David Rolland

David Rolland
Editor
davidr@sdcitybeat.com

David Rolland has been the editor of CityBeat since the paper's launch in the summer of 2002. He once talked his way out of a military police station in Croatia by invoking the name of Nirvana's bass player. Send him your story ideas, marriage proposals and recipes that involve potatoes, by far his most favoritest food of all time.


Stories by David Rolland

Medicare: one doc's opinion

An ear-nose-and-throat guy's take on a national problem

Author David Rolland Date 07/01/2008
Catch the fever

I got a little too close to Bob Filner and came down with something

Author David Rolland Date 06/17/2008
Developer vs. developer

H.G. Fenton funds campaign to stop Sudberry’s big Mission Valley development

Author David Rolland Date 06/03/2008
Crystal balls and pairs of dice

Steve Francis and Donna Frye are giving Jerry Sanders grief for raising fees—it's a story loaded with irony.

Author David Rolland Date 05/27/2008
Manny

Our weekly series putting faces on San Diego's homeless

Author David Rolland Date 05/27/2008
Drinking with the candidates (sort of)

Our attempts to booze with the City Council hopefuls

Author David Rolland , Eric Wolff Date 05/13/2008
Dancing machine

Ghostland Observatory is an odd mix of earthy spirituality and high-energy electronica

Author David Rolland Date 05/13/2008
Man at work

Mayor Jerry Sanders says he needs more time to get the job done—oh, and, dammit, he’s not a developers’ lapdog  

Author David Rolland Date 05/06/2008
Fuck you

Sanders gets all foul up in Francis' grill—more power to 'im.

Author David Rolland Date 04/29/2008
Frye's future

Donna Frye has high hopes for 2009—and beyond

Author David Rolland Date 03/11/2008
Bruce

Our weekly series putting faces on San Diego's homeless

Author David Rolland Date 03/04/2008
The rest of the story

In a story about Mike Aguirre, the Union-Tribune plays up the comments of one of his deputies and ignores the comments of another

Author David Rolland Date 03/04/2008
What patriotism means

Considering the concept of love of country

Author David Rolland Date 02/26/2008
The two faces of Steve

Will voters who remember Steve Francis from 2005 recognize the new model?

Author David Rolland Date 02/26/2008
Absurdities on the campaign trail

The city attorney campaign has only just begun, and already, some people are behaving very badly

Author David Rolland Date 02/19/2008