More Ties Revealed Between Dumanis and Accused Campaign Moneyman
Over the past 18 months, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has said repeatedly that she barely knew José Susumo Azano Matsura, who’s accused of making illegal campaign donations to Dumanis and other San...
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Your Regular Reminder That the Mayor’s Big Streets Plan Is Actually Small
Politicians love big round numbers. Big numbers make it seem like leaders are taking big action to fix big problems. True to form earlier this week, Mayor Kevin Faulconer stood in front of road crews...
View ArticleThe Chargers Have Been Negotiating With L.A. Coliseum for a Year
This post has been updated. Just how seriously, and just how long the Chargers, have been toying with moving to Los Angeles remains a question that’s been difficult to answer. Now, via a nugget from...
View ArticleNo, a New Stadium Isn’t Good for the Economy
When San Diego City Councilwoman Lorie Zapf launched into her reasons for voting for a $2 million environmental review for a Chargers stadium that might never be built, you could tell it was coming....
View ArticleAttorney: Feds Were Investigating Filner for Almost His Entire Mayorship
Less than 10 weeks into Bob Filner’s brief tenure as San Diego mayor, he was already under federal criminal investigation for alleged political corruption, igniting a string of investigations that...
View ArticleStop Saying the Chargers Stadium Study Didn’t Cost Money
Politicians are fond of telling people that things don’t cost real money when they actually do. San Diego’s most recent example came during last week’s City Council decision to spend $2 million on an...
View ArticleThe Strange Road to a Football Stadium in Kooky Little Carson
The dreamers, swindlers, billionaires, foreigners and felons knew all the warts, but they still saw the dollar signs in an old industrial neighborhood with toxic waste embedded in its soil. Sure, this...
View ArticleNew Stadium Plan Would Be Bigger Taxpayer Investment in Football
This post has been updated. Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s report touting a new stadium proposal for the Chargers claimed it as “an opportunity to get a better deal for taxpayers” than what we already lose on...
View ArticlePoliticians, Take Note: More Potholes Mean Fewer Votes
San Diego’s streets are bad and have been bad for a while. But do voters really care? That’s what Ohio State University political science professor Vladimir Kogan set out to answer. Kogan, a former...
View ArticleFootage Witness: SDPD Officer Shot Unarmed Man ‘Hastily’ and With No Provocation
A San Diego police officer’s killing of an unarmed, mentally ill man in April was unprovoked, according to a sworn statement from someone who has viewed security camera footage of the incident. On...
View ArticleWe’re Suing for the Police Shooting Video
The questions began almost immediately after the shooting. Fridoon Rawshan Nehad, who was shot and killed by San Diego police officer Neal Browder in an alley in the Midway neighborhood in late April,...
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San Diego Police Have Turned Down Big Opportunities to Be Transparent
From fatal police-involved shootings, to high-profile political investigations to federally recommended reforms, San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman has sent a clear message: She’s going to try...
View ArticleCity Will Have to Pay for a More Earth-Friendly Stadium
The city of San Diego is rumbling ahead on its Chargers stadium plan and it’s going to have to spend more money to make it more environmentally friendly – a requirement if it wants to get on a much...
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SD Politicians Haul in Thousands in Shady Towing Donations
It was late 2011, Zyad Raheem said, when his boss asked him for a favor. Raheem was a driver for Midway-based Advantage Towing, but this request had nothing to do with hauling cars. Raheem said...
View ArticleWhat the Latest Turmoil at the San Diego Union-Tribune Means
When Doug Manchester owned the San Diego Union-Tribune, the lifelong San Diegan attempted to reshape the region in his image. Think a new Chargers stadium on the waterfront and front-page editorials...
View ArticleDistrict Attorney Has Received a Lot of Illegal Campaign Money
The district attorney has a problem with dirty campaign cash. Bonnie Dumanis received $10,000 in illegally laundered money during her failed 2012 mayoral campaign. More than a dozen additional...
View ArticleZimmerman Lays Out a Riot Standard for Releasing Body Camera Footage
When would the San Diego Police Department release body camera footage to the public? Maybe in the case of a riot, Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said Wednesday. Zimmerman was talking about the...
View ArticleMorning Report: The Downside to That Convention Center Report
We’ve been talking about expanding San Diego’s Convention Center for seven years now, and last week Mayor Kevin Faulconer came to the same conclusion as the guy two mayors ago did: It should be on the...
View ArticleTwo Years On, Illogical Sidewalk Policies Still Illogical
More than two years ago, San Diego’s City Council promised to fix the city’s illogical sidewalk policies that say property and business owners are responsible for fixing broken sidewalks outside their...
View ArticleSheriff Launches Internal Investigation Into Hate Mail Sent to Activist Group
Last night, the activist group United Against Police Terror San Diego received a hate email with the subject line: “Fuck You, You Stupid Pieces of Shit.” You can imagine how the email went from there....
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