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Downtown Residents Want Their Refund
More than 2700 downtown property owners are still waiting for the city to pay them back for overcharging them on property assessments. In 2005, city consultant SCI Engineering recalculated the engineer's report. However, the firm miscalculated, overcharging downtown properties anywhere …
Touring Electrical Union's Solar Facilities
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and National Electrical Contractors Association hosted a tour this morning of their rooftop solar system at the main training center for apprentice electricians in the county. The panels produce 90 kilowatts of energy, with …
Predator's Linden Blue Slams Medical Marijuana
General Atomics vice chairman and Hudson Institute trustee Linden Blue is out with an op-ed piece in the San Francisco Examiner — cowritten with Peter Bensinger, Drug Enforcement Administration administrator during the Ford, Carter and Reagan years — touting a …
Meth Found at Interstate 8 Checkpoint
Border Patrol agents seized approximately $750,000 worth of meth at a checkpoint on Interstate 8 near Pine Valley, in eastern San Diego County. Around 3am on July 21, agents directed a 23-year old male to secondary inspection area after appearing …
Drunk Driving Campaign On Del Mar's Opening Day
Horse race enthusiasts that had a few too many cocktails during opening day for the races had a surprise waiting for them outside the fairground's gates. Sheriff's deputies and police officers from departments in National City, San Diego, Chula Vista, …
Push Back Against Gays in History Books
Opponents are gearing up for a referendum against SB 48, a measure signed by Jerry Brown on July 13th. The law would revise current requirements that mandate inclusion of “Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, and …
Arizona Daily Star Layoffs Cast Long Shadow Over North County Times
The blogosphere is full of rumors of a soon-to-come avalanche of newspaper layoffs and one actual report of real firings today, all of which may offer clues to the future of newspapers in southern California, including San Diego county. L.A. …
Ex-San Diegan Guilty of Real Estate Fraud Again
Former North County real estate swinger Philip Rand Lochmiller was found guilty in federal court in Denver today (July 21) of 31 counts of conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering. In 1985, Lochmiller of Lochmiller Mortgage was sentenced to three years …
UCAN Talking Merger with TURN
San Diego-based Utility Consumers' Action Network (UCAN), a watchdog organization focusing on public utilities, is talking possible merger with San Francisco-based The Utility Reform Network (TURN). Neither Michael Shames, executive director of UCAN, nor Mark Toney, executive director of TURN, …
Minkow Gets Five Years
Former San Diego pastor Barry Minkow was sentenced today (July 21) in Miami to five years in prison for committing securities fraud. While in his teens, Minkow had launched a carpet-cleaning company that turned into a $211 million fraud. He …
Chula Vista Subcommittee To Discuss Synthetic Drugs
Last week, Chula Vista councilmembers Steve Castaneda and Patricia Aguilar want to ban synthetic marijuana strains from Chula Vista. Known as "Spice incense," the synthetic cannabis is often marketed for use as incense but most users smoke it for the …
Appeals Court Reinstates Kelley Suit Against U-T
The 4th Appellate District has reinstated the lawsuit that former Union-Tribune editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley filed against the U-T. The suit was thrown out by Superior Court Judge Jay Bloom in November of 2009. Kelley had been fired by the …
Cable Dump Reveals Vetting of Cambodians for San Diego Military Ops
Wikileaks, continuing to release its trove of purloined U.S. diplomatic cable traffic, has posted an unclassified message dated February 23 of last year to the U.S. State Department from the American embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It discusses the need …
Ramona Woman Escapes Masked Men
Sara Evins is frustrated with what she sees as an attempt to downplay an attempted assault last week in the rural San Diego Country Estates, several miles east of the town of Ramona. Around 10 p.m. on Sunday, July 10, …
Padres to Sell AAA Team If They Can't Find a Home
The Union-Tribune is reporting tonight (July 19) that the Padres will sell their Triple-A minor league team if a home can't be located in Escondido or someplace else in North County. The Escondido deal has been cooking for some time, …
City Council Votes to Move Forward with Plaza de Panama
At left: Irwin Jacobs City council voted 7-to-1 to enter into a MOU (memorandum of understanding) with the Plaza de Panama committee that will begin to explore options of removing vehicles from the plaza. The vote came after hours of …