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Dirty Birds proprietor cuts $500 deal with ethics commission

Stacey Fulhorst, the recently retired Executive Director of the city's ethics commission, ended her seventeen-year tenure in office with a whimper in the form of a $500 settlement with city ...

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Sports Arena redeveloper delinquent on $190 million loan

A unit of the Toronto investment behemoth that bankrolled the demise of San Diego's Midway area height limit in the form of this month's successful Measure E is falling short ...

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Six-figure salaries marked Faulconer’s costly patronage

While city council Democrats are bickering in public over which of them will become the next council president, a quieter transition is about to occur regarding who will run the ...

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Borderland Beat shut down

Borderland Beat, one of the best resources for current and accurate information on Mexico’s bloody drug wars – and its key players – has shut down its website in response ...

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Faulconer aide ran private political business in months before leaving office

A top aide to Kevin Faulconer, who left his high-ranking job in the San Diego mayor's office on October 2, has been consulting for the campaign for Measure E, bankrolled by Canadian real estate giant ...

November 3, 2020

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AM-PM magnates with Trump ties give big to Hueso cause

The wife of one of Donald Trump's most stalwart California backers is channeling last-minute cash into a so-called independent expenditure committee aiding state senate Democrat Ben Hueso's bid for San Diego county supervisor. Susana Chandi, ...

November 2, 2020

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October 26, 2020

Toronto real estate giant is funder behind killing height limit

A secretive, Canada-based global development giant, backed by cash from Qatar among other shadowy investors, is the primary backer of San Diego's Measure E, a proposal on next month's ballot to lift building height limits ...

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October 19, 2020

California Democratic Party reaps Sempra cash windfall

Sempra Energy, whose San Diego Gas & Electric subsidiary is battling the likes of Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett to keep its long-held power monopoly here, is setting new records for feathering political nests. At the ...

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October 13, 2020

National City clerk’s job up for grabs in big money campaign

When voters in National City turned down a ballot measure to make the city clerk's job no longer an elected position in March, they set off a big-money November battle for the formerly low-profile seat, ...

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October 12, 2020

San Diego's Chamber of Commerce caught in a bind

Jerry Sanders, chief executive officer of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, has come out against the property tax increase, Proposition 15, so describing the mission of the chamber’s political action committee becomes easier. ...

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October 9, 2020

Jeff Light's dead predecessor and the Kennedy-Nixon debates

In February of 2007, Herb Klein, the Union-Tribune's retired editor-in-chief and longtime aide to Richard Nixon, sat down in San Diego for one last oral history for the Nixon presidential library. Klein would die at ...

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October 5, 2020

Todd Gloria gets money from 101 Ash

The 101 Ash Street building is turning into a major player – and the players have been major payers in the coming – and past – mayoral elections. While Todd Gloria’s campaign has gained tens ...

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$50K from San Bernardino fuels San Diego tax hike bid

Proponents of Measure A to boost San Diego property taxes for a bevy of subsidized housing efforts have found the fight tough going. The latest blow came October 1 with a Union-Tribune editorial condemning the ...

October 2, 2020

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San Diego watersheds trashed by street sweeping negligence

An avalanche of trash and pollutants is threatening San Diego streets and watersheds during the waning days of Mayor Kevin Faulconer's tenure for reasons including chronic street sweeping negligence, per a report by interim city ...

September 24, 2020

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September 22, 2020

Audit hits lack of athletic admissions integrity at UC San Diego

A searing review by California State Auditor Elaine Howle has blasted admission practices at the University of California's top campuses, including UCSD, saying they "unfairly admitted 64 applicants based on their personal or family connections ...

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September 15, 2020

More sex harassment history behind Todd Gloria’s Capitol campaign cash

A controversial Los Angeles legislator turned lobbyist is among the latest big donors to Assembly Democrat Todd Gloria's bid to become San Diego mayor, city campaign finance records show. Sebastian Ridley-Thomas, an Assembly Democrat who ...

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Dirty Birds proprietor cuts $500 deal with ethics commission

Sports Arena redeveloper delinquent on $190 million loan

Six-figure salaries marked Faulconer’s costly patronage

Borderland Beat shut down

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