San Diego News and Local Media

2008 American Marketer of the Year Awards at San Diego W Hotel
 
 

The San Diego chapter of the American Marketing Association (SDAMA) celebrates the city’s top marketing professionals and students at the 2008 American Marketer of the Year (AMY) Awards on Thursday, May 22 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the San Diego W Hotel.
AMY Award nominations were accepted until May 9 for excellence in the […]

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San Diego 2007 Fire Blogging
 
 

Cat Dirt Sez is blogging the fire. Anyone else? Post your links.
http://catdirtsez.blogspot.com/
Added by sdguy: How you Can Help San Diego Fire Victims - a resource list

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San Diego News Break: La Jolla and Pacific Beach Communities in Crisis
 
 

San Diego news break: San Diego’s seemingly serene coastal communities of La Jolla and Pacific Beach were given a rude wakeup call this week with the Soledad Mountain Road landslide on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 and the following double-dose Pacific Beach water main breaks on Thursday, October 4, 2007. Whether the disastrous episodes are directly […]

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Day of Silence
 
 

If you like to listen to internet radio…  listen up.
That’s the Sound of Silence, and not in a Simon and Garfunkel kind of way, but rather in protest of the new high music royalties for Internet radio, established by the Copyright Royalty Board in March which could well put many small, non-commercial stations out of business– […]

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Big Boom!
 
 

We felt it in Carlsbad….   like the whole roof was going to come down on us!
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20070622-1302-spaceshuttle.html
If I’d known the shuttle was landing in Calif. I might have driven up to Edwards AFB to see it!
Did you feel the boom ??

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San Diego Real Estate on Wheels: RV Community in Question
 
 

Most people in San Diego agree on two local truths: San Diego is one of the greatest cities to live in the world, and San Diego sky-rocket real estate prices make living in San Diego a difficult privilege to maintain. These two truths intertwine to keep locals ever-searching for more and more money to keep […]

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Paris Hilton Behind Bars: Does San Diego Support or Condemn the Hotel Heiress?
 
 

San Diego is home to many Hilton Hotels across the county. But San Diego is most familiar with the ups and downs of one main Hilton, Paris Hilton. From reality TV to headline news, San Diego observes Paris Hilton’s unsimple life.

News Flash: the celebrity hotel heiress, Paris Hilton, […]

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Medical Marijuana Lights Up San Diego Schools
 
 

Grossmont Union High School District officials caught multiple San Diego students with medical marijuana cards on campus.
For decades, students have created excuses to get out of trouble, avoid blame, and explain school absence. From fake doctor notes to forged parent notes, students have used them all. But until now, proof of a […]

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Who Else Wants to Ban Smoking on San Diego Beaches?
 
 

Littering is a bad habit that disgusts me. When you litter, you ruin the local environment. San Diego beaches are the worst problem. Don’t mess with my beach litterbugs! I don’t understand how hard it is for people to find trashcans. Honestly, are they trying to ruin the environment?
The big drama on the […]

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Frankie Laine– Gone, but not forgotten
 
 

People think I’m weird because I read obituaries…  but you discover the most interesting things.  First off, although I’m a little young to have been a Frankie Laine fan, I’d certainly heard of him…  and apparently I’d heard him over the years, singing songs that have become classics.  I didn’t know he sang the theme song for Rawhide, […]

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Health Insurance, Required?
 
 

So, our governator wants to require everyone to have health insurance…..  
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a sweeping plan yesterday to extend health coverage to all Californians that would dramatically transform the state’s nearly $200 billion health care system.
“We have a good chance to make history and a model for the rest of the nation,” […]

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Local Blogger Makes the UT
 
 

Today the UT featured Leucadia blogger JP St Pierre in an article “Blogger Asks Surfer Friends to Go to the Polls.”  Citizen journalism at work!
JP recently posted comments here on our own SanDiegoBlog, check out the Leucadia blog if you haven’t already.

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Any Citizen Journalists in San Diego?
 
 

I don’t really consider myself a citizen journalist, but having taken a few journalism classes, and written a few articles for community newspapers, I find the subject fascinating.
If this is a topic that interests you, check out this video, “Citizen Journalism: From Pamphlet to Blog” over on Blip tv.
 and how many of you consider yourselves […]

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2006 Comic-Con Wrap
 
 

I just got back from the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con and it was awesome! It’d been a couple years since I was last there, but I was blown away by the quality of the panels that I went to.
I’ve posted my wrap-up on my website, which you can read here.
You can also check out my […]

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Save NPR and PBS (again)
 
 

This is from a Television Archiving list I’m on:
Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. But they’ve just voted to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS — unbelievably, starting with programs like “Sesame Street.”
Public broadcasting would lose nearly a quarter […]

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KPBS Full Focus: Public Square
 
 

Natalie Walsh sent us:
KPBS’s nightly news and public affairs TV show Full Focus has launched a new segment called Public Square - a place for San Diegans to deliver commentaries or essays on issues and idea that you are passionate about.  I invite you and your colleagues to consider delivering a commentary or essay on […]

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Blogging.la: LA Times disputes “Ten Facts About Illegal Immigration”
 
 

David Markland sent us: Blogging.la: LA Times disputes “Ten Facts About Illegal Immigration”
Can someone put your local right wing talk show hosts to task for either doing shoddy reporting or knowingly lying to their readers and listeners?
Roger Hedgecock
and
Rick Roberts
Regarding their ten facts about illegal immigrants they cite to the LA Times… a hoax they’re reposting […]

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BackPage.com + San Diego Reader + Coupons
 
 

Howie Rosen sent us: BackPage.com:
A few things that may be of interest: we’ve several new feeds including online coupons at http://www.sdreader.com/rss/
Also if you click San Diego on BackPage.com you’ll see what is to become a national launch of self posted coupons. There are over 300 local San Diego coupons to date!
hat tip

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Radica Radio Remote Broadcast from Chicano Perk, Tonight!
 
 

radioactivesd - Remote Broadcast from Chicano Perk, Tonight!
Tonight, join Radica Radio and Al uh Looyah as we pack up the trailer and roll down to Chicano Perk for their Spoken Word, open mic night.
If you’re in San Diego, come on down to Chicano Perk, 129 25th Street, and join us in person. If you can’t […]

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Vyuz’s Latest Seem To Have A Theme
 
 

David Moye sent us these Vyuz stories:
You may enjoy this story.
There’s a couple other stories on the website, you may find interesting as well.
smokinghotwaitress.com
Dear Jane, the sex columnist
hotel room nudes

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