San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/06/22370/ Opponents of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in northern San Diego County are making noise on multiple fronts. Yesterday, the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility filed comments with the California Public Utilities Commission concerning a proposed ruling by Administrative …
DeMaio Challenges Filner to Pension Debate
Carl DeMaio has challenged Bob Filner to a “Lincoln-Douglas style debate on pension reform,” according to a San Diego Daily Transcript article posted to his website. “I’m challenging (Filner) to a Lincoln-Douglas debate, man-to-man, one-on-one, to compare our reforms in …
Bradley Manning Supporter Sues Government Officials
Bradley Manning Support Network co-founder David House has been cleared by a federal judge to continue with a lawsuit he’s filed against former San Diego schools superintendent and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin, along with Homeland Security Secretary …
Peters Brings Congressional Campaign to Ocean Beach
Scott Peters, fresh off picking up an endorsement from the 60,000-strong Laborers’ International Union of North America’s California chapter, appeared last night before the Ocean Beach Planning Board to give board members and the community updates on the Convention Center …
Local Firm Purchases Rights to Patented Cannabis Ingestion Method
San Diego’s Medical Marijuana Inc. is announcing that it has inked a deal with an unnamed European pharmaceutical company for the purchase and development of a patented cannabinoid drug delivery product. The delivery method, while not specifically described, is intended …
Port Offers Sponsorship to Business Generators
The Port of San Diego is seeking applications for sponsorship in two venues beneficial to the Port via Revenue and Promotion-Generating Sponsorship and Community Sponsorship programs. The former is aimed at entities that will bring promotional and economic benefit to …
TV Ads Debut Targeting San Onofre
A coalition of environmental groups, with financial backing from Friends of the Earth, has launched an ad campaign calling for the continued shutdown at northern San Diego County’s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The ad, which accuses plant operator Southern …
Border Watch Groups Losing Steam
After gathering steam and garnering loads of media attention on the launch of the Minuteman Project, interest from average citizens in forming volunteer patrols to watch the border has waned drastically, the Orange County Register reports. The Southern Poverty Law …
Medi-Pot Proponents to Host Filner Fundraiser
The Patient Care Association of California, a group of marijuana collectives and cooperatives formed in mid-2011 to combat the medical marijuana ordinance passed by the City of San Diego, is promoting a fund raiser in support of Bob Filner’s mayoral …
Log Cabin Republicans Dump Fletcher
Republican hits against Nathan Fletcher’s mayoral campaign continue in the wake of the candidate’s abandoning the GOP. San Diego Log Cabin Republicans, the party’s LGBT-friendly arm, has rescinded its support of Fletcher. Chapter president Victoria Kerley, though, seemed almost apologetic …
Fresh & Easy Busted for Union Busting
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market Inc., the U.S. arm of British grocery giant Tesco, itself the second most-profitable worldwide retailer behind Wal-Mart, has lost in a petition for review of a disciplinary order handed down by the National Labor Relations …
Relationship Education Yields Benefits
Healthy Relationships California has released promising results of a yearlong federally funded program on relationship and marriage education for low-income couples. Compared with a control group, participants in the group’s 6-15 week Supporting Healthy Marriage programs reported higher levels of …