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Pechanga Arena face profiling – doing police work for them

Police profiling Just as San Diego cops have begun a public relations push to install video spy cams on more city streetlights, word comes that the building formerly known as ...

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San Diego cops selling hidden cameras

Spy cams for free? San Diego cops installed a sweeping network of streetlight video spy cams with little public awareness until we initially broke the story here on February 20, ...

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Chula Vista Mayor McCann must abstain on homeless votes

Voteless in Chula Vista Following his November 2022 victory over Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, Republican real estate investor, manager, and longtime Chula Vista city council veteran John McCann took over as ...

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KUSI joins Bill Walton in attacking San Diego homeless dilemma

Media shipwreck Can Downtown’s homeless woes be linked to softball lighting in Clairemont? So argues the non-profit Lucky Duck Foundation, which has bestowed its latest “Shipwreck” anti-homelessness award on the ...

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San Diego County fleet of vehicles suffers disarray

Undercover car tags missing The County of San Diego’s management of its fleet of government vehicles by the Department of General Services has been in dangerous disarray, per a recently posted audit dated September 29, ...

February 22, 2023

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Turo car sharing, under fire elsewhere, greases Toni Atkins machine

Rent-a-pol Turo, Inc., a controversial peer-to-peer car-sharing company based in San Francisco, gave $7500 on January 31 to the ballot measure committee run by termed-out state Senator Toni Atkins, who is seeking to become the ...

February 15, 2023

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February 8, 2023

SDSU inewsource draws contrast with U-T, pulls in $500K

Old San Diego redux Competition for donor contributions between San Diego non-profit reporting outlets could be set to reach unprecedented levels, judging from a gauntlet-throwing January 31 pitch for money by the website of San ...

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February 1, 2023

La Jolla RU-486 mogul exposed by Mother Jones

The messy business of abortion A La Jolla biotech mogul who bankrolled RU-486, the lucrative day-after abortion drug, looms large in a new expose by Mother Jones. According to the piece, “In 1986, a North ...

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January 25, 2023

Will Biden lease Miramar land for homeless tent city?

Sunbreak’s second chance It didn’t take long for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and the New York Post to pick up on a homeless opinion piece co-authored by ex-basketball pro Bill Walton, adding to growing suspicions ...

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January 18, 2023

Holes in San Diego Mayor Gloria's armor

Throwing Goldstones As city hall’s controversies continue to burgeon, Democratic mayor Todd Gloria has gotten his reelection paperwork in early, in the form of a January 4 candidate intention statement filed with the city clerk’s ...

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January 11, 2023

Will Johnny Ek and Scott Mendel clear clouds at Specific Diagnostics?

Rainmaker’s run-in Fresh from a $1.8 billion March 2021 buyout by Roche of his previous employer, San Diego-based GenMark Diagnostics, the company’s chief financial officer Johnny Ek signed on in with Specific Diagnostics of Mountain ...

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January 4, 2023

The many advantages of being Nathan Fletcher

Lorena’s loot Given that traditional local news outlets suffer financial duress and the Union-Tribune is expected to go exclusively online most days of the week, the word that ex-Assembly Democrat Lorena Gonzalez has set up ...

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Otonomy, La Jolla ear cure stock, falls to 11 cents

La Jolla ear boxing A torrent of hype from high-flying La Jolla biotech investment outfits like Avalon Ventures continues apace, despite a growing stream of bad news for public investors. A sad case in point: ...

December 28, 2022

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Will Gloria hire sketchy Sloat as homeless lobbyist?

Wanted: homeless lobbyist As homeless people swamp the streets of San Diego, the city’s Housing Commission is preparing to spend big money for a Sacramento lobbyist, presumably to chase a windfall of homeless-related state taxpayer ...

December 21, 2022

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December 14, 2022

Hidden video cameras pervade Mexican border

Spy cams among us San Diego, a city that for years seemed unaware of the spy cams in its midst, is again being reminded of its ever-present network of surveillance devices. The first exposure came ...

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December 7, 2022

VA details increase in vets shooting selves

VA’s shooting suicides San Diego’s Veterans Administration Health Care system has fallen short in its efforts to deal with the growing number of loaded guns in the hands of suicidal patients, according to a newly ...

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Pechanga Arena face profiling – doing police work for them

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KUSI joins Bill Walton in attacking San Diego homeless dilemma

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