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

The watch list

Stuff to keep an eye on in 2009

Shovels at the ready

Regional officials can’t wait to get their hands on federal money

Author David Rolland Date 12/16/2008
From Nixon to Bush

John Dean on civil liberties, the Republicans and the imperial presidency

Author David Rolland Date 10/28/2008
Talk to the Navy

Tell them whether or not you want more hotels on the waterfront

Author David Rolland Date 09/17/2008
Big dreams

I want the new City Hall on the waterfront—but someone else has to do the heavy lifting

Author David Rolland Date 09/09/2008
Pledge drive

The rising cost of paper and what it means

Author David Rolland Date 09/02/2008
It was nepotastic

North by North Park was a huge success

Author David Rolland Date 08/05/2008
Child support

Youth-welfare advocates want more pay for foster parent

Author David Rolland Date 08/05/2008
Memories of war

Karadzic arrest recalls a visit to Croatia and the horrors of war

Author David Rolland Date 07/29/2008
Out of proportion

As San Diego County’s Latino population rises, political representation isn’t keeping pace

Author David Rolland Date 07/15/2008
Greg Sullivan

Our series putting faces and names on San Diego's homeless

Author David Rolland Date 07/08/2008
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