Staff Blog Entries

New lawsuit challenges Todd Gloria's pledge to open government

San Diegans for Open Government want the Council President to turn over all emails and text messages from his personal device that pertain to City business

Just how transparent is Council President Todd Gloria? Not very, according to city watchdog group San Diegans for Open Government. ...

Grand Jury dings San Diego Unified for not having a policy in place to address adult-on-student bullying

School district has until August to respond to findings.

San Diego Unified School District isn't doing enough to prevent adults and teachers from bullying children, says a recently released ...

City Attorney prepares council for a vote on increased water rates

Public Utilities Department may seek approval from City Council for a five-year increase

San Diego's City Attorney is already looking for legal justification for what appears to be an upcoming pitch to increase ...

Councilmember Lorie Zapf announces run for District 2 seat

Zapf will be running for her second-first term as District 2 representative.

It's official, first term councilmember Lorie Zapf is running for council in 2014. On May 8, Zapf filed papers with ...

Woman sues Sheriff's Deputy and Department after she was shot in her own backyard

Jennifer Orey was shot outside her house while deputies searched for a suspected prowler.

One day after the August 19, 2012 shooting, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore told KGTV the bullet fired by ...

In just one day, labor-council chief Lorena Gonzalez collects nearly $20,000 in campaign contributions

Unions and other union affiliated committees continue to be the source for Gonzalez's large campaign chest

The week got off to a stellar start for Lorena Gonzalez and her run for State Assembly. On Monday, May ...

Teacher's Association and State labor union donates $100,000 to committee against Steve Castaneda

Unions continue to spend big in race for 80th Assembly district seat

It's no stretch to say that the unions will be backing Lorena Gonzalez in her run for State Assembly against ...

City sues Regional Water Board over fuel tank spill near Qualcomm Stadium

City says water officials were wrong to grant permission of 1.26 million extraction effort.

1.26 million gallons; that's the amount of groundwater that Kinder Morgan would like to extract from the MIssion Valley Aquifer ...

San Diego Unified School District and Talmadge residents once again square off over issue of stadium lighting

SDUSD officials are forced to revisit stadium lighting after an appeals court ruled that the environmental review was insufficient and did not fall under Proposition S improvements.

It wasn't the first time that dozens of Talmage residents took seats inside Hoover High School auditorium to discuss the ...

Grand Jury finds San Diego Unified School District's website too political

Grand Jury report says San Diego Unified had political messages on website. District officials blame insufficient staffing.

San Diego Unified School District's website is meant to educate and inform the public of its policies not its politics. ...

City Auditor says City and Zoo can keep better track of property tax revenues

City Auditor suggest better monitoring of property tax revenues used by San Diego Zoo

The San Diego Zoo is essentially on the lamb...rather lam...free to do whatever it chooses with $10.5 million a year ...

State Supreme Court grants cities the authority to ban Medical Marijuana dispensaries

Today's decision states that citywide zoning restrictions are not in violation of Compassionate Use Act

Call it a blow, a hit, a pot shot, regardless of which clever play on words you choose, all describe ...

Woman sues City of San Diego for excessive force by police officer during a Chargers game

Woman claims she suffered a broken jaw, concussion, and was shot with a stun gun during her first Charger game.

As if it wasn't painful enough seeing a Chargers game last year, throw in a broken jaw, a concussion, and ...

Potential conflict of interest for planning commissioner whose spouse works at land-use consultant firm?

Ted Shaw works for land-use consultant Atlantis Group which represents major developers trying to push projects through city hall.

San Diego City Planning Commissioners have almost always had some ties to developers or some level of interest in new ...

City agrees to $120,000 settlement in lawsuit over downtown PBID overcharges

City council agreed to end the lawsuit during an April 16 closed session meeting.

During a closed session meeting last week, San Diego city councilmembers approved the settlement offer from SCI Consulting for mistakes ...

Mobile home parks give big to San Diego Democratic Party which in turn gives $20,000 to Mayor Filner

Four mobile home associations gave a total of $12,000 to the SD Democrats on April 26

Mobile home park associations are moving in the same direction as the Democratic Party. An April 29 filing from the ...

State Auditor gives City's development services department poor grade on protection of historical resources and public notification

State auditor recommended more be done to protect historical resources.

The City of San Diego's Development Services Department received a few bad scores in an audit from the California State ...

Judge denies San Diego Unified's request to rehear case over Hoover High's new stadium lights

District's motion for retrial is denied.

The lights at the end of the stadium tunnel are beginning to grow dim in San Diego Unified School District's ...

Proposed ordinance would outlaw the sale of pets raised at commercial breeding facilities

The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee to discuss ban on sale of puppy mill puppies at upcoming committee meeting.

A city council committee is taking the lead in an effort to outlaw pet shops from selling companion animals that ...

Fourteen Barrio Logan property owners represented 70 percent of vote needed to establish new Barrio Logan Maintenance Assessment District

Majority of residents, 54% voted against the MAD

The Barrio Logan Association, the non-profit that will control the newly formed "Community Benefit Maintenance Assessment District," is eager to ...