San Diego Symphony on Saturday night — the best concert ever
Yes. I’m going to go with that.
Garrett Harris 10:27 p.m., May 22
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The doctor is late
UCSD travel and entertainment reimbursements not always submitted in a timely manner
Travel and entertainment spending by the department of surgery at UCSD billed to so-called Express Cards handed out to employees for official spending has caught the attention of California state auditors, resulting in the implementation ...
Bold-faced retirement
Bill Bold succeeded by Nate Tibbits
La Jolla public affairs honcho Bill Bold, long the chief strategist of Qualcomm’s efforts to increase the number of so-called H-1B visas to allow more foreign nationals into the country to perform engineering work for ...
Voice of eliminations
Seeking a new six-figure executive
As San Diego’s layoff-shrunken corps of reporters continues missing in action on big political stories of late, a local nonprofit, donor-backed news-and-opinion website has gone up on LinkedIn, seeking a new six-figure executive in charge ...
Not so forest-friendly
Toni Atkins and multitudinous dollars of special interests
State senator Toni Atkins had plenty of food, drink, and travel in 2016, thanks to the multitudinous dollars of special interests. Her personal financial report filed for last year shows she received greater than $100,000 ...
Zapf zaps term limit
Redistricting may mean a third time on city council
Republican San Diego city councilwoman Lorie Zapf was first elected in 2010 to represent District 6. She was reelected in June 2014 from District 2 after her house ended up there as a result of ...
Ex-con’s party
Nathan Fletcher keeps ramping up
Ex-Republican assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, who turned independent and then Democrat while placing third in two bids to become San Diego’s mayor, continues to ramp up an apparent try for the county supervisor’s seat being vacated ...
Summer’s Roe boat
Conflict-of-interest questions arise
With what some are referring to as the pending anointment of Summer Stephan as successor to Republican district attorney Bonnie Dumanis comes conflict-of-interest questions involving at least one member of the county board of supervisors. ...
Swimming in Copley cash
Slurped up by managers of his foundation
The salary of Dean Dwyer, chief executive of the David C. Copley Foundation, has been holding steady, from $228,960, plus benefits of $29,629 in 2014, to $230,000 in pay and $29,677 in benefits as of ...
No comments, please, we’re SDSU
Opinionated viewers are invited to use Twitter and Facebook
San Diego State University’s KPBS broadcasting operation is suddenly slamming the door on website comments, some of which have questioned the political direction of the station whose newsroom is named after billionaire Democrat contributor Irwin ...
The push for a U-T advisory board that isn’t one-sided
Guided by values
Back in July 2011, after Beverly Hills vulture capitalist Tom Gores bought the Union-Tribune from an ailing David Copley, ending decades of local ownership, the paper’s new editor Jeff Light announced he had come up ...
Mother’s milk
Former San Diego city manager Jack McGrory gets honorary degree
Former San Diego city manager Jack McGrory, controversial for his role in the costly downtown Padres stadium project on behalf of mega-millionaire John Moores and later a big-time real estate developer in his own right, ...
