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
Over 50 years of Gary Kelley’s voice in San Diego
What a great way to reconnect to my youth and the music of that era. Left feedback on Kelley’s website and got response to my surprise. He even helped me set up my Alexa device so I can listen with just a voice command at home. Many many memories of a time long long ago. If you have a chance, download app or just listen at their website ….thevoiceofsandiego.com. Yeah, I was confused about that too, but the local non-profit is a dot ORG http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2022/o…— October 28, 2022 6:12 p.m.
Some Point Loma streets fixed, others ignored
The policy refers to 53 miles of streets all over the urban areas of the city. The reality is homeowners living on these unimproved or partially improved streets don’t want to pay 50% of the cost to bring the street up to city standards. In fact, the Wooded area with their partially improved streets has used them as a selling point regarding the *character* of the neighborhood. Taxpayer dollar are used to maintain improved streets. Developers pay to build streets in the first place and recover their costs when selling lots and homes. But these streets were never built to city standards in the first place. But now some complain as the unimproved streets are worse as the city has been replacing water and sewer lines. Seems some are never happy and believe they are entitled even though the initial development chose not to improve the streets.— February 6, 2020 12:11 p.m.
Some Point Loma streets fixed, others ignored
***From an article regarding unimproved streets in 2012. This isn’t a new issue.*** City of San Diego Council Policy 200-03, ***from 1974 says***, “there are approximately 53 miles of unimproved streets in use and a sizeable portion of this inventory provides access to property in the urbanized areas. In addition, there are many more miles of street where existing improvements are not up to modern standards. These streets are in areas that were subdivided many years ago before street improvements were required in connection with subdivision development.” Santacroce added that “the City’s resurfacing program is limited to improved streets and partially improved streets … the responsibility to improve the road belongs to the adjacent property owners. Once a public street or alley is improved to current standards, the City will maintain it to the same standard as other streets within the improved street network, given available funding. The City does provide minor pavement repair for unimproved roads and alleys, such as pothole repair and hazardous patching to make them passable for vehicular traffic.” Read the policy yourself.... https://docs.sandiego.gov/councilpolicies/cpd_200…— February 5, 2020 6:34 p.m.
San Diego's City College squeezes the adjunct profs
I see in an article posted in the SDUT on 2/4/20, the Chancellor has announced her retirement effective early next year. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/educati… Some might equate this as rats fleeing the sinking ship with their pension intact. Billions spent improving facilities where enrollment has been steadily declining. What’s needed now is new thinking and innovation. More tech and trades programs to replace the retiring generation of so called boomers. Those program involving “underwater basket weaving” courses just never paid off for those who took them.— February 4, 2020 8:54 a.m.
Some Point Loma streets fixed, others ignored
In most cases the predecessor owners CHOSE to have and keep the streets UNIMPROVED. There were a few factors: traffic, parking and most of all taxes. You see most, but certainly not all, of the Wooded Areas unimproved streets have larger than average lots and larger than average homes built on them. Thus they had and have larger than average tax bills. To combat the growing tax burden the owners elected not to have the streets improved some 60-70 years ago. But there are exceptions. For example Dudley is improved but adjacent streets, Charles and Warner are not. Dudley was recently resurfaced, the others were not. If those who say their streets should be resurfaced then they need to pony up the costs they and predecessor owners avoided. The trick, of course, is getting all of the residents on a block to agree. It's like hearding cats, but as these cowboys know, rewarding.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8— February 3, 2020 10:46 a.m.
Kevin Faulconer's homeless California roadshow
Hell will freeze over before California elects Fal-***CON***-er as its Governor. He’d be destroyed by his record, or should I say his lack of one. No, sadly, it’s more than likely Newsome will serve until he’s termed out. By then, Fal-***CON***-er will be remembered as the ***DO NOTHING*** Mayor the backwards Enron-by-the-Sea, San Diego.— February 1, 2020 8:56 a.m.
San Diego's City College squeezes the adjunct profs
The District Attorney’s Public Integrity Unit, now called Special Operations Division, is a joke, and has been a joke for years. It’s leader, Fiona Dunleavy, is worse, a bad joke. Another do nothing job staffed by six figure attoneys slapping each other on the back.— January 30, 2020 11:11 a.m.
San Diego's City College squeezes the adjunct profs
According to Transparent California Community College Chancellor Constance Carrol earned pay and benefits totaling $417,208.42 in 2018, the latest records available on the website. That’s nearly $35,000 a month, more than $1500 for the 22 working days each month. City College President Ricky Shabazz earned nearly $280,000 in pay and benefits for the same year. In facts if you examine the ***BLOATED LAYERS*** of management, none of which actually teach any students, then see their individual pay and benefits totals you will be shocked. Take a look at the 2018 salary records here: https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2018/s… Yet, as Swell points out, the solution to the districts financial problems is to ***CRUSH*** the staff having the biggest positive impact on the student. I’m just wondering what’s ***wrong*** with these so called educators?— January 30, 2020 8:12 a.m.
O.B. cop with a heart of gold
Technically, if he never left the store, there is no intent to permanently deprive, thus there is no corpus to the alleged crime. Technically speaking. Is this problem just another symptom of a festering problem? Sure is. Sadly we will all suffer the consequences of the overly lenient permissiveness. We cannot let the pendulum swing so far to the left that our culture accepts this behavior as the new normal.— January 13, 2020 8:29 p.m.
Jen Campbell constituents urged to email her
Classic politician....promise anything and everything to get elected, do a little here and there, but blame others for failure. Then work to get re-elected by making more unfulfilled promises, get termed out, run for higher office.— January 9, 2020 1:56 a.m.