Scott Lewis

1 month ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Scott Lewis

Darren Smith has been a mainstay of sports talk radio for many years in San Diego. He is known as one of the best interviewers in the region and I have enjoyed every one of my dozens of visits with him on his show.  Now he’s looking for what’s next and I was excited to bring him to our studio.   We went through some headlines, starting with San Diego’s new soccer team’s struggle with Mexican slang and slurs.

1 month ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Scott Lewis

People in San Diego are already feeling higher costs from food, housing and electricity. Now, water rates will also soar. This week, the San Diego City Council voted to approve a 5.5% water rate increase. It was tough and a couple of the councilmembers couldn’t bring themselves to do it. “I will not be able to support today’s actions because I simply cannot justify charging water customers more than they already pay,” said Councilmember Vivian Moreno.

1 month ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Scott Lewis

This week, the San Diego City Council decided to curtail the controversial ADU density bonus program. If what Council requested sticks, the city will “reduce the ADU bonus Program applicability” in some of the neighborhoods with the biggest lot sizes. But it did not go far enough for some. The vote came after Councilmember Henry Foster once again asked his colleagues to kill the whole program. They had supported him last month.

2 months ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Scott Lewis

Twenty years ago, the city’s politics were in such chaos that by April 2005, the mayor at the time, Dick Murphy, announced he was going to quit.  Murphy had successfully gotten city voters to approve the switch to the strong mayor form of government, but it would not come into place until 2006. At the start of that year, the mayor would no longer be just a presiding member of the City Council but the actual CEO of the city – the manager of most of the city’s employees.

2 months ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Scott Lewis

20 Years of Impact For our 20th anniversary, we’re revisiting our 20 stories that have had the biggest impact in the past two decades. Several years ago, our former Managing Editor Sara Libby, whose office was next to mine, came around the corner and looked at me through the glass wall with an expression of sheer terror. “I think we’ve been hacked,” was the gist.