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A historic mystery with a happy ending

Imagine being tasked with demolishing and reconstructing a 14-story historic building in downtown San Diego in one year without any access to the building before construction.

May 17, 2013

Ma, they’re sending me to ‘Nam

One of the treasures of aging is recognizing frequent paradox and irony. Paradoxes provide a visceral education in the limits of our perception of truth. Makes us humble and therefore open to learning. Ironies teach us that no one deserves anything. Expectations are routinely thwarted in creative and often humorous ways.

May 17, 2013

Cubic stays on independent course

Back in 1959, the electronic and aerospace industry in San Diego was dominated by giant General Dynamics. That year a small “black box” manufacturer took the leap to go public.

May 16, 2013

A small business: for love and money

This is a shout-out for some of my favorite small businesses and their owners, people who give a good name to enterprise and care about their customers. These are businesses where you know the owner on sight and every customer counts.

May 16, 2013

Deploy social media for daily business outreach

What do you do every day to build attraction and brand?

May 15, 2013

A brief history of slimy Dem snoops

It's always the "low-level" peon's fault, isn't it? When Democrats get caught red-handed abusing government powers and bullying their political enemies small and large, nobody at the top knows nuttin'. The buck stops ... in the janitor’s closet or something.

May 15, 2013

Construction unions losing fight for labor agreements

California’s so-called prevailing wage laws governing public construction are achingly complicated and have an inordinate negative effect on costs.

May 14, 2013

San Onofre, Hanford help fuel anti-nuke initiative

The operators of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Station and the nuclear waste reservation at Hanford, Wash., could not be doing more if they actually wanted to promote a prospective ballot initiative aimed at keeping San Onofre offline and also shutting down Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s Diablo Canyon power plant.

May 14, 2013
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