Staff Blog Entries

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 ...

City council to pay $175,000 check to a man who fell on a shoddy sidewalk in San Ysidro

The segment of sidewalk near Smythe Elementary has long been an issue in the community.

This fall marks two years since Ubaldo Gutierrez fell off his bicycle while riding on a shoddy sidewalk near Smythe ...

Ex-San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor due back in court on Thursday

O'Connor will appear in court for a case filed by her sister's former husband over the sale of a Mendocino luxury hotel

Former San Diego mayor Maureen O'Connor is due back in court on Thursday, or, at least her lawyers will be ...

Lawsuit aims to prevent massive wall signs from being allowed in City

San Diegans for Open Government filed a lawsuit against the City of San Diego and Westfield LLC for trying to scuttle current zoning laws.

The signs point to a showdown in court. Last week, San Diegans for Open Government, a non-profit government watchdog group, ...

Lorena Gonzalez rakes in more than $160,000 in campaign contributions in five month span

Union-head Lorena Gonzalez far ahead of her opponent Steve Castaneda in campaign donations.

Chief executive of the San Diego and Imperial County Labor Union and now state assembly candidate, Lorena Gonzalez, is proving ...

Council sets date to discuss draft medical marijuana ordinance

Draft ordinance improves access from 2011 ordinance.

Proponents and patients of medical marijuana in San Diego will finally get a chance to voice support for a new ...

City accused of not releasing public documents, sued for violating public records act

SCI Consulting filed lawsuit on Superior Court alleging the City witheld public information.

The bad blood between the City of San Diego and a maintenance assessment consulting firm it once hired is flowing ...

Mayor Filner proposes cutting City Attorney budget. City Attorney responds with $2,500 gift to Republican Party

Goldsmith's latest disclosure shows a $2,500 donation to the local GOP party one day after Filner releases draft budget proposal

Mayor Bob Filner's proposal to pay for additional public services by cutting more than $1 million from City Attorney Jan ...

Food truck operators accuse the City of San Diego of harassment in new lawsuit

Code compliance officers now issuing citations to all food trucks, even those on private property

Code enforcement officers in San Diego have been busy serving up a wide assortment of citations to food trucks throughout ...

Settlement reached in City's lawsuit over downtown assessment district's errant engineer's report

Court documents show the City Attorney and SCI Consulting have come to terms in case of overcharged assessments on Property-based Improvement District

The mess over a faulty engineer's report which resulted in thousands of downtown residents being overcharged hundreds of thousands of ...

Mayor Filner calls on City Attorney Goldsmith to drop the lawsuit against City retirement system

Mayor and SDCERS president Herb Morgan will appear tomorrow to issue a public request to Goldsmith

Just when all the tensions between Mayor Bob Filner and City Attorney Jan Goldsmith over the Tourist Marketing District started ...

Save Our Heritage Organisation defends The Castle, sues City Council to return building's historical designation

Lawsuit filed on April 8th looks to overturn appeal granted by city council.

Fresh off their victory over the Plaza de Panama project, historic preservation group Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO) is heading ...

Development Impact Fees to drop in Mission Valley

More units coming to Mission Valley means developers will pay less per unit.

On Tuesday, city councilmembers will decide whether to decrease the amount in fees that developers are required to pay for ...

City Attorney weighs in on formation of downtown arts and entertainment district

Suggests a pilot program as a way to discover any future legal liabilities

Brighter lights; same city. That may be the case if the City decides to move forward with turning a 65-block ...

City and Police Chief sued for civil rights violations at Children's Pool in La Jolla

Man says police targeted him for his pro-seal views.

Children's Pool isn't just a safe spot for Harbor Seals to breed and raise pups. It also is a first-rate ...

City Attorney finds a way to bypass court ruling against Plaza de Panama Project

Project can be exempt if the application is amended. If approved, even mayoral veto may not be able to stop it.

Legal or not here the bypass bridge comes. In coming weeks it appears that San Diego's city councilmembers will revisit ...