Political roller coaster The San Diego Coaster Company, which runs the city-owned Giant Dipper roller coaster and related Belmont Park amusements, paid $12,000 to Sacramento-based Axiom Advisors in the first three months of 2021. The …
July 21, 2021
News & Stories
Belmont Park coaster company pays Newsom’s fixer
San Diego State’s WWII letters
When the United States entered World War II, numerous San Diego State College (now University) students joined up and shipped out. Doctor Lauren Post, a professor of geography, recalled the loneliness he had felt while …
July 21, 2021
Slammed down by the bullring
At about sunset, I spotted AF at the end of Date Avenue in IB loading his 7’8″ Electric Duck surfboard into his van. “It’s shaped by Mike Richardson,” he said. “That board works real good …
July 21, 2021
Drive further north on I-5, Ian Anderson
Foodie Heaven Great article Mr. Anderson. (“Best San Diego food in most hidden corners, Cover Stories,” July 14) We here in Coastal North County also have our share of unconventionally stationed eateries. Keep your foot …
July 21, 2021
How do La Jolla Boulevard roundabouts rate?
We need Mr. Roundabout! Scott Ritchie has been called “The Roundabout Guy” ever since he started a company called “Roundabouts & Traffic Engineering” back in 1998. To most of us, the modest roundabout may still …
July 21, 2021
When Honus Wagner looked like Robert De Niro
Dear Hipster: Even if staying outside the mainstream and being countercultural is super important, it sure is exhausting keeping track of what’s hip and not hip, so that one knows where one stands in relation …
July 21, 2021