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Stories by Neal Matthews
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Final days of vegetable farming on Otay Mesa
March 17, 1988
- Cover Stories
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San Diego could go another 150 years without another earthquake. But it’s possible the whole damn thing could blow tomorrow.
January 21, 1988
- Cover Stories
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Southeast San Diego: it's more than mean streets
November 26, 1987
- Barrio Logan
- Cover Stories
- Emerald Hills
- Encanto
- Logan Heights
- Mount Hope
- Paradise Hills
- Sherman Heights
- Skyline
- Valencia Park
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Jerry Gross – San Diego's sportscaster who sued the Padres
October 15, 1987
- Cover Stories
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The Spaceman of OB Checks In
October 8, 1987
- Feature Stories
- Ocean Beach
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Neglected trees of Balboa Park
September 3, 1987
- Cover Stories
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No Mexican steers entering U.S. will have hard ticks
July 23, 1987
- Cover Stories
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The controversy surrounding the California condor may well outlive the species
May 7, 1987
- Cover Stories
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The importance of Avenida Revolucion
April 23, 1987
- Cover Stories
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Engineer claims damage from PCBs at Westgate Hotel
April 2, 1987
- City Lights
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Anti-Castro Cubans take on Mayor O'Connor
March 19, 1987
- Cover Stories
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Larry Himmel — Channel 8's clown
February 5, 1987
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Camp Mataguay — not for sissies
September 4, 1986
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So many cars stolen in San Diego
July 31, 1986
- Cover Stories
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The Indians and Edward H. Davis
June 12, 1986
- Native Americans
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San Diego & Imperial Valley Railroad hopes for profit
April 3, 1986
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San Diego Mission's oldest remains covered up
February 20, 1986
- Cover Stories
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The seven wonders of San Diego
October 24, 1985
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Ballast Point's whaling station unearthed
September 26, 1985
- City Lights
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Bill Kellogg fights Imperial Beach breakwater
September 23, 1985
- City Lights
- Imperial Beach
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Archie Moore still doesn't pull his punches
September 19, 1985
- Cover Stories
- Sports
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Escondido's Stephan Reiss finds primary water – where no one else can
June 6, 1985
- Cover Stories
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San Diego homicide teams descends on Golden Hill
April 18, 1985
- Cover Stories
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San Carlos family deals with adult schizophrenic son
January 24, 1985
- Cover Stories
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Tight-lipped submariners aboard the Blueback open up
November 29, 1984
- Cover Stories
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Boxing comes to the Palisades Garden roller rink
September 27, 1984
- Cover Stories
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The luring of the 1988 Super Bowl to San Diego – and all that went on before
June 28, 1984
- Cover Stories
- Sports
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San Diego's last vaquero – his dad drove cattle from Pendleton to Cuyamaca
May 17, 1984
- Cover Stories
- Famous San Diego characters
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Duke Cunningham's dogfight with MiGs over North Vietnam
March 29, 1984
- Cover Stories
- Famous San Diego characters
- Navy life
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Cops in Pacific Beach blame Diego's
March 8, 1984
- City Lights
- Pacific Beach
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Drunk on a bike on Mission Beach boardwalk
March 1, 1984
- City Lights
- Mission Beach
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Naval Electronics Lab: SWATH boats, pulse-height analyzer, compass checker, lift sling
February 2, 1984
- Cover Stories
- Navy life
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United Front Vietnamese and the murder of refugees here and in Texas
October 6, 1983
- Cover Stories
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Bodysurfers from Oceanside to the IB Pier
September 8, 1983
- Cover Stories
- Waterfront
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The profundity of the Vietnamese poets in San Diego
September 1, 1983
- Feature Stories
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Oceanside police use tougher dogs
August 4, 1983
- Cover Stories
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Phony Texas oilman dupes, marries La Jolla real estate woman
June 23, 1983
- Cover Stories
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City Councilman Bill Mitchell openly talks of est and self-actualization
March 24, 1983
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Chamber of Commerce's Lee Grissom knows every San Diego leader
March 3, 1983
- Cover Stories
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Down the corridors of San Diego County Mental Health
December 9, 1982
- Cover Stories
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Lost cannons of Ft. Guijarros
October 21, 1982
- Feature Stories
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San Ysidro – the town that San Diego would like to forget
September 3, 1981
- Cover Stories
- San Ysidro
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The cowboy of the Mission Beach boardwalk
July 30, 1981
- City Lights
- Mission Beach
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La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art and its zany director
July 9, 1981
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One hundred miles from Salton Sea to Pendleton with the Marines
May 28, 1981
- Cover Stories
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The Final Days of Dewey Taylor
April 16, 1981
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The rise of downtown's Columbia Centre
February 26, 1981
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1980 San Diego in review – long and short takes
December 18, 1980
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San Diego Symphony board blames its conductor for small crowds
December 6, 1979
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OMBAC: For Big Kids Only
November 1, 1979
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- Mission Beach
