Ramon Dorado adjusted the tassel on his graduation cap as he stood stiffly in front of a group of about 35 people he would soon lead 200 yards north to the U.S.-Mexico border. Flanked by …
March 15, 2014
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Second wave of Dreamers seeks asylum in Otay Mesa
Leucadia resident can’t replace stairway to sand
A long fight by a Leucadia homeowner to try to replace a private stairway to Beacons Beach ended sharply at the California Coastal Commission Thursday, March 13, with the commission rejecting the owner's appeal. "It …
March 14, 2014
Adams Avenue music festival only free to you and me
Adams Avenue Unplugged, the free music festival set for April 26 and 27 has launched a fundraiser on Kickstarter to help pay for the costs of the street fair, which takes over two miles of …
March 14, 2014
Plan presented for more Balboa Park cottages
A plan that would add five permanent cottages for ten countries to Balboa Park's House of Pacific Relations was sent back for revision Thursday, March 6, after a packed meeting that pitted a room full …
March 11, 2014
SENTRI pass border-crossers frustrated
Drivers coming north from Tijuana through the San Ysidro Port of Entry this week have been struggling to figure out the new route to the SENTRI lanes — a route that hasn't worked well for …
March 5, 2014
San Diego’s Marine Protected Areas surveyed
About 45 volunteers learned how to do surveys of the year-old Marine Protected Areas on February 8 at Scripps Oceanographic Institute and on the beach near the pier. San Diego Coastkeeper and Wildcoast, two clean-water …
February 11, 2014
Carlsbad's Palomar Airport readies for expansion
More than 100 people turned out for the first public workshop to write a new master plan for McClellan Palomar Airport on February 5, as the county works to draft an updated plan. The current …
February 11, 2014
Pio Pico power plant approved for Otay
Environmental health activists on February 6 decried the approval of the Pio Pico power plant by the California Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco the day before, saying that the fossil-fuel-burning plant isn't needed and …
February 8, 2014
Patch news lets go of many reporter-editors
On Wednesday, January 29, the new majority-owner of hyper-local news site Patch.com laid off all but one of its San Diego County reporter-editors, remaining editor Michelle Mowad confirmed. The layoffs include journalist Khari Johnson, whose …
January 31, 2014
Chula Vista park trail stuck in bureaucratic muck
The county and the Sweetwater Authority are still trying to figure out which agency is going to be responsible for moving a closed trail around a newly discovered patch of fairy shrimp, an endangered species. …
January 20, 2014
Zip-line races soon at Mission Beach’s Belmont Park
The California Coastal Commission on January 10 approved another attraction for Mission Beach’s Belmont Park — a 300-foot zip-line. The zip-line and a laser-tag arena that’s already approved and under construction, will be operational on …
January 17, 2014
Protest over Mission Trails mountain-bike trail closures
At least 500 mountain-bikers, hikers, and equestrians paraded through Mission Trails Regional Park on Saturday morning, January 11, to protest the closing of popular trails in the northeastern section of the well-used open-space area. "There's …
January 12, 2014
Federal Defenders fights to stop courtroom shackles in San Diego
Federal court requires defendants to be shackled; this is estimated as a presumption of guilt before before being found innocent, say some people.
January 8, 2014
SANDAG rejects damage claims of Imperial Beach residents
Five of the 20 Imperial Beach homeowners and groups that filed damage claims for the flooding that followed SANDAG's beach replenishment project were turned away on December 20. SANDAG's board voted that the five could …
December 28, 2013
Puddles mandate shuttles to Friendship Park Posada
County sewage-spill warning signs that say "keep out" were put up on Monument Road in Border Field State Park recently without the county's okay and without testing the puddles of water. The bright yellow warning …
December 23, 2013
Border Patrol training exercise moved up on schedule
With horses, shields, fake and real tear gas, and one biting dog, about 90 U.S. Border Patrol agents from the San Diego Sector trained for crowd and riot control atop Spooner's Mesa in the Tijuana …
December 15, 2013
Demonstrators back off near San Ysidro Port of Entry
This week, immigrant-rights activist Enrique Morones again praised the U.S. Border Patrol for the restraint they showed during the November 24 confrontation in the Tijuana River channel just east of the shopping malls. "They showed …
December 7, 2013
Fairy shrimp likely to close a Sweetwater Reservoir trail
More than 150 bicyclists, hikers, and equestrians heard less than good news Tuesday night, December 3, as the general manager of the Sweetwater Authority explained that a popular trail may be closed by the U.S. …
December 4, 2013
Border Patrol agents stop advancing crowd of 100
A lone U.S Border Patrol agent posted south of Camino de la Plaza near the shopping malls east of the San Ysidro port of entry Sunday found himself fending off a crowd of people running …
November 25, 2013
Latest San Ysidro transit center plan considered users
San Ysidro residents got their first look at the latest set of plans for a new transportation center at the San Ysidro border crossing on Wednesday night, November 13. Residents who gathered at the San …
November 15, 2013
Attorneys Gonzalez and Briggs reap big settlement from City of San Diego
The lawyers who launched the demise of mayor Bob Filner used Filner's final days in office to wrangle over the legal fees the city owed them for a lawsuit that blocked the dredging of the …
October 8, 2013