Staff Blog Entries

Coronado Beach Ranked Nation's Finest

The beach at Coronado has been tapped as the nation’s finest, according to a new survey out today from “Dr. Beach,” or Stephen Leatherman, a coastal science professor at Miami’s Florida International University. His list ...

Kiss Statue's (Final) Final Weekend

After months of controversial wrangling over its future, “Unconditional Surrender,” the 25 foot recreation of a World War II era sailor kissing a nurse, appears to be finally approaching its final days on the San ...

SDSU Seeks Help Identifying "Mystery" Photos

San Diego State University is seeking help from the community in identifying thousands of photographs that have landed in their archives without proper notes as to their origin. “Basically, they were given to the archives ...

San Diego Republicans Raking in Cash

The Republican Party of San Diego County is boasting that it’s set a new record for fundraising in recent months, collecting $557,618.79 between March 18 and May 19. “The level of support after announcing our ...

Voter Survey: Smokers' Tax Losing Support, Brown Tax Proposal Remains Strong

The nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California has released its latest survey on the opinions of likely California voters. Covered are a host of issues coming to the ballot, including Proposition 29, a proposed $1.00/pack ...

Foreclosure Rates Continue to Fall

Foreclosure activity was down across the board last month, the tracking website ForeclosureRadar reports, and that could be a bad thing for investors who have been cashing in on the hordes of overextended and/or underemployed ...

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Resigns

Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Gregory Jaczko yesterday announced his resignation from the body responsible for oversight of 104 nuclear power plants in the United States, including the embattled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in northern ...

Court: Americans with Disabilities Act Not a Medical Marijuana Defense

California medical marijuana advocates were dealt a blow recently by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has ruled that cannabis use is not protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ruling affirmed bans ...

Sempra Partners with BP on Hawaiian Wind Farm

San Diego’s Sempra U.S. Gas & Power has announced that it will partner with BP Wind Energy to develop a project known as the Auwahi Wind farm in Hawaii. When completed, the project would generate ...

Farmers Market Food Stamps Program Expands

The number of farmers markets where recipients of food assistance under the CalFresh (formerly the Food Stamp Program) can shop for goods has doubled in recent months, the North County Times reports. When we last ...

50,000 Absentee Ballots Already Cast for June 5 Primary

A report released yesterday from Redistricting Partners and Political Data Inc. provides some insight on absentee voting in California, including data on voters that have already cast their ballots nearly three weeks before the official ...

Port Releases Environmental Report on Convention Center Expansion

The Port of San Diego went public yesterday with a draft Environmental Impact Report on a proposed expansion of the San Diego Convention Center and the neighboring Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel. The convention center ...

Department of Corrections Wants Control of Its Medical Facilities Back

Last week the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation asked a federal judge to return control of prison medical facilities to the state, claiming that sufficient improvements had been made to guarantee inmates health care ...

Fire Danger, Missing Documents at San Onofre

A new report out yesterday commissioned by the environmental group Friends of the Earth questions the wisdom of resuming operations at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station under reduced load. Meanwhile, former plant workers are alleging ...

Local Firm Predicts Uptick in Housing Sales

San Diego based Showing Suite Inc. says that its data on the level of showing activity, which tracks the frequency and total number of times homes are shown to prospective buyers, provide a reliable indicator ...

UCSD: Smoking Marijuana Offers Benefits to MS Patients

Smoking marijuana may be an effective treatment for pain and spasticity experienced by multiple sclerosis patients, the UC San Diego School of Medicine says in a new report. The study, published in the Canadian Medical ...

Local Firm Ranks Other Local Retirement Plans

BrightScope Inc., which bills itself as “a leading provider of independent financial information and investment research,” has released a list ranking the 21 San Diego companies with 401k plans containing more than $100 million in ...

Tubes Plugged at San Onofre, Seismic Studies to Move Forward

Southern California Edison has moved forward with a plan first reported last week to take more than 1,300 tubes in the steam generators at San Onofre Nuclear Generating station offline. A total of 510 tubes ...

VA Field Office Audit Finds Errors in Disability Payments, Failure to Offer Mental Disorder Treatment

A report released Thursday from the Veterans Administration Office of Inspector General found several shortcomings at the VA’s San Diego regional field office. While most of the seven areas of findings were related to clerical ...

Utilities, Solar Industry Spar Over "Net Metering"

The California Public Utilities Commission is close to acting on a proposed ruling entered last month which could significantly affect the state’s solar power industry and the number of consumers allowed to participate in a ...

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