Staff Blog Entries

Carmel Valley Planning Group to Discuss One Paseo Mixed-Use Project

At the monthly meeting of the Carmel Valley Planning Group set for tonight, residents of Carmel Valley will have a chance to give their thoughts on One Paseo, a mixed-use project proposed for the intersection ...

San Diego Unified's Efforts to Secure Administration Building

Faced with a projected $122 million deficit for next fiscal year, spending is not all that San Diego Unified is tightening. The district is also tightening security at the Education Center in Normal Heights. Since ...

New and Improved Jack In The Box For North Park Moving Forward

A proposal to build a new Jack in the Box restaurant on the corner of Upas and 30th Avenue in North Park is moving forward in the permitting process. Yesterday, the City's Development Services Department ...

The High Price of a Free Education

The price of a free education has risen in the past few years. As state legislators continue to take from education to balance the budget, the amount of school fees has increased. Often parents are ...

Lawrence and Suzanne Hess Gave $294,000 in Political Donations

Super PACs have become the underbelly of American politics, a way that wealthy donors can give unlimited donations on behalf of candidates and political causes. In San Diego, a good deal of soft money, $145,000 ...

Trustees From San Diego Unified Hear Opposition to Selling Barnard Elementary

Last week, San Diego Unified's Advisory Committee for Utilization of Excess School Property voted in favor of selling seven unneeded properties for some much-needed cash. And as we reported yesterday, the estimated $122 million deficit ...

San Diego Unified's Real Estate Sale Now One Step Closer

San Diego Unified School District is now one step closer to selling seven properties in order to obtain some much needed cash. On Thursday May 10, San Diego Unified's Advisory Committee on Utilization of Excess ...

Republican Presidential Candidate Fred Karger Runs Ads in San Diego

Move over, Mitt, there's another Republican presidential candidate hoping to swoon San Diego's conservative voters. At least for one week in late April there was. Starting on April 26 ending on May 3, Republican candidate ...

Poway Woman Forced to Surrender Wild Birds to State Wildlife Officials

You can say that Dr. Lindy O'Leary's seven-year battle with the state's Fish and Game Department was all for the birds. Today, after years of fighting and hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney fees ...

National Park Service Opposes Plaza de Panama Project

The National Park Service has come out against Irwin Jacobs's plan to clear traffic from the Plaza de Panama in Balboa Park by constructing a Cabrillo Bridge bypass road that would lead to a new ...

San Diegans Give Big to Romney Super PAC but Not to Obama's

Residents of San Diego and surrounding cities continue to shell out major cash to Mitt Romney's super PAC, Restore Our Future. According to campaign finance reports, Thomas Sudberry, owner of San Diego-based Sudberry Properties, has ...

Maienschein Loans Campaign $60,000

Brian Maienschein's campaign for state assembly is sitting on some serious cash. According to campaign finance reports, Maienschein has an ending balance of $166,218. That's nearly nine times the amount that his closest opponent (Dustin ...

San Diego Unified Looks to Sell Properties

For San Diego Unified, desperate times call for drastic budget measures. Officials at San Diego Unified are searching to bridge next year's projected $120 million budget shortfall and avoid laying off thousands of teachers and ...

Councilmember Sherri Lightner's Campaign Receives Thousands From One Paseo Developer

Representatives from Kilroy Realty have gone out of their way to gain support from Carmel Valley residents for their 1,857,440 square-square foot development project One Paseo, Carmel Valley's largest development to date. But residents have ...

City Attorney Jan Goldsmith's Campaign Committee Donates $25,000 to Romney Super PAC

City Attorney Jan Goldsmith is one of three San Diegans to have donated to Mitt Romney's super PAC, Restore Our Future. According to a federal Election Commission disclosure report, on March 31, Goldsmith moved $25,000 ...

Uptown Planners to Discuss Transitional Housing Facility for Combat Veterans

Battle lines have been drawn in Old Town over a proposal to build a transitional housing facility for combat veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For months, community members and administrators of the ...

Television Stations Now Required to Post Political Ad Files Online

For the past few weeks I have been visiting television stations and cable providers and asking to view political ad buys made by mayoral candidates, and others. The law requires these ads be made available ...

Dueling DeMaio Ads: Both Carl DeMaio and Anti-DeMaio Group Buying TV Time

It's official, Councilmember Carl DeMaio's ad campaign has begun. One day after unveiling his new ad on FOX, DeMaio has dozens of contracts out at San Diego's five largest television stations, ABC, CBS, KUSI, FOX, ...

San Diego Execs Meet Nathan Fletcher In The Middle

San Diego's version of a Super PAC has hit the middle ground and is running. Today, a group of successful San Diego business and community leaders announced the launch of "Movement to the Middle." "We ...

Carl DeMaio Launches Television Ad Campaign

Today, appearing on Fox5, Carl DeMaio premiered his new television ad, which features him leading a group of supporters while touting his push for pension reform and his opposition to the defeated sales tax measure. ...

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