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Shames Forms Own Group; Malcolm of UCAN Questions His Statements
Michael Shames, cofounder and former head of watchdog Utility Consumers' Action Network (UCAN), today (June 26) made a filing with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) claiming that he is taking over UCAN's role in San Diego Gas & Electric's …
Command Master Chief of Guided Missile Destroyer Gridley Fired After DUI Arrest, Navy Times Reports
Navy Times is reporting that the command master chief of the San Diego-based guided missile destroyer Gridley was fired earlier this month after being arrested for drunk driving in Millington, Tennessee. According to the account, William R. Adams was relieved …
Agency With Ties To Blackwater Running Training Facility In Otay Mesa After Another Name Change
Last week, Gail Collins, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times, wrote a story about privatization. In the article, Collins describes privatization efforts that haven't gone so well. Some examples she listed were privatizing prisons, educational facilities, and training …
Wealthy Donors Behind La Jolla Super PAC's "Independent" Campaign for Fletcher
Who paid for all those icpurple.org television spots featuring a gang of children mixing red and blue paint on behalf of ex-GOP Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher's self-professed independent bid to become mayor of San Diego? As we first reported on May …
Former KUSI Anchor To Serve As Bob Filner's Communications Director
Lena Lewis, former anchor and reporter for KUSI news, is returning to San Diego to become Bob Filner's new communications director. Lewis announced her new gig working for Filner on Twitter yesterday. "My new boss! Working for Bob Filner in …
U.S., San Diego Home Values Up in April
San Diego County home values rose 1.4% in April, according to Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller data just released (June 26), a bit better than the composite 1.3% gain of the 20 largest metropolitan areas. Home values in 19 of 20 metro …
Has the Lincoln Club Lost Sway in the South Bay?
Though the San Diego County Registrar of Voters has until July 3 to certify election results, the votes are counted and some results merit more analysis. Why did the campaign efforts of the influential, pro-business Lincoln Club fare so poorly …
Mt. Soledad Cross Case Not Supreme Court's Cross To Bear
The Supreme Court announced today that justices are staying out of the legal dispute over the Mt. Soledad Cross in La Jolla, refusing to hear an appeal of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court ruling which deemed the cross a public …
Disbarred Attorney Promises to Behave
A former Carlsbad attorney has been disbarred in California, one week after a judge in a downtown San Diego courtroom found him “competent” and then accepted his guilty plea in a pending case. Michael Theodore Pines, now 60 years old, …
State May Launch San Onofre Probe
“Nuclear safety in action,” is how San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station operator Southern California Edison spokesperson Jennifer Manfre describes the ongoing emergency shutdown at the facility in the North County Times. After four months, experts have determined that a faulty …
Mitt Romney's La Jolla Neighborhood News Warns Neighbors About Talking to Reporters
There is the New York Times, published since 1891, the nation's influential bastion of liberalism, winner of 108 Pulitzer prizes. Its motto: "All the News That's Fit to Print." And there is the Barber Tract Times, published by La Jolla's …
Stock of NC Times Parent Zooms
Stock of Lee Enterprises, owner of the North County Times, has zoomed the last two days, probably because of rumors that Omaha billionaire/wizard Warren Buffett may be interested in it. Buffett likes small-town papers and has bought some recently. Lee …
Imperial Beach City Council Forced to Address Pot Dispensary Ban
Proponents of prescription pot will once again converge on City Hall in Imperial Beach to ask the city council to end the current moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries and enact a new ordinance which allows dispensary owners to open shop …
California Fugitive Arrested in New Mexico
Pictured: Booking photo of Elizabeth Sheldon-Masters, 44, from New Mexico. Authorities in New Mexico have taken into custody a woman fugitive from California who is wanted for allegedly embezzling $5.74 million from a San Marcos business. Elizabeth Sheldon-Masters, 44, was …