Forget the advice a recent Slate.com article proclaimed that flooding a neighborhood with bars and restaurants is good for local businesses, creates jobs and promotes social interaction. Peope in Normal Heights are grumbling about the parking problems that the new Heights Tavern is creating on Adams Avenue. Already the Ould Sod is two doors over and Rosie O'Gradys in katycorner at Adams and 34th. And soon the old Lou Jones bar, which has been sold, will be replaced by a new bar right next door to the Heights. The Adams Avenue Business District (BID) thiinks it's got it all figured out. But the grumbling gets louder and louder.
And dont' forget there are two new wine bars on Adams in Kensington and the new Soda and Swine meatball haven at the corner of Adams and 3oth in North Park. — April 5, 2013 10:56 a.m.
San Diego County Water Authority manipulates grand jury
You're right, Janemack ! What 10 North County districts are beginning to do independently with recycled water is a very hopeful sign. They're realizing it's a shame to send so much wastewater out to sea when it could be used to irrigate avocado and other crops. Looks like they won't need the imprimatur of the Water Authority to do it either.— June 29, 2013 4:41 p.m.
neighborhoods/normal-heights -- Normal Heights
Forget the advice a recent Slate.com article proclaimed that flooding a neighborhood with bars and restaurants is good for local businesses, creates jobs and promotes social interaction. Peope in Normal Heights are grumbling about the parking problems that the new Heights Tavern is creating on Adams Avenue. Already the Ould Sod is two doors over and Rosie O'Gradys in katycorner at Adams and 34th. And soon the old Lou Jones bar, which has been sold, will be replaced by a new bar right next door to the Heights. The Adams Avenue Business District (BID) thiinks it's got it all figured out. But the grumbling gets louder and louder. And dont' forget there are two new wine bars on Adams in Kensington and the new Soda and Swine meatball haven at the corner of Adams and 3oth in North Park.— April 5, 2013 10:56 a.m.
San Diego State's growing contempt for undergrads
Interesting. I had a conversation with Steve Erie the other day, the director of the Urban Studies program at UCSD. Erie tells me that UCSD's chancellor is making noises about moving in the direction of more attention to undergraduate education, and that the Urban Studies program might play a role in that move by helping generate more university involvement in local communities. If that goes very far, as Erie expressed it, then both SDSU and UCSD would be changing the directions that the Master Plan originally gave them.— April 1, 2013 7:42 p.m.
San Diego State's growing contempt for undergrads
Visduh's contention that the story is actually two stories would be true if the perspectives of the two main characters did not oppose each other over the role and value of research on campus. Besides Sussman's complaint about one conflict with administration, he makes a rather strong case for the way research is pursued for the most part at SDSU. And his position is that research adds to the strength of the university, including the way "hands-on" participation in research benefits undergraduates. Gerber does not devalue research per se, only the concentration of it in the joint Ph.D. programs. This, and the way SDSU promotes being a research university rather than the teaching university the Master Plan called up the CSUs to be, is the backbone of his critique. When you toss in the issue of limited access for qualified local students, the situation begins to look even more unbalanced. Where I definitely agree with Visduh is in his call for more attention to how all the emphasis on the Ph.D. programs is taking resources away from undergrads. Besides the sheer strain of extra work for faculty involved in both graduate and undergraduate education. there is bound to be more to learn about the drawbacks. Then again, Sussman and other faculty might be able to point our how having Ph.D. students on campus benefit undergrads.— April 1, 2013 6:32 p.m.
A raccoon family comes to live with an Ocean Beach family
Thanks for all the comments about property managers. Visduh, it seems that just about everybody in San Diego these days has a story or two about raccoons. I wonder if they've always been around locally in as many numbers as they are today, or are they like crows who have invaded the city to scavenge the waste of growing numbers of human inhabitants?— August 8, 2012 1:05 p.m.