News Under the Radar
KPBS donor sick-out It’s been a bad year for the KPBS broadcasting stations, the public television and FM radio operation run by San Diego State University, per a newly released financial statement and report for ...
Sherman’s “paid volunteer” With last week’s change of staff at San Diego’s city hall has come a torrent of leaving-office filings, shedding light on the politics and finances of a bevy of departing aides. Cheryl ...
Highs and low of health tourism Hard hit by the covid-19 pandemic, the Union-Tribune is reaching out to Tijuana’s medical tourist trade for new advertising revenue in a deal with the website San Diego Red. ...
Biden’s bundlers San Diego has four names on the Joe Biden presidential campaign’s list of big-money bundlers, those who gathered a total of $100,000 or more in cash contributions from friends and associates and now ...
Steve Peace’s Maui Wowie The seemingly endless covid lockdown may be the order of the day for civilians, but a horde of California politicos was on the road to Maui last week, thanks to the ...
Growing heights of influence Southwest Strategies, the connected San Diego lobbying shop that frequently showers political money on candidates of all stripes, was paid $17,000 for its influence-peddling on behalf of ASM Global, per a ...
Rady’s budget wreck Taxpayer-financed revelry among UCSD employees is way down in the wake of covid-19 restrictions, but university auditors have been discovering a host of irregularities regarding travel, food, and entertainment binges of previous ...
Faulconer’s pre-election cash As the clock ticks down on Kevin Faulconer’s last weeks in office, the San Diego mayor has adopted Fresno as his favorite new fundraising grounds. A putative candidate for governor on the ...
Doped-up donor An ex-San Diego Chargers defensive tackle with a history of doping has given $1000 to San Diego city councilwoman Barbara Bry’s mayoral campaign. Corey Liuget, a 2011 first-round Chargers pick, is currently on ...
Sexual grappling After Peter Selis, brother of wealthy apartment complex heiress Andrea Lee Posnock, went on an April 2017 killing spree at the Posnock-owned La Jolla Crossroads units where he lived, the super-rich housing family ...
Self-causa San Diego ex-city councilman David Alvarez, whose once-vaunted political career went into a tailspin after his 2013 mayoral loss to Kevin Faulconer, has been pulling in a little cash from National City. Following his ...
Suicidal hilarity A $1.3 million, state-funded, online suicide prevention program commissioned by the San Diego County Office of Education and promoted by the Union-Tribune is too expensive for most California school districts, says an audit ...
Good staff work San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott, battling it out with Cory Briggs to hold onto her job, tapped chief of staff Gerry Braun, the former Union-Tribune reporter, for a $1051 campaign contribution ...
Gonzalez tithes to Dems With election day fast approaching, last-minute special interest money has been flowing into local legislators’ campaign funds and officeholder accounts. On September 14, according to disclosure filings with the California Secretary ...
The Inzunza principle The San Diego mayoral campaign of Assembly Democrat Todd Gloria has picked up cash from a close associate of two former aides to Democratic South Bay congressman Juan Vargas. Casey Haeling, a ...
President Nathan County supervisor Nathan Fletcher continues to leverage the covid-19 crisis to benefit his campaign fundraising for a 2022 reelection bid. “Nathan’s campaign has been building momentum every day this year, we cannot let ...