Border body snooping Mexican border crossers afoot at inspection gates in San Ysidro, Tecate, and Nogales, Arizona, will soon be the first guinea pigs in a test of the federal government’s latest high-tech snooping technology. …
October 27, 2021
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Toll Brothers, Brookfield, Monarch vie for Sports Arena property
Hot Rod Harris and Black Hesher survive after death
I found out my friend Tanner died from a Facebook post. The weird thing was, I had to scroll really far down through his timeline to discover his death, because posts had continued to appear …
October 27, 2021
The Great Kiwi Shut-Out
All my nephew William wants to do is go home. He can’t. He is my namesake and my nephew. The kid can cook. He’s from New Zealand, but spends half of each year working as …
October 27, 2021
Casa de Bandini blues
“Look! Look at this! Crumbling! And they’ve even taken the historical marker plaque off the wall.” This is my brother-in-law Fred, back in town, visiting the old family home. His family were Bandinis; their pride, …
October 27, 2021
Are Hermes handbags and Patek Philippe wristwatches considered Veblen goods?
Dear Hipster: Here is one thing that simply doesn’t make sense to me. So much of the hipster scene revolves around elevating supposedly “lowbrow” culture over what we might call “highbrow” culture. But at the …
October 27, 2021