San Diego City Council meeting minutes, May 22
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Ex-IRS Agent Turned Tax Preparer Nailed for Laundering
Steven Martinez, a former Internal Revenue Service agent who has been running a tax preparation business, was arrested today (April ...
Local Unemployment Rate Up, but Jobs Rise
The San Diego County unemployment rate rose to 10.2% in March from a revised 10.1% in February, according to the ...
Online Advertising Overtakes Newspapers, Cable TV
Online advertising expanded by 15% last year to $26 billion, according to the industry annual report prepared by accounting firm ...
Orange County Loses Fight against Deputy Sheriff Pensions
Orange County's four-year fight against the so-called "3% at 50" pension plan for deputy sheriffs ended abruptly yesterday (April 13) ...
San Diegan Canned for Airing NFL Sex Bombshells
San Diego resident Gary Plummer, who has been the San Francisco 49ers radio color commentator for 12 years, got the ...
Former USD Players, Assistant Coach Indicted for Point Shaving
Two former University of San Diego basketball players and a former assistant coach have been indicted on allegations of participating ...
North County Times Parent Selling Junk Bonds to Survive
The Wall Street Journal this morning (April 11) tells how Lee Enterprises, the severely debt-laden parent of the North County ...
How Washington Post Licks Boots of Federal Government
Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com wrote a brilliant article Sunday (April 10) on how the parent of the Washington Post must ...
Qualcomm's Jacobs 26th Highest-Paid Executive
Paul E. Jacobs, 48, who succeeded his father as chief executive officer of Qualcomm in 2005, was the 26th best-paid ...
Tax Preparer Gets 11 Years in Slammer
Saleh Mahmoud Zahran was sentenced today (April 8) to 11 years in prison for income tax evasion, multiple filings of ...
Union-Tribune Owner Buys Detroit Pistons
According to the Detroit News, Tom Gores and his Beverly Hills-based investment firm, Platinum Equity, have announced today (April 8) ...
Parking Grosses $430,000 Per Chargers Game
The City of San Diego yesterday (April 7) put out a request for proposal for companies to bid on parking ...
Cunningham Says He Couldn't Have Had Sex; He Was "Almost Impotent"
Former North County Congressman Randy (Duke) Cunningham has sent a letter from prison to blog Talking Points Memo and other ...
Japan Hit by Second Quake
Early reports today (April 7) indicate Japan has been hit by another earthquake, although it is not as severe as ...
SD Workforce Index Rises Sharply
The San Diego Workforce Index, assembled by the Workforce Partnership, spurted 1% in February, its biggest jump since November, 2009. ...
Bridgepoint Most Shorted U.S. Stock
San Diego's Bridgepoint Education, the for-profit university under Congressional attack as well as government investigation, is the most heavily shorted ...
State Bar Seeks to Yank License of Anti-Foreclosure Attorney
According to the California Bar Journal, the State Bar has filed to lift the law license of Carlsbad attorney Michael ...
Top Exec Pay Soars; Average Worker Barely Staying Even
USA Today, working with data from Governance Metrics International, reports that last year, chief executive compensation soared by 27%, while ...
Gene Ray Makes Hall of Fame. Hmmm
Gene Ray has become the ninth local executive to make the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame, which is sponsored by Connect, ...
U.S. Job Gains Top Estimate; Unemployment Rate 8.8%
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8% in March. According to the Labor Department, the nation ...
