Bonnie Dumanis pays off her Bank of America loan
District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has closed out her campaign committee, Bonnie Dumanis for District Attorney, but not before raising enough money from local fat cats to pay off the $6500 balance on a $20,000 loan at 9.5 percent from Bank …
Is the Union-Tribune deal about to close?
Is the close of the Union-Tribune sale to Beverly Hills-based Platinum Equity by the Copley Press near completion? So says one source at the U-T plant, who claims that documents including an offer of employment with the new company, to …
Who's Lurking Behind That Petition?
Call it non-disclosure politics. Chula Vista Citizens For Jobs And Fair Competition and its parent, the Associated Builders And Contractors of San Diego, have accused the City of Chula Vista of placing unconstitutional limits on how initiative petitions can be …
Tom Hayden vs. La Jolla's Institute of the Americas
Former Democratic state senator and 1960s radical Tom Hayden is still on the warpath against the evils of capitalism. Lately he’s been attacking Jeffrey Davidow, president of the La Jolla-based Institute of the Americas, who got time off to work …
Union-Tribune Circulation Drops 9.53 points
Monday through Friday average circulation numbers for the San Diego Union-Tribune have dropped 9.53 percent for the six months ending March 2009 from the same period the year before, according to numbers just released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, …
The San Diego Pot and Coke Connection at work
With the convention business squeezed by recession, ever wonder who’s filling all those airline seats to San Diego? Likely suspects: drug dealers. A lot of news coverage here highlights the Mexican side of the drug trade, but a recent report …
George Munger and the Golden Girl: Memories of J. David Dominelli's Ponzi Scheme
Wednesday's death of restaurateur George Munger at age 69 has brought back memories of his link to J. David Dominelli, San Diego’s most notorious Ponzi swindler. In the early 1980s, Piret’s was the place to be seen for up and …
New Padres ownership raises conflict of interest questions for a CCDC board member
As we reported last month, new Padres owner Jeff Moorad has yet to tell the city all the namesof his partners in the deal to buy the team from divorce-embattled John Moores. Ex-city councilman Bruce Henderson warned that keeping the …
Got Questions? Twitter the Guv today
Got questions for Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger? Unless you're a lobbyist like Bob White or the other well-heeled influence peddlers of Sacramento, the best bet may be to submit via Twitter today with the hash tag #askGS during Arnold's "Ask the …
NBC News shuts down Sacramento bureau
With the Union-Tribune sale pending, locals are worried about losing the paper's Sacramento bureau, which could be folded to reduce costs for the new owners, Platinum Equity of Beverly Hills. But there's a more immediate threat to an informed local …
Norv Turner's dinner in Los Angeles
Chargers coach Norv Turner has been spotted in Los Angeles, pitching the team to 40 to 50 would-be season ticket holders during a "meet and greet" dinner that the team threw at Home Depot Center--and fueling rumors that the team …
Stamper stumps for pot
Ex-San Diego assistant chief of police Norm Stamper, who lost out to Jerry Sanders for the job of top chief way back in 1993 before leaving for Seattle to become chief of police there, is now blogging for the Huffington …
Public retirement fund chiefs got huge bonuses
The Sacramento Bee breaks the word today that California's two biggest public employee pension funds awarded millions of dollars in bonuses last year to their execs and money managers, despite huge losses in the market.-mp From the Bee: "The biggest …
Bersin Undercover
Ex-San Diego schools chief and former U.S. Attorney Alan Bersin, who never seemed to be much of a fan of the press unless it was well controlled, is off to a familiar start in his new role as the Obama …
Gore Vidal fundraising for Floyd Morrow
Author Gore Vidal will be in town to raise funds for mayoral candidate Floyd Morrow
We just got this news release: San Diego Mayoral Candidate Floyd Morrow invites you join him for an evening with: Gore Vidal When: This Friday, 4/18 “Meet and Greet” Social Hour with Legendary Gore Vidal – 3:30 to 5:30 Suggested …
Cell Phone Photos
Latest cell phone photos
We'll be showing up at the political events around town with our cell phone camera. If you've got an event that needs to be covered. let us know. #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; …
California Exit Poll Results on CNN
The California exit poll results have just been released by CNN
Check out these EXIT POLL results on CNN.com. As expected, Latinos go to Clinton by a large margin, as do Whites over 60. But Blacks are "N/A". What's up with that? Another reason to stay up a bit longer. Re …
Super Tuesday in San Diego: The Very, Very Slow Count
Seiler v. Bowen means a slow count; tune in tomorrow at 8 AM.
Okay, here we go. Here's the LINK TO THE RESULTS PAGE AT THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY REGISTRAR OF VOTERS SITE. But don't count on an early count. Based on some word of mouth earlier today, this is going to be …
Super Tuesday in San Diego: Ron Paul MeetUp in C.V.
Ron Paul has two Meet-Ups; Westgate and Chula Vista
Here's another MeetUp. Two, actually. GOP's Ron Paul backers are MeetingUp at LA BELLE PIZZA, 373 Third, Chula Vista and the WESTGATE.
Super Tuesday in San Diego: Huckabee Meet Up at the Westgate
Head to the Westgate for the Huckabee Meet Up
Just found out that the local Huckabee camp is MEETING UP at the Westgate tonight. They say a "major candidate" may be there, but that could be in the eye of the beholder. At the moment he's projected to be …