Poet Laureate looks at Tijuana, truthful woman in 1893, Lester Bangs, Christian Coalition
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Mayor O'Connor's husband, Robert O. Peterson, founder of the Jack-in-the-Box fast-food franchise, is 30 years her senior.
DESPITE LEGAL RESTRICTIONS or bans in all states but Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Louisiana, cockfighting “has never been bigger,” according to HSUS [Humane Society of the United States] investigator Eric Sakach. An estimated 1,000 people breed fighting cocks in San Diego County, Calif., alone.
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The Animals' Agenda May 1991
THE LIGHT HURRIED ACROSS the town and Glen Collins saw the spreading Pacific Ocean, the sailing ships in the port.
He took a deep breath and stretched the morning’s chill from his muscles. San Diego would be a great city someday. And maybe, if he won the election and became its first sheriff, he could do his part to see that it became the kind of place where folks would stay and raise their families with pride. It would never be a rip-roaring railhead city like Dodge or Abilene. He’d seen those places and they offered no appeal. Those towns would blossom and die before they’d even lived. But here it was different; San Diego was already a hundred years old and founded by Junipero Serra as the Mother Mission of California — San Diego de Alcala. It had grown very slowly, but now, after a century, what was left was good and Collins knew that it was here he would plant his roots....