 4) unveiled plans to increase the cost of parking at a handful of locations under Port control. The proposal, outlined at a sparsely attended public outreach forum, …
August 5, 2016
San Diego’s only dedicated chicken-and-waffles restaurant
If you want to know about Da Chicken Coop, there is only one question that matters: How does it stack up against Roscoe’s? Aw, stop groaning. You have to ask. There is no other metric …
August 5, 2016
Felt a bump at Bay Park McDonald’s
A 49-year-old woman is in serious condition at a local hospital after she was run over by a car in the parking lot of a restaurant Thursday night, August 4, in San Diego’s Bay Park …
August 5, 2016
Dead and Company rock-roll in Sleep Train
“Shakedown Street” is one of the Grateful Dead's funkiest songs, and it’s also the name given to the funky traveling market that has been springing up in the parking lot at Dead shows for decades. …
August 5, 2016
Half-hour of free Descendents therapy
The first Descendents album since 2004’s Cool to Be You blasts out of the gates with a pristine five-song run of classic ‘Dents goodness. The cream of the crop is “Victim of Me,” an 97-second …
August 5, 2016