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Kehoe’s China Adventure
Published Feb. 8, 2012
Democratic state senator Christine Kehoe, barred by term limits from running again for her seat, has continued to collect contributions for her so-called officeholder account, a means that state law sanctions to tap special interests for ...
Get Out of Jail Free Cards
Published Feb. 8, 2012
San Diego County sheriff Bill Gore is looking for a few good legal researchers to help the denizens of his jails throw off their chains. “The inmates’ right to conduct legal research has been determined to ...
Murdoch and Bren Contribute
Published Feb. 8, 2012
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Group gave $1000 to the reelection bid of liberal San Diego Democratic assemblywoman Toni Atkins on December 22. Meanwhile Orange County’s Irvine Company, owned by Republican billionaire Donald Bren, stepson of the late ...
Of Saldaña and Sharia
Published Jan. 25, 2012
Ex–Democratic assemblywoman Lori Saldaña, who at one point or another has considered running for the San Diego County board of supervisors and the state Board ... More Post a comment
Flying Moosbrugger
Published Jan. 25, 2012
KPBS isn’t the only SDSU cause to benefit from Qualcomm-related largesse. According to a June 24, 2011 filing on the website of the university’s Campanile ... More Post a comment
Jacobs Helps Bankroll KPBS Comeback
Published Jan. 25, 2012
Twenty-eleven was a good fund-raising year for KPBS, the public broadcasting operation owned by San Diego State University, thanks in major part to billionaire Qualcomm ... More Post a comment
Stearman Flips Over at Montgomery Field
Published Jan. 18, 2012
Former naval aviator Bill Wachtler of Solana Beach is an engineer with multiple patents to his name. He still flies a Stearman biplane, the kind ... More Post a comment
Judge’s Double-Dipping Pool
Published Jan. 18, 2012
With public pension costs going through the roof, the stock market flat, and a shortage of tax dollars to make up the difference, politicians everywhere ... More Post a comment
Government Grants Fund San Diego Sports Commission
Published Jan. 18, 2012
The San Diego Sports Commission paid its president Alan Kidd a total of $165,477 during the 12 months ending in June 2010, according to the ... More Comment (1)
The Snapdragon Stadium Gambit
Published Jan. 11, 2012
Last week’s revelation that San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders proceeded with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Stadium promotion even though the office of city attorney Jan Goldsmith said ... More Comment (1)
Day of the Political Dead
Published Jan. 11, 2012
South Bay Democratic assemblyman Marty Block, ramping up for a run for state senate this year, has shut down his old assembly campaign committee but ... More Post a comment
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