Ronald Reagan

Remembering Ronald Reagan …

February 10, 2011 by Staff
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Reader Plea: ‘Please don’t let them name the Coronado Bridge after Ronald Reagan’ – Call and Vote in U-T Poll

February 8, 2011 by Staff
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A reader wrote us: “Please don’t let them rename any of our San Diego structures for Ronald Reagan- B actor, D president, F on human rights.”

(See this article – inside link.) Make this simple call TODAY 2/8/11 and make your voice heard!

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Reagan Day? More than 60% of Americans Just Say No

February 4, 2011 by Source
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by Erica Holloway / San Diego Rostra / February 4, 2011

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Happy Dutch Day? Nope, most Americans say they’d rather work.

More than 60 percent of Americans reject the idea of denoting 40th President Ronald Reagan’s birthday, February 6, as a federal public holiday.

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Jim Carroll Vs Ronald Reagan

November 13, 2009 by Michael Steinberg
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Jim Carroll’s death on September 11 brought back a lot of memories. His burst into popular consciousness in the early 1980s with The Jim Carroll Band happened when I was living in San Francisco.

Ronald Reagan was just coming to power, and would soon axe my job as a tenant organizer. This job been funded by the federal government though a program created by the Carter administration.

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George’s N’er-Do-Well Son

March 27, 2008 by Staff

It’s been brought to our attention that ole Ronny didn’t say this, but we’re still chucklin’ over it. So this is our retraction… consider it an early April Fools joke! From an email this morning, “Too bad he didn’t get the job” “A moment I’ve been dreading. George brought his n’er-do-well son around this morning […]

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