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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

February 8, 2021

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New Yorker Al Sharpton trashes San Diego's paramedic selection

A national political figure has parachuted into San Diego's decades-long big-money war over which paramedic provider should get the city's exclusive contract, virtually guaranteeing another heated round of racially charged wheeling and dealing. "San Diego ...

February 8, 2021

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February 2, 2021

Ash Street figures pour post-election cash into city campaign

The Cinderella story of last year's November San Diego city council runoff is that of Sean Elo-Rivera, the Ninth District candidate who beat labor candidate Kelvin Barrios, forced from the race as campaign finance chargespiled ...

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January 28, 2021

La Jolla mega-mansion owner digs deep for Faulconer

Ex-San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, facing a daunting array of well-heeled Republican challengers to his bid to become governor in the face of a possible recall of Democratic incumbent Gavin Newsom, has hit the money ...

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January 25, 2021

San Diego lobbying payments set to hit $1.7 million

Having been given new social justice marching orders, two lobbying firms for San Diego are set to be re-upped at a hefty six-figure cost to taxpayers by new Democratic Mayor Todd Gloria and his city ...

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January 19, 2021

Billion-dollar debt booster nabs stem cell spot

During fall's ballot battle for Proposition 14 furnishing another $5.5 billion in state bond funding to keep the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine afloat, it seemed to many like UC San Diego Health neuroscientist Larry ...

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January 12, 2021

SDG&E covers Chris Cate's good works

A staunch city council ally in the battle by Sempra Energy's San Diego Gas & Electric to hang onto its lucrative local electrical energy monopoly has gotten a financial boost from the utility giant in ...

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January 11, 2021

Campaign staffers get Todd Gloria patronage jobs

A raft of political professionals has found a haven at San Diego city hall from the storm of post-campaign unemployment, as documented by recent online disclosures posted by the city clerk's office. Reversing years of ...

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Recall pending, Faulconer pivots hard against Newsom

His putative runway to state power shortened by an accelerating movement among California conservatives to recall Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, formerly genial Kevin Faulconer is taking off the gloves - sort of - on Twitter. ...

January 1, 2021

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ICE’s private prison in Calexico draws auditor’s ire

A Calexico detention center run for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by a controversial Utah contractor has received a blistering review from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General, which found that inmates ...

December 24, 2020

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December 21, 2020

Sempra's last-minute money fueled anti-Bry hit campaign

A torrent of October campaign cash accompanying San Diego Gas & Electric's sole bid to remain the city's exclusive gas and electricity supplier for the next two decades is likely to carry the day for ...

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December 14, 2020

Tying Bry to Trump cost donors more than $1.3 million

It's been no secret among inside political observers that the big gorilla of the San Diego's election season this year was a so-called independent expenditure committee calling itself Neighbors for Housing Solutions Supporting Todd Gloria ...

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Union-Tribune’s Californian Local targets Temecula

Barbara Bry's husband hangs up on reporter

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

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

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