Ron Donoho

Feb 5, 2025 | thesandiegosun.com | Ron Donoho

The city of San Diego abruptly pulled the plug on funding that allowed Fifth Avenue to be a car-free pedestrian walkway for seven blocks in the Gaslamp Quarter. The move is being roundly criticized by area merchants who say blocking the street to cars was good for business.

Jan 16, 2025 | thesandiegosun.com | Ron Donoho

Every one of the 250 seats in San Diego’s City Council Chamber was filled mid-afternoon on Wednesday, January 15. It was a capacity crowd – yet an infinitely smaller venue compared to previous sites where Mayor Todd Gloria has delivered his annual State of The City speeches. Why was the mayor’s most important annual address piggybacked at the end of a council meeting? In recent years it’s been held as an evening fete at the 1,339-seat Balboa Theater and the Civic Theatre, which holds 2,967.

Nov 20, 2024 | ranchandcoast.com | Ron Donoho

Print Title "You’ve Got a Friend in SLO"Published Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Featured Photo Located in the heart of downtown San Luis Obispo, the historic Fremont Theater was built in 1941Image Credits Courtesy Photography Remember when you went off to college and met a friend for life? That’s how I feel about San Luis Obispo, an open-armed town in Central California that everybody calls SLO. Just off Highway 1, SLO is the home of California Polytechnic State University, or Cal Poly.

Nov 1, 2024 | thesandiegosun.com | Ron Donoho

Maybe you’ve seen public artist Sandy Snakenberg blowing giant bubbles near Seaport Village or other public places around town. It’s also possible you heard about San Diego’s “Bubble Pirate” in the news. On August 24 in a park near La Jolla Cove, the Bubble Pirate was ticketed by a Parks & Recreation Ranger for “littering prohibited fluid.”Snakenberg was ticketed for violating a San Diego Municipal Code that covers “Littering…boxes, waste paper,” but makes no mention of water and soap.

Oct 16, 2024 | thesandiegosun.com | Ron Donoho

The San Diego Sun recently interviewed the two candidates running for mayor of San Diego. Incumbent Todd Gloria and challenger Larry Turner were both asked similar questions about themselves, each other and the city’s top hot button issue of homelessness. Turner’s profile ran October 11; Here is Gloria’s story. There’s a question San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria gets on a regular basis that involves Vice President Kamala Harris. Some back story first.