AltWeeklies Wire
Meet Kleptomomnew
She’s strapped for cash and misses Mr. Moneybags.
San Diego Reader |
Elizabeth Salaam |
02-09-2015 |
Features
Noah Homes: An Upside to Down Syndromenew
The increased life expectancy rates for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities stands at the center of a funding struggle between the State of California and nonprofit organizations such as Noah Homes, a residential campus in Spring Valley with a waiting list 200 deep.
San Diego Reader |
Elizabeth Salaam |
04-02-2014 |
Features
E-Cigs Face Enormous Obstaclesnew
San Diego vaporizer salesmen see the devices as instrumental in weaning smokers from tobacco smoke. They refute the notion that “vaping” is attracting children. Legislators seem to be lumping the practice in with tobacco smoking and all its accompanying prohibitions.
San Diego Reader |
Dorian Hargrove |
01-15-2014 |
Health
Holiday in South Africa, 1986new
Author Patrick Daugherty writes about visiting Apartheid-era South Africa in 1986.
San Diego Reader |
Patrick Daugherty |
12-18-2013 |
Race & Class
We're Constantly in Fear: The Life of a Part-Time Professornew
Interviews with adjunct professors who realize that the colleges and universities that employ them never intend to give them tenure. Most teachers who make a living out of it have to hold down more than one job.
San Diego Reader |
Elizabeth Salaam |
12-18-2013 |
Education
San Diego overlords and unions — who can stop them?new
Organized labor does not play as big a role in other cities as it does in San Diego. Heywood Sanders, the nation’s expert on convention centers, says the labor/corporate welfare alliance has so much more clout in San Diego because the city is “politically disorganized and weak.”
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
10-02-2013 |
Business & Labor
We did it guerilla stylenew
Can’t tell the young guys from Stone Brewing, Saint Archer Brewing, or Rowlberto Productions a thing about entrepreneurialism. All have employed innovative ways of reaching their business goals, including launching their brand on Instagram.
San Diego Reader |
Siobhan Braun |
10-02-2013 |
Business & Labor
Thinking Flashes in the Sky: New-fangled aircraft or UFOs?new
On June 23, 1947, pilot Richard Rankin saw a fleet of ten aircraft that became known as the first “flying saucers.”
San Diego Reader |
Jeff Smith |
09-11-2013 |
Science
Narco Twitternew
Baja's TV networks can't keep up with its social networks.
San Diego Reader |
K. Mennem |
09-04-2013 |
International
San Diego, Haven for Pyramid Schemesnew
San Diego is a haven for multilevel marketing scams, which are often pyramid schemes.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
02-06-2013 |
Business & Labor
Not America's Sweetheartsnew
In silent movies, Mary Pickford was angelic — her Southern California admirers aren’t. Elizabeth and Thomas Coldicutt, helped by San Diegans, allegedly set up shell companies to lure investors.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
01-23-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Engineers dislike H-1B; bosses gloatnew
H-1B visa opponents say corporations such as Qualcomm are using the program to lower the prevailing wage for engineers and tech employees across the board.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
01-10-2013 |
Business & Labor
Does new UCAN board want reform?new
UCAN, the San Diego–based Utility Consumers’ Action Network, burdened by scandal and misuse of funds, should shut down, some say. Some say otherwise.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
01-02-2013 |
Policy Issues
We went to Mexico to get ahead. We smuggled cheese to get back.new
An American couple moves to Tijuana to avoid the high cost of living in the U.S. They become food smugglers for Mexicans living in the U.S.
San Diego Reader |
Steven Strasser |
12-20-2012 |
Immigration
ResMed: Please refuse to play the subsidy gamenew
Sleep-apnia device-maker ResMed threatens to leave San Diego because CEO says it’s too hard to run a business in California. Valid gripe or jobs blackmail for taxpayer funds?
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
12-20-2012 |
Economy
