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San Diego a "Strong City?"
San Diego may be be one of the next cities featured on Strong Cities | Strong State, a website “designed to communicate the importance of local government in California residents’ everyday lives.” Records show that the city sent $100,476 from …
Lemon Grove City Council Calls for Removal of Illegal Signs
Lemon Grove city councilmembers are looking to spruce up the City's commercial corridor. They plan to do so by removing all illegal signage from street poles and street corners. The initiative is one of thirteen priorities that city councilmembers identified …
UCAN Joins Fight Against Utility's Treatment of Customers
Utility Consumers' Action Network, local utility watchdog, has filed a complaint with the California Public Utilities Commission against San Diego Gas & Electric's attempt to pass uninsured costs of the 2007 wildfires and future fires to ratepayers, instead of to …
Irwin Jacobs, Sycuan, and Viejas Backing Brown Tax Hike
Democratic Governor Jerry Brown's bid to convince California voters to raise taxes in the Golden State has found three more financial angels in San Diego county. La Jolla billionaire Irwin Jacobs chipped in $5,000 on February 15, according to a …
USD Student's Police Work Leads to Recovery of Stolen Laptop
Two students at the University of San Diego were recently the victims of electronics theft, the USD Vista reports. Both students reported that their items, a digital camera and a laptop, went missing shortly after encounters with a woman described …
Sheriff's Sobriety Checkpoint Yields No DUIs, Least Revenue, Auditor Says
California's state auditor is out with a report comparing the operation of sobriety checkpoints by law enforcment agencies in five California jurisdictions, including that of San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore. "No federal or state statutes or regulations exist governing …
Mid-City Rapid Bus Project One Stop Closer to Construction
On Friday, members of San Diego Association of Governments' (SANDAG) Transportation Committee received an update on the Mid-City Rapid Bus project, a $44 million dollar project to implement rapid bus service from San Diego State University along El Cajon Boulevard …
Michael T. Pines Files Another Suit
Michael T. Pines, who as a North County lawyer advised clients to retake possession of their foreclosed homes, has filed another suit. (His license has been snatched by the state bar, but he can file his own suit.) This suit …
Two Brokers Disciplined
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority revealed in its February report that it has disciplined two San Diego County brokers. Robert John Clark of Vista was fined $25,000 and suspended 6 months for selling a private placement investment aggregating $350,000 to …
July 4th Parade in Mitt Romney's Barber Tract May Be Cancelled
For decades, the annual Independence Day parade has been a cherished tradition of La Jolla's Barber Tract, the tony oceanfront neighborhood where GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney maintains a beach house getaway. Residents decorate their historic houses in patriotic bunting, …
Expert Prediction: Foreclosures Will Slow In 2012
Real estate investors are making a big splash at foreclosure auctions in California and across the country, the website ForeclosureRadar is reporting. The Golden State had the most third-party auction sales in the nation in January, with bidders purchasing 3,964 …
Monarch School for Homeless Children to Break Ground on New Campus
Officials from San Diego's Monarch School are set to break ground on a new campus tomorrow. The K-12 school, exclusively for children and teens impacted by homelessness, has outgrown the current 10,000 square foot facility on Cedar Street. The new …
Democrats Blast SANDAG Transit Plan
The Environmental Caucus of the California Democratic Party yesterday released a resolution it reached unanimously at last weekend’s state convention condemning the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)’s Regional Transit Plan. The group blasts SANDAG for failing to consider state …
V.A. Inspector General Says Problems at Call Center Risk Veterans’ Lives
The Inspector General of the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department has issued a report highly critical of emergency call handling by the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in San Diego. The report says 20 agents are employed by the healthcare …
Do Sempra Shareholders Need Any Further Massaging?
San Diego Gas & Electric's strategy (with the California Public Utilities Commission's surreptitious concurrence) is a classic case of an American corporation raping its customers to enrich its shareholders. You can see this from information provided by Sempra Energy, SDG&E's …
Homeless Veterans Neglected
A new study by the National University System Institute for Policy Research calculates that on any given night, 1700 to 2000 homeless veterans are on San Diego County streets or in shelters. Between 2009 and 2010, some $54 million was …