Real World Bird Rock Releases Video Preview
The trailer for MTV’s Real World San Diego, the reality show stirring controversy in La Jolla’s tony Bird Rock and environs, has been released. As the La Jolla Light reported last month, residents there, fearing the worst, demanded police protection: …
UCSD Launches Liver Fixit Clinic in Las Vegas
If you’re in the liver repair and replacement business, set up shop in one of America’s “drunkest cities.” In the case of La Jolla’s UCSD, that just happens to be Las Vegas. Earlier this year Vegas placed 11th on a …
San Diego Alleged to Have Improperly Used State Lands Cash
The California State Auditor is out with a report citing charges by the executive officer of the State Lands Commission that San Diego officials allegedly used unspecified state funds in improper ways. The report, released yesterday, says that bad management …
General Atomics Faces Yet Another Uranium Cleanup Fight
The New York Times has reported via the Greenwire news service that Rio Grande Resources Corp., a subsidiary of La Jolla-based General Atomics is stirring opposition in New Mexico with its plans to delay cleanup of its Mount Taylor uranium …
Wealthy San Diegans Back Charter School Politics
At left: Buzz Woolley Things don't seem to be going so well for the future of charter schools in California, what with news today, reported by the Sacramento Bee, that the federal government has pulled $11.5 million of funding to …
Local State Assembly Member Staff Salaries Listed
In September of last year Democratic state Assembly Speaker John Pérez announced he was posting the salaries of all Assembly staffers online for the public to peruse. “The scandals in the City of Bell have made it clear more public …
J. Craig Venter: Savior or Charlatan?
Genetic engineering pioneer Craig Venter--whose foundation is set to build an elaborate new office and lab facility on a prime piece of property owned by UCSD, his alma mater--has made a good living out of high-profile endeavors, such as taking …
Free Airport Parking for County Pols Ruled Not a Gift
Lawyers for the California Fair Political Practices Commission have held that free airport parking enjoyed by members of the county board of supervisors, sheriff, and others thanks to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority isn't a gift under the …
Developers and Trash Collectors Weigh In Big for Bill Horn
Freshly re-elected San Diego County Supervisor Bill Horn took in a total of $56,037.93 in campaign contributions during the first half of this year, according to his recently filed campaign disclosure statement . After paying all the bills left over …
San Diego's Parking Station Vendor hit by FBI Raid in Portland
The offices and residence of Portland, Oregon city parking manager Ellis K. McCoy were raided this week by FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents, in what the Portland Oregonian newspaper calls "an intensifying public corruption investigation." According to the Oregonian: …
Clarke Claims CIA Cover-Up of San Diego 9/11 Plotters
The Daily Beast is reporting that, in an interview for an upcoming documentary, ex-White House counterterrorism honcho Richard Clarke accuses ex-CIA chief George Tenet and former associates of hiding vital intelligence regarding the presence of two Al Qaeda terrorists in …
Sempra and Spanos Family Gave Big Bucks to Rick Perry
Non-profit investigative journalism site California Watch is out with a list of California donors to conservative Texas governor Rick Perry's campaigns in that state. With no Lone Star state limits on the amount of money that can be given, Perry, …
Roberts 2014 Re-election Bid Funded by North County Cash
Barely done defending his seat in 2010, county supervisor Ron Roberts spent the first six months of this year raising money for a re-election bid three years hence, according to a recent disclosure filing for his new committee, Ron Roberts …
AEG Raises Farmers Field Lobbying Ante
Earlier today, AEG, short for Anschutz Entertainment Group, got the green light from the L.A. city council to proceed with the next step of its planned Farmers Field football stadium, one prospective tenant of which may be the San Diego …
Christian Science Monitor Investigates Mojahedin-e Khalq
At left: head of MEK, Maryam-Rajavi The Christian Science Monitor is out with a lengthy investigative piece today about the Mojahedin-e Khalq and efforts by its supporters to remove it from the U.S. State Department's list of international terrorist organizations. …
For Piece of the Action, UCSD Hypes the Chargers (Updated)
It may seem like a strange alliance to some, but state-run UCSD Health System, the hospital giant expected to gross some $900 million this year, is helping to market the San Diego Chargers to women in exchange for a piece …
Fletcher Backer and Pot Foe Faces Uranium Cleanup Woes
At left: Cotter uranium mine The cleanup of an old uranium processing mill in Colorado owned by La Jolla-based defense contractor General Atomics has hit yet another snag, with managers of the plant requesting that regulators allow them to stop …
Special Interests Raise Big Cash for "Voice of Downtown"
The Downtown San Diego Partnership, which calls itself "the Voice of Downtown" on its website, will be able to turn up the volume considerably, thanks to its political action committee, San Diego Jobs PAC, which has raised considerable money in …
SDPD Intelligence Hires ex-CIA Agent, Targets Somali Community
San Diego's growing community of Somali refugees and its alleged links to Harakat Shabaab al-Mujahidin, a revolutionary group said by some U.S. intelligence officials to have ties to Al Qaeda, has become a prime target of the San Diego Police …
"Dallas' Most Evil Genius" Funds La Jolla Super PAC
Americans for Rick Perry, the La Jolla-based independent super PAC backing the GOP Texas governor's possible presidential bid, collected a total of $193,000 during the first six months of the year, according to a report filed with the Federal Election …