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UCSD's New Vice Chancellorship for "Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion" Draws Critical Blast
A UCSD plan to create a new vice chancellor position in charge of campus "equity, diversity, and inclusion” has drawn sharp criticism from Heather Mac Donald, a contributing editor to City Journal, the magazine published four times a year by …
The Governor Signs Kehoe's Strangulation Bill Into Law
On July 27, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that would add jail time for spouses and partners who strangle or chokes their significant others. The bill was sponsored by State Senator Christine Kehoe. Kehoe drafted the bill …
Study Tracks Statewide Energy Attitudes
The Public Policy Institute of California yesterday released the results of a broad poll on the attitudes of Californians concerning various environmental issues. Among the findings: Nuclear power has, unsurprisingly, fallen out of favor in the wake of the Fukushima …
Workforce Index Drops for First Time in Five Months
The San Diego Workforce Index, compiled monthly by the San Diego Workforce Partnership, dropped in June for the first time in five months. The index was hit by the rise in the county unemployment to 10.4% in June from 9.6% …
A New J. David Scandal
Old-timers remember the Ponzi scheme named J. David that dominated San Diego news in the 1980s and into the 1990s. J. David Dominelli, the main manipulator, went to prison for a long stretch and has since died. Now there is …
City Council Looks to Renew Contract for Balboa Park Organist
On August 2, city council members will decide whether to pay organist Dr. Carol Williams $28,600 a year for weekly concerts at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion. The $286,000 dollar ten-year contract came under fire earlier this year during budget deliberations. …
California Last in Jobs Creation
More bad news on the state economy: The Business Journals’ On Numbers is reporting that California ranks dead last in the number of jobs created over the last five years. The state had 14,068,600 non-farm jobs reported as of June …
Navy Reportedly Revokes Silver Star of Imprisoned La Jollan Wade Sanders
Politico, the Boston Globe, and multiple other online sources are reporting today that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has revoked a Silver Star awarded to retired captain, Vietnam swift boat veteran and La Jollan Wade Sanders, who is currently serving a …
Golden Hill CDC Late to Submit Audit for MAD Funds
For the second straight year, the Greater Golden Hill Community Development Corporation has failed to submit Golden Hill maintenance assessment district audits to the City on time. The audit was due last December. Now, eight months later, there is still …
City to Prepare Draft EIR for O.B. Community Plan Update
On July 26, the city gave notice that it will prepare the draft environmental impact report for the Ocean Beach Community Plan Update. O.B. denizens will have a chance to comment on the proposed draft report at scoping meeting on …
Rupert Murdoch's Fox Group Funds Four San Diego Politicos
Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch may have his hands full with Britain's burgeoning News of the World phone hacking scandal, but Beverly Hills-based Fox Group, a subsidiary of Murdoch-run News America, Inc., has kept busy making a total of $75,750 …
County Home Values Rise in May
Housing values across the nation rose in May from April, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, but the gain was largely seasonal, warns David Blitzer of Standard & Poor's. San Diego County home values rose 0.2% in …
Marijuana Ordinance Goes Up In Smoke
Photo at left: Sherri Lightner San Diego city councilmembers repealed an ordinance today that aimed at regulating marijuana dispensaries. Opponents of the ordinance, which prohibited dispensaries from residential, and many commercial areas of the City, and provided a 600-foot-buffer from …
Builders give $10K to Jerry Sanders 401(k) Campaign
The Building Industry Association of San Diego County PAC has made a big contribution to the effort by San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders, councilman Carl DeMaio, and the GOP Lincoln Club, among others, to qualify a ballot measure to replace …
Bridgepoint's Major Shareholder to Sell; Stock Down
Shares of Bridgepoint Education are down 11.61% to $26.96 near the end of the July 25 trading day. The company's largest shareholder, Wall Street's Warburg Pincus, has put its entire stake -- 65% of outstanding shares -- up for sale. …
DUI Checkpoint Nets Eight Vehicle Impounds, Zero DUIs
Deputies at the San Diego Sheriff’s Poway station conducted a sobriety checkpoint from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. A total of 544 vehicles passed through the checkpoint on the 14300 block of Poway Road. Of the cars …
District Three Residents Oppose Redistricting Map
Residents of Kensington and Talmadge are asking the City's Redistricting Commission to rethink how they plan to redraw district boundaries. Most of all, the district three denizens oppose getting placed in the newly formed ninth-district alongside the College Area, Southeastern …