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Wednesday, June 5,2013
Editor's Note

Anders Wright and Peter Holslin leaving CityBeat

Longtimers on the way out; three new guys coming in

By David Rolland
This issue marks the final one with Peter Holslin as music editor and Anders Wright as film editor. I know!
Tuesday, February 12,2013
Editor's Note

The Dave Maass Era ends

Goodbye to perhaps San Diego’s best investigative reporter

By David Rolland
Lots of San Diegans have wanted Dave Maass to Shut! Up!—mostly those who find themselves in his argumentative crosshairs on Twitter. He certainly has a way about him.
Wednesday, November 7,2012
Editor's Note

Reunions and elections

My necessary weekend getaway to the past

By David Rolland
I’m sitting on a bench at my alma mater Calabasas High School. I’m looking over toward a walkway leading down from the softball field where I lost consciousness after Matt Behrens and I collided with each other on a pop fly.
Wednesday, October 10,2012
Editor's Note

Adios, Aaryn Belfer

One of our longtime columnists calls it quits

By David Rolland
Aaryn Belfer’s biweekly “Backwards & in High Heels” column first appeared in CityBeat’s Jan. 24, 2007. Her last column for us appears in this issue. 
Wednesday, October 10,2012
Editor's Note

Goodbye, Gloria Penner

KPBS icon’s impact on CityBeat

By David Rolland
San Diego lost one of its most well-known and important figures on Saturday, when journalist Gloria Penner succumbed to the cancer she’d been battling for more than a year.
Wednesday, September 19,2012
Editor's Note

Romney’s assault on government assistance

Add our voice to the chorus of commentary

By David Rolland
Romney said that 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax, and those are the people, he said, who are safely deposited in Barack Obama’s electorate bank.
Wednesday, August 29,2012
Editor's Note

Mike Aguirre, Jerry Sanders and CityBeat

Former city attorney rips us while the mayor honors us with a day of our own

By David Rolland
When Mike Aguirre was the city attorney in San Diego, he’d sometimes call me to talk excitedly about how CityBeat could help define a vision for future San Diego. I would enjoy those calls.
Wednesday, August 22,2012
Editor's Note

What grinds our gears

Our top 10 editorial passions

By David Rolland

Wednesday, March 14,2012
Editor's Note

A milestone and a crossroads

We’ve hit our 500th issue, and we need your help

By David Rolland
Ironically, thanks to a declining print-publishing industry in general and the worst economic downtown since the Depression, the better we’ve become, the more we’ve flailed financially.
Wednesday, March 7,2012
Editor's Note

UCAN’t be serious!

Don’t be too quick to judge amid allegations against utility antagonist

By David Rolland
If you made a list of all the prominent people in San Diego and ranked them according to how likely it would be that they’d be accused of cooking books, laundering money and improperly feathering their own nest, Michael Shames’ name would probably be near the bottom.
 
 
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