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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Fishing for campaign funds a finished business on Hunter's political party boat

Gary Hart's "Monkey Business" has nothing on Duncan Hunter's "Finished Business" upcoming fundraising cruise backed by boat makers lobby

Democratic Senator Gary Hart had his fling with Donna Rice in Bimini on a yacht called Monkey Business back in ...

Governor's sister and crony now both on Sempra board

Brown family has history of controversy regarding cross-border-related energy involvement in California and Mexico

Governor Jerry Brown's insider contingent at Sempra Energy got bigger last week with the announcement that his sister, former California ...

Goldsmith grabs guns of allegedly suicidal dentist in 2nd Amendment appeal

California's 4th District appellate court holds that allegations of suicidal tendencies trump San Diego woman's constitutional right to bear arms.

Chalk up a victory for San Diego GOP city attorney Jan Goldsmith, not in his long-running power war with Democratic ...

No conflicts of interest in hiring D.C. lobbyist, San Diego development honcho says

Fresh military base closure fears spawn new lobbying gig for Washington law firm of San Diego super lawyer and regional Economic Development Corporation board member

The process of deciding which of the nation's sprawling complex of military bases should be closed in the name of ...

Schemmel's sweet home Alabama

JMI Sports, the big-money consulting outfit set up by controversial financier and ex-Padres owner John Moores, has picked up another client in the chronically scandal-tainted world of college athletics. This time it’s Alabama’s public Auburn ...

Booze, sweets, and Vargas

It took only a short time for Democrat Juan Vargas to conduct his first San Diego fundraiser as a newly elected Democratic congressman. On March 22, according to an invitation widely circulated here and on ...

Army to award sole source contract to Chargers for Guard recruiting

Unknown amount of U.S. tax dollars to flow to team owned by wealthy Republican Spanos family, backers of Texan Rick Perry

According to a twitter round-up this morning on U-T San Diego's website, Chargers players and cheerleaders are paying surprise visits ...

Fullerton lawyer who backed Alvarez gets free Padres tickets from city

"Promotion of growth and development" cited as purpose of awarding ten tickets worth $87.69 each to law firm

Democratic city councilman David Alvarez is spreading some baseball love in the form of free tickets to a Padres game ...

California's political watchdog OKs media moonlighting by Assembly staffer in San Diego

Field representative for Democrat Shirley Weber also works for Voice & Viewpoint newspaper and in marketing gigs for non-profit Reality Changers and Internet's Imagine Media Group, regulator's opinion letter says

An aide to Democratic 79th District Assemblywoman Shirley Weber has been told by the state's political watchdog agency that it ...

Out at SDSU, Roush Moores-bound?

After three controversial decades, San Diego State University’s vice president of business and financial affairs Sally Roush is finally retiring from her $230,400-a-year job. Originally director of personnel services, Roush was promoted to her current ...

Mixed martial politics

A politically wired San Diego State University figure in the news of late has been Ricardo Lara, a Democratic California state senator. Two weeks ago, the SDSU alum was forced to cancel a $3000-a-head Memorial ...

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