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Big Tobacco Spends Big On Ads Against Tobacco Tax
If you haven't yet seen a commercial featuring a doctor dressed in doctor's garb urging you to vote 'no' on Prop 29, a $1.00 tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products, then you will. If you watch any amount of …
Romney's New Media Aide Had Rocky Road in San Diego
Ric Grenell, newly announced media aide to presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, has apparently already violated one of the cardinal rules of political flackery: don't attract attention to yourself. According to the Huffington Post's Michael Calderone, the former Bush …
Group Uses Faulty Numbers to Tie Immigration to Global Warming
Californians for Population Stabilization, a group that says it “works to formulate and advance policies and programs designed to stabilize the population of California, the U.S. and the world,” launched a nationwide advertising campaign ahead of Earth Day last week …
Amylin Seeking Buyer
Biotech Amylin Pharmaceuticals is seeking a buyer, news services are reporting. In February, the company quietly rejected a $22 a share bid from Bristol-Myers Squibb. Corporate raider Carl Icahn, Amylin's third largest shareholder, sued the company, claiming that a corporate …
A Better San Diego Forum Attacks Props A, B
A Better San Diego held the latest installment in its monthly series of community forums Friday morning. The organization, backed largely by labor groups, invited Tom Lemmon, business manager of the San Diego County Building and Construction Trades council, and …
Electrical Fire at San Onofre
A fire broke out at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Stations’ Unit 2 reactor this afternoon, the North County Times is reporting. The fire, which started at an electrical panel in an area where non-radioactive steam spins turbines that generate electricity, …
Politicians, Community Leaders Speak Out Against Walmart in Sherman Heights
A crowd of Sherman Heights residents gathered this morning in front of the historic Farmers Market building on Imperial Avenue to hear a host of activists and local politicians speak on action recently taken by site lessee Walmart to demolish …
Rubio's Warns Shareholders Their Social Security Numbers Were Stolen
Rubio's, the well-known Mexican fast food chain based in Carlsbad, says that a computer disk containing personal information on individuals, including the social security numbers of some company shareholders, has gone missing. "On February 5, 2012, a CD-ROM containing a …
County Unemployment Rises in March
The San Diego County unemployment rate rose to 9.5% in March -- up from 9.4% in February but down from 10.1% a year earlier -- according to the California Employment Development Department. The leisure and hospitality industry gained 2800 jobs …
City to Implement "Pay First, Litigate Later" on Disputed Tax Assessments?
City Attorney Jan Goldsmith wants to "place the City in a more defensible posture" against those looking for refunds on tax assessments. Goldsmith plans to do so by adding a new section [Section 22.1708] to the City's code which sets …
SDGE Smart Meter Opt-Out Plan Approved
The California Public Utilities Commission today (April 19) approved a plan permitting San Diego Gas & Electric customers to opt out of their wireless smart meters -- at a stiff price. Utilities began installing the meters -- essentially obsoleting the …
Lawyer, Mother Convicted in Mortgage Scam
Orange County attorney Stephen K. Chrysler, owner and chief executive of Carlsbad's SKC Real Estate, and his mother, Carlsbad real estate agent Aida Agusti Castro, were convicted by a jury today (April 18) of running an $8 million mortgage scam …
Nathan Fletcher To Run 950 Ads on Cox and Time Warner Cable
With a little over a month until the primary election, two of the four mayoral candidates are beginning to reveal strategies behind their ad campaigns. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis plans to spend $94,756 to run ads for the month beginning …
Bonnie Dumanis Wages War for Women's Vote
As national media outlets continue to report on the "war on women", one San Diego candidate for mayor has waged a war of her own in this coming primary election; a war for women's votes. According to political ad buys …
Qualcomm Earnings Jump; Stock Plunges on Guidance
Qualcomm stock has plunged 4.49% to $62.64 in after-hours trading today (April 18) after the company reported strong quarterly sales and earnings, but speculators weren't happy with guidance for the current quarter. For its second quarter, the wireless chip maker …