Standing in the Tierrasanta parking lot where we’d agreed to meet, I spy David Warren Goodknife down in an adjacent canyon — one of several that carve through the sleepy suburban neighborhood. He’s collecting wild …
July 31, 2024
Articles by A.J. Herrington
Night in a sweat lodge near Gopher Canyon
Mission Valley – garden-land gave way to shopping centers
The never-ending fix to Hazard Center Drive Hazard Center Drive in Mission Valley East is probably the shortest road incurring the longest completion of any in San Diego. It is approximately three blocks long and …
May 11, 2020
We All Counted homeless in Mission Valley
During the early morning hours of January 26th, more than 1500 volunteers fanned out across the county to conduct the annual We All Count census of homeless San Diegans. In Santee and Mission Valley, the …
January 29, 2018
Cheers for badger den near Julian
As I glance in the passenger-side rearview mirror, a dusty plume billows behind us, brightly lit by the low morning sun. Next to me in the driver’s seat, Shannon Quigley-Raymond guides her car along winding …
October 15, 2017