Art history, Korean beef at The Prado
“San Diego’s greatest sculptor, yet people like you don’t even know him.”
Ed Bedford 3:30 p.m., Oct. 16
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Summer Stephan untangles herself from San Diego Republicans
Adios, Lincoln Club
The traditionally Republican bastion known as the Lincoln Club of San Diego County, which has long denied being partisan, now can boast of a flesh-and-blood independent among the raft of GOP candidates it has boosted ...
SDSU science labs still unsafe for students
"We found a chemical spill that had been only partially cleaned"
Can San Diego State University be taken at its word? Not necessarily, judging by a September 13 report by California State University vice-chancellor and chief audit officer Larry Mandel. The audit dings SDSU – currently ...
Faulconer paid $4000 ethics penalty with campaign cash
San Diego mayor 's 2016 political committee covered dinner, airfare, public relations
As San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer tours California in search of good ink and his next elective office, he's dipped into his mayoral campaign fund to pay for some personal baggage at home. Weeks after ...
Doug Manchester 's PR disaster tour
Ex-U-T publisher hits TV news trail promoting Bahamian relief and himself
Former Union-Tribune owner Douglas Manchester, his appointment by Republican President Donald Trump to be ambassador to the Bahamas stalled for over two years in a GOP Senate, has been promoting his charitable good work on ...
No-name no-bid contract cost San Diego millions, city auditor charges
“Solicitations from other vendors were intentionally ignored or actively rejected”
Suspicious circumstances involving a multi-million-dollar, no-bid data processing contract awarded by the administration of lame-duck mayor Kevin Faulconer without city council approval has drawn scrutiny from interim city auditor Kyle Elser. A September 11 audit ...
Irwin Jacobs' $9.9 million drives granddaughter’s House hopes
49th to 53rd Congressional District jump
With the abrupt retirement of House Democrat Susan Davis, followed shortly afterwards by the declaration of Sara Jacobs as a candidate in California's 53rd district, eyes are turning to her billionaire grandfather for clues to ...
Tales of a dead fixer and Gina Champion-Cain
SEC alleges investor fraud by top Todd Gloria funder
Political fate and coincidence sometimes meet in mysterious ways, as witnessed in the uncanny timing of the July 24 death of George Mitrovich at 84, followed soon after by the troubles of Gina Champion-Cain. Like ...
Where Toni Atkins meets turf lobbyists
Horse racing cash greases Democrat’s political track
As horses have dropped dead at California tracks, some state politicos have been professing public concern regarding racing's public relations nightmare, including state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins. Atkins showed up at Del Mar ...
Kaiser to face largest strike anywhere in 20 years
Union claims company made $5.2 billion in profits in the first six months of 2019
The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions warned in an August 12 press release they are planning the “nation’s largest walkout since 1997.” Coalition spokesman Sean Wherley says over 80,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in six states ...
O.C. billionaire Samueli beats out Philip Anschutz for San Diego Sports Arena
Lobbyists work the city council
Round one of a high-dollar lobbying war over who will control what was formerly known as the San Diego Sports Arena – for now named Pechanga – has concluded, with the win going to some ...
Faulconer ethics fine revealed after Campland bags sweetheart lease
Mayor forks over $4000 for 16-month disclosure delay
Intrigue surrounding the June 24 city council vote for Campland, LLC's five-year sweetheart leasehold extension for choice Mission Bay frontage has deepened with a $4000 fine levied against Kevin Faulconer by the city's ethics commission ...
Drug War reparations tanked by San Diego's city attorney
Can't earmark marijuana tax for cannabis equity fund
Two San Diego city council members exploring ways to tap the city's $12 million annual marijuana tax haul are likely out of the money, based on a July 31 memo from City Attorney Mara Elliott. ...
County supervisors face heat on 5G rules
They claim FCC ties their hands
On August 7, after months of meetings and tinkering with different plans for 5G regulations, county supervisors chose a path. The new rules will guide the placement of next generation technology in the unincorporated areas, ...
Gavin Newsom carries water for billionaire benefactor
Qualcomm's Irwin Jacobs lines up behind Gloria mayoral bid
The word that California governor Gavin Newsom has endorsed Assemblyman Todd Gloria for San Diego mayor has cemented the reputation of Irwin Jacobs as the city's top political moneyman and would-be city hall kingmaker. Backstage ...
VA mutes ventilator alarm, paralyzed patient dies
San Diego hospital hit by audit for spinal cord injury victim's death
Sloppy supervision, a muted alarm, and lack of training led to the suffocation death of a severely paralyzed patient at San Diego's Veterans Administration hospital last year when an alarm failed to sound after a ...
