Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Billionaire Democrat's Balboa Park plan revived by GOP mayor
Don't forget how much extra money Jacobs and the city are going to have to pitch in to make up for the loss of federal funds. They were warned their plans would so fundamentally alter the Central Mesa that Balboa Park that it will lose its national historic designation. Guess charging parking will make up for that? Oh wait, no: because it will be just like the North Park garage--everyone will park for free in the neighborhood (Banker's Hill) instead. Jacobs found Balboa Park a city of museums, and he left it a circus.— July 1, 2016 4:01 p.m.
Liberals spending
Still more money probably than the SD Democratic Party paid to support Ed Harris. Francine Busby had one job to do: keep Harris alive past the primary so he could catch the draft down ticket in November. No other local race was as in question or as important. So now rather than have a chance at a Dem mayor in a Dem majority city in a Dem favored presidential election, Busby ensured that the Lincoln Club's puppet will keep pushing through the pro-developer and pro-hotelier interests at the expense of the people for at least another four and a half years. Progressives better get used to failure if her and her advisors are allowed to stay.— June 29, 2016 11:21 a.m.
Roseville neighbors protest towering duplexes
Linney is right about campaign contributions buying blind eyes at City Hall. But with $50K checks? Hell, San Diego pols will sell you out for a tenth to a third of that! Look over the political contributions from developers, http://nf4.netfile.com/pub2/Default.aspx?aid=CSD. Deals worth millions that deprive the public of land and land rights often go for only a few $1-5K donations. The problem isn't only that they're whores, but that they're such cheap whores.— June 26, 2016 11:15 a.m.
Aguirre sues governor over records
Finally! I don't care what good Brown has done to 'turn around' California; the cost to us for his crony coddling will be his real legacy. In a perfect world, the Feds would have come in long ago and got them all under RICO. But in ours, at least we have Aguirre. And we can only hope this keeps Harris from getting to the Senate.— May 6, 2016 10:03 a.m.
Show us the numbers, Civic San Diego
Any theft over $950 or vandalism over $400 done by an individual is a felony. But get together your friends to do both--so long as some are in government--and hundreds of millions can be pocketed scot-free. God bless 'Murica— May 4, 2016 9:55 a.m.
Where are the cops when you need them in Ocean Beach?
It's clear that Mayor Foulconjobber is doing what his 1% masters demand. Why should *their* tax dollars pay for police service for everyone? It's far more cost effective and personally satisfying for them to pay for private security to patrol only their demesnes and have accountability only to them.— May 2, 2016 11:41 a.m.
San Diego cops a deal for online espionage
And at its logical conclusion, you can be sure that when the government wants to convict you of a crime, they can produce all the evidence they want, whether it's true or not, and you will have no resources to dispute it. Doubleplusungood!— April 15, 2016 5:30 p.m.
San Diego cops a deal for online espionage
Another pickaxe hack at "reasonable expectation of privacy." Of course, zero chance it works both ways and We The People are allowed to see the police body camera video we pay for.— April 15, 2016 3:05 p.m.
Police dust-up with family a sizable can of worms
Finally. Now we can expect that the civic brigands who normally play blackjack with our tax dollars will realize this is yet another case that will only end up costing the city more in money and bad press, and instead settle while the damages are still reasonable and determine to become better stewards of the public good. Ha, April Fools!— March 31, 2016 3:18 p.m.
Did citizens lose when Councilman McCann won?
To Ponzi and the author: I have also been a poll worker for over a decade. Each of us is told, after explaining the particulars of any precinct's ballot, to never turn any voter away who has no time to look up or go where they *should* vote. If they can't remember their previous registered address, they are told to fill in as much information as they can — such as an SSI or CA driver's license number. Ponzi is likely aware of this, and it is key to understanding the problem. Ms. Luzzaro's article makes clear the lawsuit turned on the following point: *"In 2014 McCann won by two votes the city council seat contested between him and former Chula Vista mayor Steve Padilla: McCann had 18,448 to Padilla’s 18,446. With the assistance of attorney John Moot, **Clark sued the County Registrar of Voters and McCann in an effort to ensure provisional votes were counted**."* In other words, this race was decided by **two votes out of 39,894**. The plaintiffs waged suit for the Registrar of Voters to account for all of the provisional ballots impacting this election. Again, as the original U-T article stated: *"The suit said the law and guidelines for elections officials say those votes should be counted, because the signature is the key data point....The ruling was two-fold — that the registrar has some discretion to interpret election law the way it’s written and that a voter’s residence address is particularly important in elections for determining when an individual has a right to vote."* There was a difference of 0.00001 percent, and Judge Sturgeon rushed to pull the curtain back across the Great and Powerful Oz. The plaintiffs don't need to establish the standing of some forlorn citizen with a tear-off tab. The Registrar refused to account for provisional ballots that met their own defining criteria for valid ballots: Were all the voter signatures from persons legally registered who had not voted elsewhere? How anyone who has sworn the same oaths to the Constitution as a poll worker that I have (and, apparently, Ponzi) can explain away this problem is beyond me.— March 25, 2016 2:46 a.m.