In the grips of a $6.7 million deficit, the City of Escondido is grabbing for every penny in savings. So far, revenues have dropped by $4.1 million. This year’s expenditures are $6.6 million less than …
June 11, 2009
Blog Entries
- Tijuana Snapshot
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- Platinum's Juicy, Subsidized Deal for Delphi Runs into Snag
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- Elderberry, Magnolia, and Buckwheat
- Don't Tase Me, Sonny!
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News & Stories
Searching for Savings
Nothing For Nothing
At the Wednesday-morning meeting of the San Diego City Council’s rules committee, councilmembers Tony Young, Kevin Faulconer, Donna Frye, and Todd Gloria (council president Ben Hueso was at a Coastal Commission meeting) requested that the …
June 11, 2009
The Path of Least Resistance
When the Imperial Beach City Council decided to forego a special election and appoint former mayor Diane Rose to fill the vacant council position left after councilmember Fred McLean passed away from cancer, the city …
June 11, 2009
It’s Hard to Be a Fan
Though the Padres stretched their Sunday, June 7, game against the Arizona Diamondbacks 18 innings in the longest major league game so far this season, one Padres fan didn’t quite make it to the 8th. …
June 11, 2009
Smuggled by Surfboard
At about 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 7, U.S. Border Patrol Agents spotted a surfer paddling north about 200 yards off the Imperial Beach coast, near the Mexican border. On the orange surfboard, agents could …
June 11, 2009