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USS San Diego among many eyeballed for lax fire safety

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Even Fox feeds Toni Atkins cash machine

Toni and Rupert’s political romance Controversial right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson is out of a job, and Fox News is poorer by $787.5 million, thanks to its settlement with Dominion Voting ...

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Sara Jacobs learns about hunger at 5-star hotels in Kenya and Somalia

Sara’s care package It was off to Kenya for a week starting April 8 for House Democrat Sara Jacobs, who hasn’t been wasting any time catching up with her predecessor ...

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La Mesa's Colin Parent and Chula Vista's John McCann exploit behest law

Pot and trash talking La Mesa Vice Mayor Colin Parent, CEO of self-styled pro-transit nonprofit Circulate San Diego, has of late been under the microscope for soliciting $700,000 over the ...

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USS San Diego among many eyeballed for lax fire safety

Fire in the hold A report to Congress by the United States Government Accountability Office in the wake of the July 2020 fire that devastated the USS Bonhomme Richard has ...

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Preuss School students tell whole story about riding the trolley

Preuss’s trolley travails UCSD’s PR honchos are well-known for frequently touting the university’s charter prep school. “The Preuss School is located on the UC San Diego campus and is led by an alumna of the ...

May 3, 2023

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All the Dylan Mulvaney San Diego connections

Cookies and beer Controversial Budweiser-pitching transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney is deeply rooted in San Diego’s Republican old-boy network, reports Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post. “Her grandfather, James Mulvaney Sr., who died at age 87 ...

April 26, 2023

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April 19, 2023

San Diego fat cats want UCSD's Pradeep Khosla to stay – why?

Pradeep’s rise A shadowy network of unidentified fat cats has come up with $13 million to fund the $500,000-a-year raise awarded to UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla by the University of California’s regents on ...

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April 12, 2023

Where will the Nathan Fletcher money go?

Sempra’s choice Now that Democrat Nathan Fletcher is resigning as a San Diego County supervisor due to the region’s latest elected official sex scandal, what will become of the million dollars or so amassed from ...

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April 5, 2023

Key Todd Gloria backer Gil Cabrera gets hand slapped

Getting Gil’s goat A political committee run by the chair of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority Gil Cabrera, which emailed a hit piece attacking ex-Assembly Democrat Lori Saldana last year during her bid ...

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March 29, 2023

Sara Jacobs aide reaches out to conservative World Vision

Saving Sara House Democrat Sara Jacobs, facing a possibly tough reelection challenge from conservative Republican Mayor Bill Wells of El Cajon, has dispatched one of her assistants to a conference at United Nations Headquarters in ...

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March 22, 2023

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 the San Diego Sports Arena, ...

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March 15, 2023

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, 2019. The resultant political pushback, ...

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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 mayor of that city in ...

March 8, 2023

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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 City of San Diego for ...

March 1, 2023

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February 22, 2023

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, ...

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February 15, 2023

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 ...

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Even Fox feeds Toni Atkins cash machine

Sara Jacobs learns about hunger at 5-star hotels in Kenya and Somalia

La Mesa's Colin Parent and Chula Vista's John McCann exploit behest law

USS San Diego among many eyeballed for lax fire safety

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