City Lights
Local golf industry takes a right hook to the snout.
Welfare for corporations is one of our most rancid economic problems. Who is to blame? Surprise! Alexander Hamilton, our first secretary of the treasury. He is beloved on Broadway these days, but Appalachian moonshiners may …
City Heights was supposed to have a skate park by now. While construction of one free-to-use municipal skate park is now nearing completion and another is slated to open in 2017, District 9 councilwoman Marti …
John Sarkisian is an establishment darling. He is one of the purported economic experts interviewed regularly for the Union-Tribune’s “EconoMeter” feature. He is founder and vice chairman of Carlsbad’s Pro Performance Sports (doing business as …
Lights, traffic among residents’ objections to the school’s plans
Stocks of two of San Diego’s most-admired companies have dropped sharply from their all-time highs around $100. One, Qualcomm, dropped around 90 percent before recovering, but the plunge took place long ago, in the early …
Murky financial reporting from San Diego’s former redevelopment agency.
Convadium con is a variation on the convention center sham.
Residents in Mission Beach are accusing a La Jolla–based developer of using outdated maps and other tricks to try and skirt local planning laws and to avoid building a community park. They claim that doing …
The local avocado industry takes more bruising.
Who’s killing the great parrots of Ocean Beach/Point Loma?
“Knowledge transfer.” It’s a scholarly sounding name for a vile practice that is stealing jobs from American engineers and forcing those soon-to-be-laid-off tech employees to train their foreign replacements. If American workers refuse to teach …
To pay salaries and stay afloat, Civic San Diego relies on the revenues it receives from issuing permits and approving development projects in downtown San Diego. The nonprofit oversees the dissolution of San Diego’s former …
Why is Chula Vista's jail filled with young Hispanic women?
Anybody looking forward to Super Bowl LXXX? You could build a stadium for a sport that doesn’t exist.
Spanos poured gas on the bridge while his jilted lover traveled across it.