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Business December 5, 2024

Corporate giant IDEC snatches $49.5M Carlsbad facility

In the end, this is not a story. In yet another episode of corporate maneuvering dressed in glossy press releases, Cushman & Wakefield proudly announced its role in facilitating a $49.5 million deal that highlights the unchecked commodification of vital industrial spaces. Hill Companies, LLC, a Greenwood Village investment firm, has offloaded Studio 2200—a massive, 233,194-square-foot facility in Carlsbad, California—to IDEC Corporation, a multinational giant…

Consumer News, Lifestyle November 25, 2024

Don’t let scan scams steal your holiday cheer

The holiday season arrives, as inescapable as the tick of the clock, bearing with it an intricate dance of joy, obligation, and the quiet dread of commerce. The streets teem with hurried figures, each one clinging to a wallet or purse, not as an instrument of exchange, but as a fragile barrier against the unseen forces waiting to exploit their haste. For the holiday shopper,…

Rancho Santa Fe, Real Estate November 23, 2024

Art for the 1%: Cunningham’s $10.5M ‘Wing’ House flies

The spiraling dreamscape of Wallace E. Cunningham—an acolyte of the great Frank Lloyd Wright—stands not merely as a home, but as a monument to the unchecked decadence of capital’s aesthetic whims. Perched precariously in the gilded hills of Rancho Santa Fe, this $10.5 million helix of steel, glass, and concrete screams both genius and excess, a Kandinsky nightmare born of privilege and artistic abandon. They…

Business, Escondido, Real Estate November 22, 2024

Big Bucks for a Box: The $38.76M warehouse…that’s not even built yet

You wouldn’t believe the hullabaloo some people make about a slab of concrete, but here goes. Cushman & Wakefield, those bigwig real estate folks, couldn’t wait to puff out their chests and tell the world they helped broker the forward sale of an industrial building in Escondido, California. Fancy name, right? Forward sale. It’s just code for “selling something that’s not even finished yet,” which…

Agriculture, Business, Consumer News, History November 19, 2024

From San Marcos ‘Dressing’ to Thanksgiving

(Editor’s Note: This was the state of the holiday just one year pre-COVID, for those with nostalgia for the way ot was before social distancing and over 770,000 Americans lost their lives…) California supplies the nation’s Thanksgiving tables California ranked #8 in turkey production in the United States (2016), and supplied most of the western states from our poultry farms located in several areas in the state….

Business, Consumer News, Editorial, Opinion November 11, 2024

Trumponomics for those believing a faux businessman

Trump and his administration claimed credit for much of the economic success during his presidency, including the booming economy ahead of the pandemic-induced shutdowns and recession. However, critics have pointed out that much of the economic progress he points to was inherited from former president Barack Obama’sadministration. Trump ran a campaign centered on the promise to Make America Great Again (MAGA).Trump’s tariffs are expected to…

Agriculture, Business, Dean Weissmann presents, Riverside County March 1, 2024

Sunlet Nursery shamrocks are evergreens

(Editor’s Note: Last weekend, roughly 70,000 shamrock plants filled some of Sunlet’s many greenhouses, but by Wednesday, almost all had been shipped out to garden centers and supermarkets, locally and throughout the western United States, according to Harry Jones of the San Diego Union Tribune. “They’ll be on their way to their forever home,” said Janet Kister, owner of Fallbrook’s 26-acre Sunlet Nursery. All of Sunlet’s business is…

Business, Surprising and Strange February 20, 2024

Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps: He was a giant

Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps: He was a giant Oh, what a long —- and sudsy —- trip it has been for Dr. Emmanuel H. Bronner and the soap he created, then popularized along with a cleansing dose of proselytizing. Bronner may be gone now, but nowhere near forgotten given the hundreds upon hundreds of Web pages devoted to his memory. These pages are devoted to…

Agriculture, Business, Featured, Health, Health & Fitness, The World February 20, 2024

Dr. Bronner’s psychedelic mushroom trip

Dr. Emanuel Bronner was born Feb. 1, 1908 and died March 7, 1997 at his Escondido home. His soap company moved to Vista in 2014 after 50 years in Escondido. Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps remain an iconic and distinctively American staple brand and curiosity, their wordy labels ubiquitous from Northwestern co-operative farming communities to the upscale bodegas of gentrified North Brooklyn. The boldly colored packaging…

Business, Escondido, Surprising and Strange February 20, 2024

Dr. Bronner rises from the grave to say

‘ALL-ONE’ soap aside, and sudsy philosophy notwithstanding, Dr. Emmanuel Bronner has emerged from beyond the grave with an appropriately nostalgic series of ruminations released on a vinyl LP. Or as the publicity department said: “‘Sisters & Brothers’ is a long-play record that features original recordings of Dr. Emanuel Bronner—visionary, soapmaker, grandfather and founder of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps. Recorded between 1970 and 1995, on a variety of…