Scripps College, Founded by La Jolla's Ellen Browning Scripps, Hacked by Insider
Ellen Browning Scripps, born in London back in 1836, probably couldn't have imagined the contemporary woes currently besetting Scripps College, an institution for the higher education of women built in 1926 in Claremont with some of the sizable fortune she …
Even Before Del Mar Track Opens, San Diego Politicos Off and Running for Its Campaign Cash
Next Wednesday the Del Mar track opens for the season, and amongst the fillies and big-hatted socialites on display, there will likely be more than a few state and local politicos. It's been that way for years, ever since the …
La Jolla Billionaire Irwin Jacobs Gives $2 million to Pro-Obama Super PAC
Fresh from his high-dollar Balboa Park makeover victory at city council yesterday, La Jolla billionaire and Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs has found himself at the center of a story about mega-million-dollar donations to a new Democratic super PAC called Priorities …
Key Sanders and Horn Political Operative Signs on with Pro-Jacobs Balboa Park Committee
On the eve of today's San Diego city council hearing on Irwin Jacobs' controversial Balboa Park makeover plan, backers of the La Jolla billionaire and Qualcomm founder have made it clear they intend to pursue a take-no-prisoners strategy. The Balboa …
Douglas Manchester's Grand del Mar Resort to Host GOP Super Money Golf Bash
San Diego's posh golf resorts and high-powered political fundraising are clearly made for each other. In March it was the Pro Tem Cup, thrown by Democratic state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg at Torrey Pines. As our Dave Rice …
Columnist Vows to Return Speaking Fee to Controversial Iranian Group Backed by Filner
Earlier this week, syndicated columnist Clarence Page told the online news site ProPublica that he was returning a $20,000 speaking fee, along with travel expense reimbursements he had received for addressing a June 23 rally in Paris on behalf of …
San Diego's "Yes on A" Committee Set to be Fined $2500 for Campaign Disclosure Violations
San Diego's June election campaign has already claimed its first ethics victim, "Yes on Proposition A," the committee that backed the successful measure to ban so-called project labor agreements in the city of San Diego. According to a stipulation between …
Jewish Community Foundation Backs Controversial Balboa Park Makeover with $1.57 Million, IRS Disclosure Shows
A tax-exempt committee set up by La Jolla billionaire Irwin Jacobs to push through his controversial Balboa Park traffic and parking makeover spent almost $2.4 million between June 2010 through the end of May of last year, according to an …
No on Dead Men Walking: Ex-Con Millionaire Staging Celebrity Bash Against Capital Punishment
La Jolla's favorite former superlawyer Bill Lerach, who did a stretch in a Federal penitentiary after pleading guilty in a kickback case, is throwing a star-studded party to raise money for the so-called SAFE California Act, a measure on November's …
Canadian Firm Pulls Power Plant Vote, Vows Future "Public Engagement" Battle
A little more than two years ago, on June 23, 2010, we wrote about a stealthy plan by San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders to locate a power plant on land the city owns just east of I-805 near University Towne …
Command Master Chief of Guided Missile Destroyer Gridley Fired After DUI Arrest, Navy Times Reports
Navy Times is reporting that the command master chief of the San Diego-based guided missile destroyer Gridley was fired earlier this month after being arrested for drunk driving in Millington, Tennessee. According to the account, William R. Adams was relieved …
Wealthy Donors Behind La Jolla Super PAC's "Independent" Campaign for Fletcher
Who paid for all those icpurple.org television spots featuring a gang of children mixing red and blue paint on behalf of ex-GOP Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher's self-professed independent bid to become mayor of San Diego? As we first reported on May …
Mitt Romney's La Jolla Neighborhood News Warns Neighbors About Talking to Reporters
There is the New York Times, published since 1891, the nation's influential bastion of liberalism, winner of 108 Pulitzer prizes. Its motto: "All the News That's Fit to Print." And there is the Barber Tract Times, published by La Jolla's …
Federal Agent Using Rifle to Take Out Predators in San Dieguito Lagoon
Predation has become such a problem at the San Dieguito Lagoon near the Del Mar fairgrounds that an agent of the United States Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services division has been employing a rifle to kill a list of varmints …
U-T San Diego Publisher Manchester's Charity Cash Strays from San Diego
U-T San Diego publisher Doug Manchester has long been famous for his well-advertised gifts to charity, and has many buildings and other assorted improvements named in his honor to show for it, though recent recession years have apparently taken their …
DeMaio-Backing Lobbyist Retained to Push Manchester Mission Valley Makeover
Manchester Financial Group, the holding company for the San Diego media, hotel, and real estate empire of La Jolla's Doug Manchester, is using the services of Latitude 33 Planning and Engineering, a local development consulting and lobbying outfit, to help …
The Wealthy GOP Donor in the Peters Family Tree
Ex-San Diego city council Democrat Scott Peters, who managed to eke out a second-place finish in this month's 52nd District congressional primary to face off against Republican Brian Bilbray in the fall, has the support of his wealthy wife Lynn …
Congresswoman from Kensington Borrows Against Her Homes
Democratic Congresswoman Susan Davis has taken out mortgages against two houses she owns in San Diego's Kensington neighborhood and Washington, D.C., according to her annual statement of personal financial interests. The loans, made in January of this year, are both …
Planning Chairman Can Weigh in on Casino Plans of Tribe That Employs His Lobbyist Client, Agency Says
It isn't a conflict of interest for the chairman of the county's Jamul and Dulzura planning group to participate in discussions about a casino project being promoted by a lobbying firm that employs him on a project-by-project contractual basis. So …
Postal Service Audit Blasts San Diego Mail Carriers for Inefficiency
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," Herodotus wrote back in 503 B.C., but then he never met the efficiency experts from the U.S. Postal Service's …