What San Diego Is: How ArtLabs Help Us Know
This weekend’s ArtLabs, spinoffs from the big contemporary art fair downtown, involve a ton of people, ideas and local artists. I asked Susan Myrland, ArtLabs curatorial director, to write about her...
View ArticleCall This Bike Advocate a Spokes-woman
In 2008, Samantha Ollinger and her husband mounted their bicycles in Philadelphia and pushed off toward a new home in San Diego. They pedaled about 2,000 miles before renting a U-Haul in Texas to...
View ArticleLetter: Improve San Diego in 2012
As we all know, 2012 is an election year. Already the rhetoric and debate on a regional level has zeroed in on a single issue at the near total exclusion of others: pension reform. At the same time,...
View ArticleBicyclists Don’t Feel Safe on SD’s Streets
Voice of San Diego’s “intrepid yet humble” Randy Dotinga recently raised our ire when he decided to pick on San Diego cyclists, including the 0.9 percent who regularly commute by bicycle. Instead of...
View ArticleMorning Report: A Big Move by Big Hotels
We’re asking our community to join forces in an unprecedented local effort to crowdfund Politifest 2012. We’ll have a mayoral debate, idea tournament, city 101 speed sessions, kid zone, live music,...
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Bike Sharing Is Coming to San Diego
San Diego will join the growing group of urban areas across the country and world with bike-sharing programs by next spring if an ambitious plan by Mayor Jerry Sanders comes to fruition. And his...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the Empty Desks
In the days before he took office, Mayor Bob Filner had plenty to say about neighborhood planning. He wants to make San Diego a more livable and walkable city and to fund updates to community plans....
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Morning Report: Redeveloping the Planning Process
It takes a long time and red tape-hopping to get a major development done in any San Diego community. Proposed developments have to match up with each neighborhood’s community plan. The process of...
View ArticleHow a Statewide Homeless ‘Bill of Rights’ Might Trip Up SD
A few local lawmakers and advocates who might not typically agree seem to be in accord on this: The “Homeless Person’s Bill of Rights” moving its way through the state legislature could dull some of...
View ArticleFilner’s Motto: May the Task Force Be With You
It seems Mayor Bob Filner never met a task force he didn’t like. Washington D.C. has its debt commissions and supercommittees, and San Diego is quickly racking up its own cadre of group initiatives....
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