Randy Dotinga
Voice of San Diego
San Diego, CA, United States
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The Shadows Under the Sun: 2022's Great Journalism About San Diego
The news business has shrunk over the past couple of decades, but there are still dozens of journalists whose job is to uncover hidden truths about San Diego. Earlier this week we highlighted some of our best Voice of San Diego stories, but here’s a look at some of our favorite work about San Diego […] → Read More
Loss and Struggle, but Triumphs Too: The Tales We Told in 2022
Our favorite articles of the year highlight people whose lives reveal greater San Diego stories. → Read More
Talk About Pork: The Slop-py Origins of the People’s Ordinance
San Diegans from the 1910s have a lot of weirdness to answer for. First, city leaders illegally and violently cracked down on free speech in downtown. Then they banned the baring of ankles and elbows at La Jolla beaches and outlawed sex outside of marriage. Times have changed. Just drop by Black’s Beach on a […] → Read More
Hail to the Chiefs: San Diego Hosts Its 15th President in a Row
Snotty teenagers, giraffes, and a famous chicken all got facetime with visitors from the White House → Read More
Before Gay Meant Gay: Meet San Diego’s Early LGBTQ Pioneers
A century ago, same-sex couples and a female impersonator lived prominent and public lives here → Read More
Q&A with Andrew Pettegree, author of ‘The Library: A Fragile History’
Andrew Pettegree, co-author of “The Library: A Fragile History,” discusses the centuries-long development of libraries as a civic necessity. → Read More
Libraries Find New Roles as Pandemic Lingers —
San Diego’s head librarian Misty Jones explains how the library system is doing, and how its adjusted to pandemic-related changes. → Read More
2021’s Most Memorable Quotes: One Bear of a Year —
The good news: This year is over at last! The bad news: Just about everything else. But even as we worried our way through 2021, San Diegans had plenty to say. Here’s a sampling of a few memorable quotes: If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say… Come Sit By Me! • “Well, let’s not […] → Read More
Hard Truths Uncovered and a City Explained: Our Favorite Stories of 2021 —
Voice's journalists share the investigations, explainers, scoops and controversies that they most enjoyed reporting out in 2021. → Read More
The ‘Mother of Lesbian History’ Looks Back — and Forward
Lillian Faberman’s work has transformed our understanding of the LGBT community’s past. → Read More
I’m in a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial, and Now I've Got a Big Decision to Make —
Here’s the big question: Should I stay in the trial for months more, not knowing if I got the real vaccine, or should I quit and get an authorized shot or two as soon as I can? → Read More
San Diego's Sky-High Dreams Keep Getting Quashed —
Here are four things to know about our eternal quest for iconic structures. → Read More
2020 in Quotes: Anger, Apologies and Real Talk —
Catch up on this terrible year's most memorable remarks. → Read More
Terrible Year, Great Discoveries: Our Favorite Stories of 2020 —
These were our favorite stories from this crazy, devastating, unprecedented and very newsy year. → Read More
How San Diego Got So Blue in a Relatively Short Amount of Time —
The local numbers reveal just how much our local politics have transformed within less than a generation: President-elect Joe Biden got a higher percentage of the vote here than any Democrat since FDR’s 1936 landslide victory smack in the middle of the Depression. → Read More
Q&A with Lesley-Ann Jones, author of ‘The Search for John Lennon’
The British rock historian answers questions about one of music’s brightest stars – and the shadows he left behind. → Read More
Mind the (Vote) Gap: Can We Get More STEM Students to the Polls?
This article is part of the magazine, "The Future of Science In America: The Election Issue," co-published by LeapsMag, the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program, and GOOD.By the numbers, American college students who major in STEM disciplines—science, technology, engineering, and math—aren't bi... → Read More
Cigarettes, Sewage and a Giant Perot: Inside San Diego’s Own Presidential Debate —
In 1996, San Diego played host to a Bob Dole/Bill Clinton faceoff at USD. Things got a bit weird. → Read More
Coronavirus Risk Calculators: What You Need to Know
But the results – based on my answers to questions — are bewildering. A British risk calculator developed by the Nexoid software company declared I have a 5 percent, or 1 in 20, chance of developing COVID-19 and less than 1 percent risk of dying if I get it. Um, great, I think? Meanwhile, 19 and Me, a risk calculator created by data scientists, says my risk of infection is 0.01 percent per week,… → Read More
Coronavirus Risk Calculators: What You Need to Know
But the results – based on my answers to questions — are bewildering. A British risk calculator developed by the Nexoid software company declared I have a 5 percent, or 1 in 20, chance of developing COVID-19 and less than 1 percent risk of dying if I get it. Um, great, I think? Meanwhile, 19 and Me, a risk calculator created by data scientists, says my risk of infection is 0.01 percent per week,… → Read More