Hope, it seems, springs eternal in the minds of Oscar Goodman, the attorney-to-the-mob turned mayor of Las Vegas, and Padres owner John Moores. Goodman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal last Friday that he and Moores …
November 18, 1999
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Stories by James Kelleher
Oscar Goodman and John Moores looking to move the Houston Rockets to Las Vegas
John Moores proves the lie to San Diego Union editor memo
When Karin Winner, the top editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, issued a memorandum in September discouraging newsroom employees from attending media parties because she said the events compromised the U-T's integrity, bullshit detectors went …
October 7, 1999
Porn fan Jeff Clayton part of Christian band the Savior Machine
Buck Narrows is a musician with a cockeyed sense of calling. Armed with a guitar, a wah-wah pedal, and a brain a bit below his belt buckle, Narrows has set out to create a get-down …
September 30, 1999
Democratic Socialists meet in shadow of San Diego GOP convention
Three years ago this summer, when the Republican National Convention came to town to nominate Bob Dole and try to breathe life into the GOP's blue-lipped effort to reclaim the White House, San Diegans witnessed …
August 26, 1999
Cleveland Forest Pine Creek cabins on endangered list
About a dozen federally protected endangered species, including the southwestern willow flycatcher and the Laguna Mountains skipper butterfly, live in the Cleveland National Forest, the 424,000-acre woodland preserve that stretches across the rugged backcountry of …
July 29, 1999
San Diego Union-Tribune wants to push circulation to 400K
The San Diego Union-Tribune has launched what its top brass is calling a "major initiative" to boost circulation at the paper, which serves America's sixth-largest city but barely makes the top-20 list nationally in terms …
May 6, 1999
Lance Cottrell, La Mesa's CEO of Anonymizer.com, lets you search web privately
Lance Cottrell, the CEO of Anonymizer.com, a La Mesa-based Internet service that masks the identities of its users while they are on the World Wide Web, wasn't always obsessed with online privacy. In fact, the …
April 29, 1999
Winona Martin, owner of two San Diego tattoo parlors, gets heat in Arkansas
You'd think that after three decades of Bill and Hillary Clinton, the people of Arkansas would be pretty tuckered in the outrage department. But Winona Martin, the owner of two San Diego tattoo parlors, recently …
April 22, 1999
San Diego's Bill Cheek arrested by feds for selling unscrambling devices to undercover cops
Bill Cheek has been fiddling around with radio equipment and monitoring the airwaves in one way or another since the 1950s, when, as a kid, he pried open a brand-new transistor receiver, tinkered with the …
April 15, 1999
California Department of Fish and Game's South Coast Region missing money
State investigators are looking into "irregularities" in the sale of hunting and fishing licenses in the California Department of Fish and Game's South Coast Region, which is run out of headquarters here in San Diego. …
April 1, 1999
SimplyStocks.com tries giving stock away
To Jay Lacny, it was a simple plan designed to promote his new financial website and "raise the eyebrows" of his online competitors. The effort succeeded in raising eyebrows, all right. Unfortunately, they belonged to …
March 25, 1999
Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire has legal battle in San Diego
Mark McGwire, the Cardinals slugger who hit a record 70 home runs last season, isn't scheduled to visit San Diego until mid-May, when the Padres host St. Louis in a three-game series. But McGwire's lawyers …
March 11, 1999
Environmentalists in Portland, Oregon, say Audrey Geisel has gone too far
Just in time for what would have been Dr. Seuss's 95th birthday last week came the latest controversy over his widow Audrey's marketing of the late child author's image and work. During his life, Seuss, …
March 11, 1999
San Diego Union-Tribune walks away from labor talks
Anyone who has passed through the San Diego Union-Tribune during Gene Bell's stint as publisher has heard the mantra, the talk of management's intention to take things at the paper "to the next level." Harmless …
March 4, 1999
San Marcos' Matt McMullen makes life-sized rubber dolls
Matt McMullen says he was just an artist looking for an appreciative audience two years ago when he posted some snapshots of his female sculptures on the Internet. The online exposure generated a lot more …
February 18, 1999