The Mitchell Caverns: California's sacred caves
Explore these ancient limestone caverns a 4.5-hour drive north in the Mojave.
James Michael Dorsey 8:56 p.m., April 22
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Ace friend seeks Horton Plaza deal
Mall's collapse could prove costly for taxpayers
Downtown's Horton Plaza shopping mall, which used millions of tax dollars to level acres of historic buildings in the late 1970s, has itself been hollowing out of late. Multiple levels of vacant storefronts bear grim ...
County unemployment rate drops in March
We're a full percentage point lower than state’s
March unemployment for San Diego County dropped to 3.2 percent, a full percentage point lower than the overall state rate, according to the California Employment Development Department. The county gained 3300 nonfarm jobs in March ...
Ailing Qualcomm to undergo big layoff
A thousand could be let go
Qualcomm, which just recently was saved from a foreign takeover, began laying off employees today (April 18), according to media reports. Bloomberg, which appears to have broken the story, says the number could hit 1000. ...
The juicy Trump-Cohen-Russia story
Michael Cohen’s father and uncle hung around the Russian Mafiya in New York
The April 10 issue of Rolling Stone features an intriguing story, “A Brief History of Michael Cohen’s Criminal Ties” by Seth Hettena, who lives in San Diego with his wife and sons. The subtitle of ...
Cate hits up city workers, pays another fine
Councilman concedes further ethical transgressions
With investigators of the California Attorney General's office still looking into his leak of a confidential memo to lobbyist contributors, San Diego city councilman Chris Cate has agreed to pay yet another fine for breaking ...
CalPERS buys boatload of Bridgepoint stock
Public employees boost holdings by 112.4 percent
The California Public Employeees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the nation’s largest pension fund, in last year’s fourth quarter boosted its stake in San Diego-based Bridgeport Education by 112.4 percent, according to the company’s most recent filing ...
Was Soon-Shiong outsmarted?
U-T's cult-of-personality profile jumps deal's gun
Sunday, April 15 was the Union-Tribune's celebration day for Los Angeles physician Patrick Soon-Shiong, the paper's putative new owner, also set to acquire the L.A. Times from the oddly named and deeply troubled tronc, Inc. ...
Papa Doug won’t get Bahamas job
Local paper says he will be beaten out
Last February, the Washington Post reported that Douglas “Papa Doug” Manchester, real estate developer and former owner of the Union-Tribune, had an “unsettling management style,” according to a number of former female U-T employees, who ...
Tronc turmoil threatens Union-Tribune sale
New billionaire buyer surfaces as prospective owner
Who's on first at troubled tronc, and does it matter anymore to what appears to be an increasingly desperate attempt to save the last vestiges of San Diego's only daily newspaper? From the New York ...
Sports in San Diego is not a way of life
Why The Fan radio will have tough time
The news that shock jock Kevin Klein was fired before he even started his first day on the new “97-3 The Machine” was not surprising to photographer Jesse Cuevas. He took the shot of the ...
Cox mobilizes ex-Peters influence-peddlers
Cable company files to lobby against net neutrality
A nascent movement at city hall to do away with Cox Communication's cable and internet monopoly in the name of so-called net neutrality appears to have the Georgia-based giant's lobbying contingent here scrambling for the ...
Lawyer Michael Cohen raided by FBI
It’s not San Diego lawyer Michael Cohen
As everyone knows by now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation today (April 9) raided the office of Michael Cohen, one of President Trump’s attorneys. The agency raided other locations where Cohen might keep his records. ...
Tony Robbins attacked #MeToo at lecture
Words went viral and he backed down
Tony Robbins, the self-help guru and life philosopher, has gotten a lesson on life. It recently came out that in a San Jose seminar last month, he had scolded women for the #MeToo movement. A ...
Solana Beach nexus for border resistance
Catholic church meeting of responders
A little over three months after launching a volunteer-driven campaign to shield undocumented San Diegans from immigration action and assist those caught up in raids, the San Diego Rapid Response Network held its second official ...
Douglass Jennings, disbarred tax lawyer, gets 34 months
His wife Peggy, real estate operator, gets 4 months
In the packed federal courtroom of Judge Gonzalo Curiel yesterday (April 5), attorney John Douglass Jennings Jr. was sentenced to 34 months in prison, while his wife Peggy, who worked in real estate, got four ...
