Manchester's Texas overrun balloons, lawsuit ensues
Austin project was "stepchild" to Chargers stadium, complaint says
Matt Potter 3:39 p.m., Dec. 18
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Those Zapf entrepreneurs
Last free meals for Myrtle Cole
Chip off the old politico San Diego city councilwoman Lorie Zapf lost her Second District seat to Jen Campbell after a bitter battle of independent expenditure committees, but Zapf’s daughter Tana kept her job with ...
Money squeezed from Get It Done, San Diego
Qualcomm hires opposition research team
Rough operators Qualcomm, the home-grown tech giant known locally for take-no-prisoners political plays, is quickly getting a national reputation for dirty tricks. A November 21 report by the New York Times outlines Qualcomm’s hiring of ...
Uber joins Sempra in sugar daddy game
Barona treats Dems and Reps to free meals
Party before the storm Utility giant Sempra Energy and its subsidiary San Diego Gas & Electric, enmeshed in a bevy of California controversies — including an ongoing effort to resist so-called Community Choice Aggregation in ...
Scooter lobbyists behind scenes
Peters' help in ousting Zapf
e-scooter pay-off The Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University is out with a study likely to gladden the hearts of San Diego e-scooter riders, plagued by a rash of accidents and beset by ...
Zapf falls to Campbell
Anti-Trump off-shore drilling wasn’t enough to get Republican re-elected
Anti-Trump trumped A flurry of last-minute advertising on Facebook attacking president Donald Trump wasn’t enough to get Republican Lorie Zapf re-elected last week against anti-Trump Democrat Jen Campbell. “Lorie Zapf will stand up to Trump’s ...
Israel treats La Mesa bureaucrat
L.A. Times resumes voter guide
La Mesa’s foreign freebies Taking off on an all-expense paid junket to the Middle East, courtesy of a non-profit fund closely tied to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which styles itself as “America’s pro-Israel ...
Former Union-Tribune cartoonist Steve Kelley goes to Pittsburgh
Paul McCartney venue in Rancho Santa Fe for sale
Kelley’s next stand Former Union-Tribune political cartoonist Steve Kelley, who departed the paper in the aftermath of a 2001 dispute over “butt cracks” he allegedly snuck into print, is back behind the inkwell, this time ...
John Cox or Venezuela
Alpine Chamber gets $75K for Snow Festival, Christmas Parade, and honey event
Bombs away San Diego’s bigger-than-life public art world is in turmoil. A proposed million-dollar pair of oversized plastic straws designed in Los Angeles to grace the entrance of San Diego’s new toilet-to-tap water plant has ...
L.A.Times gets Big Willie and Room 20
U-T gets “Who gets to keep the dog in a divorce?”
Jerry’s female side The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee led by Republican ex-mayor and former police chief Jerry Sanders has come up with a creative name for its latest political venture: ...
Atkins garners horse money, DeMaio frets about gas tax repeal title
Fletcher and spouse do Chinese fire drill with committees
Tax dollars at play Now that termed-out San Diego county supervisor Greg Cox has become president of the National Association of Counties, insiders are on the lookout for a flood of staff junketing. The first ...
Drones gone wild, Manchester late again, state pols like to spend in San Diego
Leaky drones U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which surveils San Diego from the skies with costly state-of-the-art drones, is not being mindful enough of the privacy and security of the citizenry below. So concludes a ...
