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County Home Values Lag Other Metro Areas
San Diego County home values did slightly worse than the composite of 20 major metro areas in May, according to Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price data released this morning (July 31). San Diego values rose 0.9% from April, lagging the …
Senate Committee Lashes Bridgepoint Education
The U.S. Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions issued a report today (July 30) on the massive failures of for-profit universities, and San Diego's Bridgepoint Education comes out on the short end once again. (The committee had a …
Financially Ailing UCAN to Hire Auditor
This evening (July 30), the board of watchdog Utility Consumers' Action Network (UCAN) agreed to hire an accountant to prepare the books for the period July 1, 2011 through June 30 of this year. Kim Malcolm, the executive director hired …
City Issues Partial Refunds To Residents in Greater Golden Hill
Residents in Golden Hill and South Park are finally receiving refund checks for assessments they paid to what was ruled an illegal maintenance assessment district. There is one problem; the checks do not include the first year's (2007-2008) assessments. The …
Weiner Dogs and Tortoise and a Barbeque
On the way to the Turtle and Tortoise Show, we ran across the weiner dog picnic. It was a sunny, mild day in Balboa Park, just right for the San Diego Dachshund Club’s annual summer picnic. Barky little dogs and …
Audit of County's Emergency Services Office Turns up Multimillion-Dollar Accounting Flaws
On the heels of that $54 million "hidden assets" trust fund scandal enveloping the California state parks system comes word that San Diego county's Office of Emergency Services has been inadequately tracking its own multi-million-dollar finances. According to a report …
DeMaio Hires Former Democratic Chair As Campaign Consultant
If nothing else, this election's mayoral race has been interesting to watch. First Nathan Fletcher jumps ship on the GOP and now Carl DeMaio announces that the former chair for the County's Democratic Party has joined his campaign team. Today, …
City Attorney Warns City Against Formation of Assessment Districts
It wasn't easy, definitely no walk in the park, but after years of fighting the legality of their neighborhood assessment district, residents of Golden Hill finally seem to have convinced the City to reevaluate their approach to property and business …
Council To Vote To Expand Downtown Property-Based Improvement District
It's no mystery that executives at Downtown San Diego Partnership have wanted to extend the reach of the property-based improvement district, also known as the Clean and Safe Program, for quite some time. In the past year alone, the higher-ups …
Famed Physicist Hawking to Visit San Diego
Illustrious British physicist Stephen Hawking will visit San Diego Aug. 4 for the funeral of his close friend Dennis Avery, who recently died. Hawking, who is known for his theory that black holes in space should emit radiation, suffers from …
Tourism Picks Up
Data from Smith Travel Research show that San Diego's hotel business continues to do better. The occupancy rate for June of this year was 70.3%, up from 67.3% in June of 2011. The average daily room rate was $128 this …
Nathan Fletcher To Hold Fundraiser For Victims Of Aurora Shootings
If anyone expected Nathan Fletcher to a fade away after an unsuccessful bid for mayor, they were wrong. Earlier this week, Fletcher's decision to quit the GOP and turn independent was mentioned in yet another article in the New York …
Irwin Jacobs Praises Consultant For Their Work On Plaza de Panama Project
Nearly three weeks after city councilmembers, sans Sherri Lightner, gave the $45 million Plaza de Panama project the green light, Irwin Jacobs and the construction management firm he hired to be in charge of public outreach and planning are patting …
San Diego Supervisors Seeking Private Consultant to Change County's Land Permit "Culture"
Do San Diego county's land-use planners have sufficient culture to deal with big developrs and angry neighbors? Apparently not, judging from a "request for information" posted online July 12 by the county's department of purchasing and contracting. According to the …