I attend Wednesday’s San Bernardino City Council meeting to get reaction to the election, in which one incumbent was re-elected and three went down in flames. Also: I cast my ballot Sunday at Fairplex, and a barista grabs a newspaper. Read all about it in my Friday column.
Category Archives: Around San Bernardino
Column: In SB, broken street lights, broken cameras
A couple of startling statistics from San Bernardino, both related: only four of the city’s 95 street cameras are working and 700 street lights are out. I shed some light on this state of affairs in my Friday column.
Column: Writer shares his own San Bernardino pioneer tales
Nick Cataldo has been writing about San Bernardino history for decades, including almost 26 years for The Sun, where his column began in March 1998. He and I had lunch recently to talk shop. I brought my notebook just in case, and when he started telling me about how he got to San Bernardino, I picked up my pen. Seemed a shame to let his story go to waste, you know? He’s the subject of my Sunday column.
Column: LBJ’s time in SB had its ups and downs
Lyndon Johnson lived in San Bernardino in 1925, working as a law clerk and an elevator operator. This is kind of mind-boggling. In 1964, as president, LBJ made a return visit and gave a speech outside the office building where he’d worked nearly four decades earlier — and also operated the elevator one last time. I tell that story in my Friday column.
Column: Top agenda item for SB mayor: giving birth
Mayor Helen Tran was very pregnant at Wednesday’s San Bernardino council meeting and told me she would be giving birth to her fourth child “any day now.” That was just one of the highlights of the meeting, the subject of my Sunday column.
Column: Walls are coming down at Carousel Mall
Demolition of San Bernardino’s Carousel Mall is very visible now that crews and equipment are dismantling the exterior walls. They’d spent months clearing the interior, work that was the hardest part but was largely unseen. In other San Bernardino news, the man who may have done more than anyone to get the city’s name out worldwide has retired. Both these items make up Sunday’s all-Berdoo column.
Column: SB meeting goes to the dogs (and cats)
I make my triumphant (?) return to San Bernardino City Council coverage with my Sunday column, which begins with an adopt-an-animal display outside the meeting hall and slips in a few dog and cat references as appropriate.
Column: On crime beat, Luis Rodriguez was always writing
I interview writer Luis J. Rodriguez about the unexpected start to his literary career: covering crime in San Bernardino for The Sun. “It was a great news town,” he says. That’s my Wednesday column.
Column: ‘Our Common Foe’ art show targets warehouses
Remember the anti-warehouse art in The Cheech’s community gallery this spring? The “Burn Them All Down” artist has curated a show at San Bernardino’s Little Gallery on the same theme. I attend the opening and talk to the artists for Friday’s column.
Column: Preservation grant to aid Mitla Cafe in paint, repairs
The famed San Bernardino restaurant, in business since 1937, is one of 25 legacy restaurants around the nation to get a $40,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for exterior upgrades. I visit for my Sunday column.