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The Weekend Read – a gripping story of a Chula Vista kidnap

Editor's note. Toward the end of her research for this story, Laura McNeal was attending a hearing for the case in a San Diego courtroom. In a hearing break, a …

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This week's Weekend Read – an Arellano cartel kidnapping

In case you can't wait: this Friday's Weekend Read will feature Laura McNeal's gripping account of Eddy Tostado's kidnapping in Chula Vista. The story will go live on the San …

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San Diego lovers tell why they are still together

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San Diego blacks: what if I'd been white?

A whole different story if I'd been white Golden Age Garden Apartments (740 South 36th Street), built in 1983, has 76 apartments on its four floors. Requirements for obtaining an apartment here are that one …

January 20, 2024

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San Diego sidewalk sitters keep from shivering

How Do You Keep Warm at Night? If you think of the homeless at all — aside from how to avoid them or that daily mini-moral crisis as to whether to give them spare change …

December 16, 2023

From the archives Kearny Mesa

December 9, 2023

We work on Convoy Street, but we live all over

San Diego's Koreatown on Convoy StreetIf you walk into a restaurant with Lee Ann Kim, it is a bit like that fabulous and continuous shot by Martin Scorsese in Goodfellas. In the movie, Henry Hill …

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December 4, 2023

Normal Heights on its way back

Nowhere Zone“I’d been renting an apartment over on Georgia Street, the sort of border area between North Park and Hillcrest. From one month to the next, they raised my rent by $200. I’m a teacher …

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December 3, 2023

San Diego's rocks move all the time

More or Less Sudden MountainsLooking at the first of many instances of San Diego hydroseeding, across from Costco and Ikea along Friars Road, Deméré declared, "I don't mean to dis botany completely. I can appreciate …

From the archives Little Italy

December 2, 2023

Little Italy is more than a planter box

Condos Invade Little ItalyTen years ago, construction was completed on the Rob Quigley-designed La Pensione Hotel, which sits at the intersection of India and Date Streets in Little Italy. The four-story hotel, recalls Quigley, was …

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November 27, 2023

Padres bribe city council

Masters of DeceitPadres' bribes of councilwoman Valerie Stallings“On December 14, 1999, despite urgings from the San Diego Taxpayers Association and others to delay its vote, the city council voted to push ahead with bonds for …

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November 26, 2023

San Diego book clubs – only for girls?

San Diego book clubs – what's the point?Perhaps it’s the idea of the book club book that we find unbearable. It brings to mind that women’s marketing motto, “Pink it and shrink it.” Pink it: …

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From the archives Normal Heights

Normal Heights – it's not what you think

Nothing normal about Normal HeightsEveryone who lived on that stretch of 34th Street, between Meade and Monroe, was used to finding things on their lawn — condoms from hookers and their tricks, malt-liquor bottles, garbage, …

November 25, 2023

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What's going on with downtown San Diego's Horton Plaza?

What happened between 1985 and now?The future of Horton Plaza is so clouded that Jimbo’s, one of the mall’s newer tenants, has gone to court against the owner Westfield America over millions of dollars in …

November 20, 2023

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November 19, 2023

The pick-up scene that is Gaslamp

It's 9:30 p.m., and San Diego's Gaslamp crackles with anticipationThey’re all attractive young women dressed in Daisy Dukes and crop-tops or something similar. They dispense free-entry stamps to passersby in hope of getting a head …

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November 18, 2023

Downtown San Diego's homeless dream of Thanksgiving away from sidewalks

Homeless plans for Thanksgiving On a warm autumn afternoon, a homeless man lies against a wall on First Avenue just south of Ash Street. He's sharing a bottle of cheap vodka with an older homeless …

From the archives San Ysidro

November 13, 2023

San Ysidro – forgotten corner of San Diego

San Ysidro – where it's cheaper for kids to live in a motelWe pass the Las Americas Outlet Mall, where upscale shoppers and Border Patrol agents coalesce. It’s here, across the street, that a completely …

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November 12, 2023

9/11 bad guys hung out in San Diego

9/11 could have been stopped in San DiegoFormer FBI agent Mark Rossini, who was assigned to the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, said CIA officials blocked the memo to the FBI because the agency was complicit with …

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November 11, 2023

Deathly bike routes: Friars, Nimitz, Pershing

Dangerous bike spotsFriars Road, Nimitz Blvd, University Ave., Pershing Dr., Genesee, Pacific Hwy at Barnett Ave.Safer routes: SD River Trail, West Point Loma, Robinson, GovernorBy Dryw Keltz, Sept. 23, 2015The curvy road from Fallbrook to …

From the archives Solana Beach

November 6, 2023

The everlasting battle to save Solana Beach bluffs

Solana BeachWhat makes Solana Beach interesting for me is not only the Hispanic history, which infuses the area with words of Spanish origin: Rios, Cedros, and Granados (rivers, cedars, and pomegranate trees), but that the …

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