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Back of KPBS line – A Way With Words, Fresh Air, Lawrence Welk

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Faulconer political brain zaps Trump, leaves top GOP job

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Escondido's hidden gems of influence

Huell Howser, the folksy host of public television's California's Gold, who died in 2014, may be spinning in his grave, but a top North County politico wants to emulate him ...

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Back of KPBS line – A Way With Words, Fresh Air, Lawrence Welk

Retired educator Doug Knox is a fan of KPBS radio/TV. As a $100-a-month supporter of the non-commercial stations, he's in the KPBS Producer's Club. KPBS thanks those members by giving ...

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Father Joe Carroll: death of a transactional cleric

A Last Hurrah of sorts comes tomorrow morning, July 20, at St. Rita's Catholic Church with a funeral Mass to be presided over by San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy. Father ...

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Faulconer political brain zaps Trump, leaves top GOP job

Jason Cabel Roe, the onetime political eyes, ears, and, some say, brain of GOP San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, is out as executive director of Michigan's Republican Party. "I resigned ...

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Sara Jacobs stock sell-off could be as much as $2.8 million

As the stock market reaches near record highs, wealthy House Democrat Sara Jacobs of San Diego unloaded a raft of personal shareholdings, some potentially controversial, per a May 28 Periodic Transaction Report filed with the ...

July 6, 2021

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Lorena Gonzalez's big June fundraising push

As San Diego survivors of the pandemic head back to the beach this June, their elected representatives in Sacramento rush to hit up political donors for campaign cash, some of it controversial. Take Assembly Democrat ...

June 29, 2021

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June 21, 2021

As New York actress dies, San Diego's e-scooter barons lobby up

The frenzy of electric scooters filling the streets of San Diego has begun to grow anew as the state lifts its last anti-pandemic strictures. Burgeoning too are local lobbyists lining up downtown to grease political ...

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June 14, 2021

San Diego website meltdown preceded by vendor spat, email shows

The intrigue surrounding the City of San Diego's abrupt switch to a new campaign finance disclosure website has deepened with the partial rejection by city officials of a request for public records that might shed ...

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June 1, 2021

Four months later, Bry changes financial disclosure report

Back on February 23, La Jolla serial entrepreneur and Union-Tribune columnist Neil Senturia slammed down the phone on a reporter when asked about his wife's role in Deckard Technologies. According to a September 2019 report ...

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May 21, 2021

San Diego crashes its own campaign disclosure website

The city of San Diego's online campaign disclosure system, at one time a stellar model of electronic reporting, now appears to have lost a key vendor and been down for weeks without any public announcement, ...

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May 18, 2021

Cunningham manse owner kicks in $3000 for latest GOP House accused

Monday's guilty plea by ex-Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg to sex trafficking and a bevy of other felony counts has reportedly ratcheted up the heat on his partner in partying, Republican congressman Matt Gaetz. ...

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May 3, 2021

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 first gratis international journey, courtesy ...

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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 Lee charging that he sustained ...

April 26, 2021

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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, proponents delayed disclosing to the ...

April 19, 2021

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April 12, 2021

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 became Vegas notables, including Dalitz ...

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April 6, 2021

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 ...

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Escondido's hidden gems of influence

Back of KPBS line – A Way With Words, Fresh Air, Lawrence Welk

Father Joe Carroll: death of a transactional cleric

Faulconer political brain zaps Trump, leaves top GOP job

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