{"id":400943,"date":"2026-07-16T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400943\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:57:08","slug":"horton-plaza-has-promise-that-city-leaders-dont-grasp-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400943\/","title":{"rendered":"Horton Plaza has promise that city leaders don\u2019t grasp \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cWho will save Horton?\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/09\/28\/who-will-save-horton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 28<\/a>): Horton Plaza could be a near-ideal San Diego City Hall and administration complex \u2014 if we had city leaders who were interested and capable of \u201cfinding a way.\u201d Instead, they are distracted, spending their time and our money on bloated trash fees, digital grocery store coupons, empty bike lanes, Balboa parking fees and new street parking meters.<\/p>\n<p>We need a change. We deserve better.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Larry Halford, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cWho will save Horton?\u201d (Sept. 28): Horton Plaza could be a near-ideal San Diego City Hall and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-400943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}