County Supervisors Discuss Limiting Role of Community Planning Groups
County Supervisors received recommendations to streamline the land-use permitting process from the Red Tape Reduction Task Force on Wednesday. The task force spent months drafting the recommendations after interviews with county employees, and poring over county documents. Among the recommendations, …
SDG&E Defends Solar Rate Hike At County Hearing
Representatives from SDG&E appeared at a county hearing on Tuesday to defend a proposal to increase solar rates for 15,000 customers. The energy company claims solar customers are not paying for the energy infrastructure, leaving non-solar customers to foot the …
Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against UCSD Medical Center
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against UCSD Medical Center for discrimination against employees who are non-U.S. citizens. The lawsuit alleges that the medical center discriminated against the foreign eomployees by requiring them to verify, and sometimes re-verify, their …
Battle Over Tall Buildings Continues In Uptown
Residents of Uptown are preparing up for an all too familiar fight. On Thursday, a group of Uptown denizens will lobby San Diego's planning commissioners to recommend yet another extension of the Interim Height Ordinance in Uptown. The ordinance, which …
Lemon Grove Considers Logging on to Social Media Sites
Officials in Lemon Grove feel the days of residents visiting the City website to look for upcoming events are over. During a hearing in October, city councilmembers and the mayor directed staff to draft a policy to use social media …
Conservative Group New Majority Endorses Fletcher
Since announcing his candidacy for mayor, Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, a Republican, has received praise from all sorts of unlikely sources. Alt-weekly San Diego CityBeat praised Fletcher for his pragmatism, despite giving "boos" for his support of managed competition, and Comprehensive …
Sheriff to Purchase and Install Surveillance Cameras Along Coast
The Sheriff's Department is in the market for some good surveillance camera equipment. On Tuesday, County Supervisors will consider allowing the Sheriff's Department to accept $600,000 in federal grant money to purchase and install cameras and a microwave transmitter along …
Agents Provide Details of Elaborate Drug Tunnel in Otay Mesa
Agents from the DEA and Border Patrol released more details about the cross-border drug tunnel discovered on Tuesday. Initial reports had described the tunnel as elaborate, new details revealed today show just how elaborate it was. Electric rail cars ran …
Public Invited To Weigh In On Natural-Gas Power Plant Near Sycamore Landfill
On Friday, the California Energy Commission will hold a public workshop on a proposed natural-gas-fired power plant to be built south of the Sycamore Landfill. Quali Brush Genco, a subsidiary of Cogentrix Energy, proposes building the 100-megawatt peaker power plant, …
More and More Californians Leaving the State
The mass exodus from California continues. A recent census report found that hundreds of thousands of Californians migrated from the state in 2010. Of the ten largest state-to-state-migration-flows, the move from California to Texas topped the list with nearly 69,000 …
Increase in Poverty in San Diego County
The number of people living below the poverty line in San Diego County increased in 2010, according to a new report released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Along with the increase, came a decrease in median household income from $60,103 …
Survey Finds San Diego Budget Hotels Are A Little Too Budget
Budget hotels in San Diego rank among the worst in the country, according to a survey by cheaphotels.org. The survey asked guests at budget hotels in 25 major U.S. cities to rate their accommodations, in terms of "overall quality" as …
Lawsuit Filed to Overturn SANDAG's 2050 Transportation Plan
The Cleveland National Forest Foundation and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit on November 28 to block implementation of SANDAG's 2050 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy. SANDAG's board of directors approved the $214 billion transit-plan on October 28 …
San Diego Sees An Increase In The Cost of Luxury Homes
Values of luxury homes are up in San Diego, according to private bank and management firm, First Republic Prestige Home Index. The median price for luxury home in San Diego is now $1.63 million, a 1.1 percent increase compared to …
Does Doug Manchester's Spousal Split-Up Provide Clues to Intentions for the Union-Tribune?
Doug Manchester has been in the news as of late, and considering he just purchased the city's sole daily newspaper, chances are he will be in the news for some time. "Papa Doug" is said to have purchased the Union-Tribune …
Event Will Provide Thanksgiving Dinner For 600 Low-Income Students and Their Families
In March of this year, a study conducted by the Food Research and Action Center concluded that nearly one-in-five people in San Diego struggle to put food on the table. According to San Diego Unified's Office of Children and Youth …
Woman's Arm and Toes Amputated While Trying to Catch a Ride on a Freight Train
A 27-year-old woman lost her right arm as well as some toes after she was struck by a tanker car while trying to hop a freight train near downtown after a night of drinking. The incident occurred early Tuesday morning …
Illegal Spice Trade Aboard the USS Ronald Reagan
The Navy continues to crackdown on synthetic drugs on board its carriers and war vessels. Today, naval officials announced that 28 crew members on the USS Ronald Reagan were using or in possession of Spice. It was the sixth investigation …
Man Sentenced To 5 Years For Killing Girlfriend's Dogs
Patrick Caleb Land was sentenced to five years and four months in state prison today for beating his girlfriend's three dogs to death over a span of two months in 2010. Investigators at County Animal Services department found DNA evidence …
Public Invited To Weigh In On Proposed La Jolla Crossroads Expansion
On December 6, University City residents will be given a chance to speak their mind about a proposal from Garden Communities to expand the La Jolla Crossroads development by 472 additional residential units. The applicant is asking to change the …