The intrigue surrounding the City of San Diego's abrupt switch to a new campaign finance disclosure website has deepened with the partial rejection by city officials of a request for public records that might shed …
June 14, 2021
News & Stories
San Diego website meltdown preceded by vendor spat, email shows
Wagyu Shawarma Grill takes trend to Rancho San Diego
The marketing cachet of Japanese-bred cattle seems to be rising. At least, I find myself writing about wagyu a lot more than I used to, as local restaurants and butcher shops embrace the notoriously marbled …
June 14, 2021
Popeyes' Lemon Grove success – and its detractors
This month, those who live in Lemon Grove were soured by the grand opening of a Popeyes restaurant. "Just two days open has already made it impossible to navigate the parking lot by Bank of …
June 14, 2021
Tijuana elections: severed heads in a box and foam cooler, chopped torso in a bag
Last Sunday, Baja California held one of the biggest elections in its history. Mayors' positions for Tijuana, Tecate, Mexicali, Rosarito, and Ensenada were in dispute, plus state governor and deputies. More than 4,800 polling places …
June 14, 2021
Summer opens with 14 hours of daylight
Crape Myrtles are in bloom around San Diego this month through the end of summer. This smallish, vase-shaped tree blossoms in colors ranging from white or pale pink to lavender, red, and blue. Lilac of …
June 14, 2021
The art of heart surgery, Grossmont Hospital's interns, a skeptical patient
Heart Man They were trying to distract me from the fact that Koumjian had now installed a rack of metal onto the patient's chest and was separating his rib cage with the thing by cranking …
June 14, 2021