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Ex-Charger set for $1.35 million city payout in police brutality case

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Infamous Las Vegas name behind $1500 in Gloria post-election cash

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Sara Jacobs extends House District 53's foreign junketing

In January, she succeeded Susan Davis, one of the top free foreign travelers in the U.S. House of Representatives. Now fellow Democrat Sara Jacobs has wasted no time taking her ...

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Ex-Charger set for $1.35 million city payout in police brutality case

In a little-noticed move, the San Diego city council is set to pay former San Diego Chargers defensive back Michael C. Lee $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit brought by ...

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Disclosure-shy developers draw hand-slap ethics fine

As a torrent of cash from out-of-town developers gushed into the campaign coffers of a San Diego ballot proposition ostensibly meant to boost low-cost housing with a property tax hike, ...

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Infamous Las Vegas name behind $1500 in Gloria post-election cash

San Diego and Las Vegas have had a long, wild history together. Besides the mobbed-up Moe Dalitz's La Costa resorts, San Diego County has played host to marginal figures who ...

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County taxpayers may foot bill for Lawson-Remer's ex-Faulconer aide

Whether Democrat or Republican, San Diego politicos are infamous for taking care of each other at local taxpayers' expense. Freshman San Diego County supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer, widely billed as a liberal Democrat, furnishes the latest ...

April 6, 2021

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Union-Tribune's new voice from the north is Soon-Shiong's daughter

While staffers nervously speculate whether Union-Tribune owner Patrick Soon-Shiong will block the purchase of Chicago-based Tribune Publishing by hedge fund Alden Capital, the usually muted billionaire has unleashed his fury against American racism. Thursday's rebuke ...

April 5, 2021

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March 29, 2021

Exec’s talk fuels more rumors of Union-Tribune's doom

A widely anticipated "all hands" California Times staff meeting on Thursday failed to produce any good news other than a declaration by president Chris Argentieri that the Los Angeles Times was closer to the end ...

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March 25, 2021

A chip off Faulconer’s donor

A Bakersfield-based potato magnate has kicked in $32,400 to the putative California gubernatorial campaign of ex-San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, bringing fresh attention to domestic violence allegations bought against his partner and fellow San Joaquin ...

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March 18, 2021

As San Diego county dodged minimum wage, elderly suffered

Should San Diegans who provide home care services to the elderly and others get at least the minimum wage? So posits an audit by California State Auditor Elaine Howle, which charges officials here with ignoring ...

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March 9, 2021

Look out, Union-Tribune. Alden Global Capital may be just around the corner.

Will a lawsuit spawned in San Diego by the wheeling and dealings of Patrick Soon-Shiong ultimately force the Los Angeles billionaire to divest himself of the San Diego Union-Tribune, as well as the L.A. Times ...

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March 5, 2021

Lobbyist deletes Bry-tied anti-short term rental client

One of the shortest lobbying gigs in San Diego city hall's history has ended less than two weeks after it formally began, amidst intrigue about ex-councilwoman Barbara Bry's role in one of her wealthy husband's ...

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March 1, 2021

Union-Tribune’s Californian Local targets Temecula

A proposal to sell the Tribune Publishing chain, formerly known as Tronc, to controversial hedge fund Alden Capital Management has spawned a morass of bad online times for Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the Los Angeles ...

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Barbara Bry's husband hangs up on reporter

A so-called data mining outfit with a specialty of busting short-term vacation rentals has retained ex-San Diego Republican city councilman Jim Madaffer to lobby the city for a contract to use its services, per a ...

February 23, 2021

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San Diego's climate change plan flying blind, auditor says

San Diego's so-called Climate Action Plan, frequently ballyhooed by ex-mayor Kevin Faulconer as part of his self-styled middle-of-the-road campaign to become California governor, lacks city council accountability and risks unknown expenses for taxpayers per a ...

February 19, 2021

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February 16, 2021

Trump and Hunter donors kick in for Faulconer's governor try

Another top California donor to last year's reelection campaign for Donald Trump is backing the California gubernatorial hopes of San Diego ex-mayor Kevin Faulconer. Probity International, a real estate development outfit run by Robert Zarnegin ...

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February 8, 2021

Covid-19 and the infection of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt

A heavily redacted report by the Inspector General's office of the U.S. Department of Defense has critical words for the Navy and the leadership of the San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt, one of two warships ...

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Sara Jacobs extends House District 53's foreign junketing

Ex-Charger set for $1.35 million city payout in police brutality case

Disclosure-shy developers draw hand-slap ethics fine

Infamous Las Vegas name behind $1500 in Gloria post-election cash

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