Matt Potter

Matt Potter has been a staff writer and editor at the San Diego Reader since 1989. He reports on politics and local institutions such as the Union-Tribune, UCSD, SDSU, and the City and County of San Diego. He is the author of the weekly Under the Radar column. Besides breaking the Cheetahs corruption story a year before the FBI raided the offices of the San Diego city council, he has written extensively on governance, medical ethics, and human experimentation issues at the University of California San Diego.

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Great Outdoors: Mural lobbyist joins big billboard graphics fray

Partially completed Blue Moon mural on side of downtown bar building complies with city code and is protected by the First Amendment, proprietor maintains

2013 seems to be shaping up as San Diego's year of the great billboard battle, as noted here earlier this ...

Much-hyped Venter Big Oil algae deal heads back to drawing board

UCSD alumnus and self-styled emperor of the worlds genomes recasts not so miraculous $300 million deal with ExxonMobil for genetically engineering fuel from algae, reports MIT Tech Review

As first reported here in November 2008, La Jolla's Craig Venter, the self-styled human genome king, had grand plans for ...

$37 million school bond deal to finance Manchester's sale of North County Times building

Escondido's Classical Academy High School charter up for approval of big loan in form of "pass through" conduit bonds

Republican U-T publisher Douglas Manchester's deal to sell the former campus of the North County Times in Escondido for a ...

Hands on the bar

The San Diego County Fair starts next month at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, but in the meantime one of the fair board members has been making good use of the facilities himself. On May 25 ...

Falling for Humpty

Daniel Bucheli, a staffer for Republican congressman Darrell Issa (who has of late been watchdogging the Obama administration’s Benghazi record), recently took a two-day free trip up the road from the nation’s capital to visit ...

Really smoking

With the battle over San Diego medical pot parlors raging between the city council and mayor Bob Filner and full-on legalization unfolding in Washington and Colorado, it’s probably not too surprising that more marijuana is ...

Manchester divorce: is second try the charm?

Legally separated more than three years, GOP real estate developer, hotel magnate, and U-T San Diego owner Doug Manchester files for divorce against estranged wife

He tied the knot back in January 1965, got sued for divorce in June 2009, and was proclaimed legally separated ...

Rancho Guejito served with cleanup order

Controversial developer, backer of county GOP and downtown San Diego lobbying group, must comply by November, state agency says

Giant North County developer Rancho Guejito Corporation has been hit by a Cleanup and Abatement Order issued by the state's ...

Drawings depicting posh stadium for La Jolla billionaire family's NBA team released

Basketball's Kings franchise, long a popular venue for lobbyists’ wining and dining of California politicos, to get luxurious new home, per drawings released today by Sacramento mayor

As reported earlier today, members of La Jolla's billionaire Jacobs family are said by the Sacramento Bee to be among ...

Qualcomm’s Jacobs family to sink big money into Sacramento NBA team, paper reports

Kings reportedly will stay in state capital, courtesy of taxpayer arena subsidy

For years, Irwin Jacobs and his family have done a lot of political business in Sacramento - example number one ...

Homeland security blanket

Whether or not it makes the citizenry feel more secure or not, the City of San Diego is looking for a few good Homeland Security Coordinators, according to an online job notice. The new hires ...

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