Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Political housing
The employer of Dorothy Surdi (top), Sperry Van Ness, gave to campaigns of Lorie Zapf (right), Chris Cate (bottom), and Kevin Faulconer (top), who subsequently appointed her to the housing commission.
Ex–city councilman and former weekly newspaper owner Jim Madaffer has turned to a new trade. According to an October 10 lobbyist disclosure statement filed at city hall, he’s now peddling influence for real estate developer Douglas Wilson. …
Mayor Kevin Faulconer continues to bolster his political machine by rewarding campaign contributors with city board posts. The latest is Dorothy Surdi, a commercial real estate broker appointed by the mayor to the San Diego Housing Commission, “Ms. Surdi is a commercial real estate advisor with the Sperry Van Ness network where she specializes in investment sales and leasing representation for landlords and tenants,” according to a September 26 memorandum. City campaign contribution records show that Sperry Van Ness employees gave $1300 to Faulconer’s mayoral campaign, including Surdi with $100. Sperry Van Ness employees have also so far contributed $825 to the campaign of downtown lobbyist Chris Cate for city council and $550 to the successful reelection bid of councilwoman Lorie Zapf, both Faulconer allies. …
Duty Free Americas, the big customs operation run by the billionaire Falic family of Florida, continues its press for a lavish new commercial complex at the border here. On October 13, brother Simon Falic gave $1500 to the 2014 San Ysidro school-board reelection campaign of Jason Wells. Executive director of the San Ysidro Chamber of Commerce, Wells has become a big booster of the Falic project. “This is parking for my stores, my businesses,” he told U-T San Diego in June.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Political housing
Political housing
The employer of Dorothy Surdi (top), Sperry Van Ness, gave to campaigns of Lorie Zapf (right), Chris Cate (bottom), and Kevin Faulconer (top), who subsequently appointed her to the housing commission.
Ex–city councilman and former weekly newspaper owner Jim Madaffer has turned to a new trade. According to an October 10 lobbyist disclosure statement filed at city hall, he’s now peddling influence for real estate developer Douglas Wilson. …
Mayor Kevin Faulconer continues to bolster his political machine by rewarding campaign contributors with city board posts. The latest is Dorothy Surdi, a commercial real estate broker appointed by the mayor to the San Diego Housing Commission, “Ms. Surdi is a commercial real estate advisor with the Sperry Van Ness network where she specializes in investment sales and leasing representation for landlords and tenants,” according to a September 26 memorandum. City campaign contribution records show that Sperry Van Ness employees gave $1300 to Faulconer’s mayoral campaign, including Surdi with $100. Sperry Van Ness employees have also so far contributed $825 to the campaign of downtown lobbyist Chris Cate for city council and $550 to the successful reelection bid of councilwoman Lorie Zapf, both Faulconer allies. …
Duty Free Americas, the big customs operation run by the billionaire Falic family of Florida, continues its press for a lavish new commercial complex at the border here. On October 13, brother Simon Falic gave $1500 to the 2014 San Ysidro school-board reelection campaign of Jason Wells. Executive director of the San Ysidro Chamber of Commerce, Wells has become a big booster of the Falic project. “This is parking for my stores, my businesses,” he told U-T San Diego in June.
Comments