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Joe Holley gets Pulitzer after leaving San Diego

Editorial sex talk A Pulitzer Prize to the Union-Tribune recognizing the newspaper’s long string of exposes regarding ex-Sheriff Bill Gore’s jail deaths debacle wasn’t to be. But a controversial former ...

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Toni Atkins vacuums up $50K from apartment owners

Landlords’ April 26 giving spree As post-pandemic controversy over eviction law still swirls in Sacramento, a political fund benefiting San Diego Democrat Toni Atkins, the state Senate’s Pro Tem, received ...

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How Border Patrol tracks migrant deaths

Border mortalities stable but rescues up Droves of undocumented immigrants may be dying as they try to make their way north in the deserts and mountains east of San Diego. ...

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December Nights to be run by San Francisco impressario?

Gay pride, marathon experience better for Balboa Park? After getting by as a car-confined, drive-by-only event for the past two years, Balboa Park’s traditional December Nights celebration is anticipating a ...

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Juan Vargas challenged for his seat at corporate pig trough

Juan’s easy path to power After years of coasting through easy re-election battles, House Democrat Juan Vargas — running in California’s newly redrawn 52nd District and facing a challenger from his party’s left — is ...

April 20, 2022

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Ben & Jerry's co-founder helps Dave Myers in sheriff race

Anti-cop ice cream What’s for dessert? San Diego politics, judging by a March 30 $1800 contribution by ice cream kingpin Ben Cohen of Williston, Vermont, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s. The out-of-town cash went to ...

April 13, 2022

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April 6, 2022

Will San Diego cancel SeaWorld lease?

Vegas lawyer and a super gift giver SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment, currently welshing on paying $10 million in back rent to the city, last year came up with a free ticket worth $80 for Ninth ...

La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa News Under the Radar

March 30, 2022

Georgette Gomez pulling in gay and labor money

Dem-on-Dem race gets expensive Serious special interest money continues to pour into the Democrat-on-Democrat 80th District special election race to replace resigned Assembly Democrat Lorena Gonzalez on April 5. Georgette Gomez, an ex-member of the ...

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March 23, 2022

DaVita HealthCare drops $62K on Toni Atkins

Toni’s kidney cash With another bitter initiative battle over the regulation of kidney dialysis coming up soon, the so-called ballot measure committee of state Senate Democratic honcho Toni Atkins picked up a hefty $62,000 from ...

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March 16, 2022

UCSD Triton Pavilion – $16 million for planning after first $15 million failed

Pradeep’s new palace Will UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla have better luck the second time around building his botched behemoth Triton Pavilion, a pricey new office and alumni complex with posh space for university executives that ...

Mission Valley News Under the Radar

March 9, 2022

David Alvarez gets corporate money but not from trial lawyers

Special election shuffle Fundraising in the April 5 special election battle to replace Democrat Lorena Gonzalez, who earlier this year quit her seat in the state Assembly, is underway, with ex-city councilman and mayoral candidate ...

Carmel Mountain La Jolla News Under the Radar

March 2, 2022

Why does SDG&E shower money on local candidates?

Sempra’s Peace piece When the city council voted 6-3 to approve a new decade-long power-providing franchise agreement with San Diego Gas & Electric back in June, Mayor Todd Gloria promised to study the idea of ...

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Texas gets parts of Trump's border wall from San Diego for free

Biden’s free bollards and chains The state of Texas, reportedly gaining population at the expense of California, has received another gift by way of the Golden State: a February 15 Texas Tribune dispatch reports that ...

February 23, 2022

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U.S. Navy ship crews working 10-20 hours some days

Suicide by Navy Crew shortages, limited training, and exhaustion at the nation’s Naval bases — including San Diego’s — are responsible for both a service-wide maintenance meltdown and a mental health crisis, and at least ...

February 16, 2022

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February 9, 2022

Todd Gloria pouring money at San Diego's homeless

Todd’s costly homeless binge Citizens wanting to know how San Diego mayor Todd Gloria will handle the homeless may find some of the answers in the pages of a potentially costly request for proposals put ...

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February 2, 2022

UCSD not watching drugs used in human experiments

UCSD’s uncontrolled substances An audit completed last fall but just recently released to the public following a request to the university under the California Public Records Act calls out UCSD Health for being out of ...

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Joe Holley gets Pulitzer after leaving San Diego

Toni Atkins vacuums up $50K from apartment owners

How Border Patrol tracks migrant deaths

December Nights to be run by San Francisco impressario?

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