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Harold Vance

Opinion Columnist · Signed columns on the city's future

Harold Vance is the Opinion Columnist of the San Diego Chronicle. Beat: Signed columns on the city's future.

Stories by Harold

Opinion · Column

The housing math does not care about your feelings

San Diego must permit 13,500 homes a year. The arithmetic does not negotiate.

Sept. 28
Opinion · Column

The border is San Diego's economic engine. Start treating it like one.

More than 130,000 legal crossings a day, and we still make people wait in line for hours.

Sept. 27
Opinion · Column

The trolley proved San Diego can build big things. Remember that.

Eleven miles, nine stations, $2.1 billion, on time. The city did the hard thing once.

Sept. 26