Federal Reserve will keep interest rates low, harming family savers

A new set of statistics plus an action by the central bank, (Federal Reserve) dramatically showed today (Sept. 17) why Wall Street is feasting off Main Street's pain. The Census Bureau announced that median household income, adjusted for inflation, is …

District has already lost a case challenging the use of funds for stadium lights at Hoover High School

Update: An earlier version stated that the cost of the lights was $800,000. That was incorrect. The amount was $462,000. 'Lights, renovation, and revenue' seems to be the motto these days from officials at the cash-strapped San Diego Unified School …

Competitive bidding is needed first, except for current service provider Rural/Metro

San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith’s office is out with a report advising the city council against considering a request by the fire department and their International Association of Firefighters Union, Local 145, to take the responsibility for providing Advanced …

A sparse crowd of about two dozen gathered at San Diego Civic Center downtown yesterday evening (September 17) to celebrate the second anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, paling in comparison to the thousand or more who once stormed …

More than a year after the previous attempt failed, North Park Main Street is back again

The required one-and-a-half year cooling off period has expired and North Park Main Street is back with a new proposal to bring a Property-based Improvement District (PBID) to North Park. In July 2011, a proposal to expand the current assessment …

Singapore executive arrested in San Diego

Three individuals were charged with participating in a criminal military bribery scheme unsealed in federal court today (Sept. 17). Leonard Glenn Francis, head of a Singapore defense contractor, was charged with providing luxury travel and prostitutes to U.S. Navy Commander …

A new urban mini-park is planned for Alabama Street in front of Mama's Bakery and Live Wire.

On August 23, with their eyes shining brightly towards utopia, North Park Main Street, the City of San Diego, and the North Park community inaugurated the city’s first parklet in front of Caffé Calabria (3933 30th Street). The eco-urban gesture …

City has support of the Humane Society

After months of protests and city council consideration, the City of San Diego moved last month to ban the sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits in a commercial setting. Now, a similar movement is brewing in Oceanside, and the San …

Tim Lambesis’ attorney suggested it was all a “setup”

A fitness trainer named Brett said he knew Tim Lambesis at the gym where he worked, but just in passing. Lambesis was a client of a different trainer there, at the gym called Pure Fitness in Carlsbad, California. The trainer …

Following the money in San Diego mayor's race gets yet more interesting as heavily partying Republican Manchester writes weighty check to California party committee

As reported here two weeks ago, the folks over at the local Republican party seem to have become the town’s unrivaled masters at moving cash around in creative ways that, whether intentional or not, have the effect of obscuring the …

Loan applications falsified

John Allen of Laguna Hills was sentenced today (Sept. 16) for participation in a mortgage scam. According to the U.S. Attorney's office, he solicited so-called investors who would become straw buyers of homes. Allen would falsify loan applications by claiming …

Money laundering, witness tampering among charges

Two San Diegans have lost their Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licenses, according to the California Board of Accountancy. Steven Martinez earlier pleaded guilty to 12 felony counts, including mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering, and use of interstate commerce …

Doing better than 2008, but not much improvement in the last year

The Port of San Diego recently released its Green Port Year In Review results for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, celebrating significant reductions in water and electricity use and in the carbon footprint of Port activities. Little, however, appears to have …

Faulconer hired Kurt Snow from The Wayne Johnson Agency to purchase ads from October 5 to November 8.

Television viewers in San Diego will soon see a lot more of councilmember Kevin Faulconer. The Republican-endorsed mayoral candidate is the first of the crowded pack to buy ad time on local television stations in the run-up to the November …

As campaign cash mounts in unusual San Diego mayoral battle, friendships of the past continue to pay off big for former Republican legislator

You might say the chickens have come home to roost for newly minted Democrat and Qualcomm executive Nathan Fletcher. Or at least some of the money they make for a big poultry processor in the California industrial town of Vernon …

Sheriff’s deputies were called out to Viejas Casino in Alpine on Friday afternoon to investigate a suspicious device an employee located in a trash can while cleaning a restroom. The casino at the time was conducting a promotion wherein staff …

Brian Lee Olsen made a plea deal after nearly six years in custody

A man held in custody almost six years awaiting trial on a murder charge made a plea deal admitting manslaughter. Brian Lee Olsen, 40, was charged with murder after police shot and killed the female passenger in his car the …

Navy says he falsified results of physical fitness assessment

According to the publication Stars & Stripes, Captain William B. Cogar was relieved of his duties as commander of Medical Treatment Facility USNS Mercy for falsely reporting the results of his physical fitness assessment. Cogar was also charged with failing …

Newport Beach-based Tarsadia Investments family gives major money to Ex-Republican Qualcomm executive; Unite Here Local 30 vows Hilton boycott

With union-backed mayor Bob Filner deposed, the epic battle between labor and capital for control of San Diego's city hall has resumed with a vengeance, based on campaign cash disclosures filed by two putative major candidates. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/13/53124/ Yesterday, as reported …

Alpine’s Viejas Casino is celebrating Friday the 13th of September by attempting to break two obscure Guinness World Records. For the first stunt, the tribal gambling facility intends to play the world’s largest game of blackjack – dealing out cards …