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By Bill Swank The euphemism "landfill" entered our language in 1916, but its usage was not popularized until the late 1940s. In 1957, the City of San Diego planned to turn Tecolote Canyon into a...

  The Greek philosopher Plato noted, "The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards..." Hindus believe that wings symbolize freedom. In Pre-Columbian cultures, wings represented flight from one world to another. Wings are the logo...

When Christopher Columbus invaded the Western Hemisphere, the natives were not pleased to greet him as previously reported. Was it Machiavelli or Winston Churchill... or Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring who said, "History is...

Did you know the east side of Morena Boulevard has been rezoned for a trailer park from Balboa to Milton? DeFalco’s will build a new grocery store at the bottom of Clairemont Drive. The...

The Clairemont Town Council recently forwarded a message about plans for a 2020 ground breaking to modernize the Lindbergh Schweitzer Elementary School site. There is also a movement to rename the school: The site governance...

Boo! It's Halloween. By Bill Swank Pumpkins, goblins, witches, you know the drill.  Let's do, "The monster mash, it was a graveyard smash." I don't like chainsaw, zombie, vampire, extraterrestrial, alien, ghost, werewolf, axe murder, walking dead, serial...

Robert Garcia (97) and Stuart Hedley (95) are a couple of old salts who, for over 45 years, have lived a few blocks from each other in North Clairemont. A few days before Thanksgiving,...

By Bill Swank When I began writing this column in 2014, my goal was to tap into the heart and soul of Clairemont. I've lived here for almost 60 years and frequently heard that Clairemont had...

Longtime Bay Ho resident Chuck Abdelnour served 28-1/2 years as San Diego City Clerk under a multifarious variety of mayors: Pete Wilson, Roger Hedgecock, Maureen O'Connor, Susan Golding, Dick Murphy and Jerry Sanders. Perhaps his...

It took 22 years for McDonald’s to turn a profit with vegan burgers in India. Judging from initial reaction to the June 17th opening of The Butcher N Cheese, customers immediately fell in love with...