Tag: Ronald Reagan

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

 Staff  February 8, 2011  5 Comments on Reader Plea: ‘Please don’t let them name the Coronado Bridge after Ronald Reagan’ – Call and Vote in U-T Poll

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

 Source  February 4, 2011  13 Comments on Reagan Day? More than 6013 of Americans Just Say No

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

 Michael Steinberg  November 13, 2009  6 Comments on Jim Carroll Vs Ronald Reagan

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

 Staff  March 27, 2008  8 Comments on George’s N’er-Do-Well Son

It’s been brought to our attention that ole Ronny didn’t say this, but we’re still chucklin’ over it. So this…

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