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Todd Gloria’s double-dipping interim chief may finally depart
How many terms as mayor does this make for Jerry Sanders now? Five? Six?— February 21, 2022 10:32 a.m.
Pernicano's Hillcrest property goes to San Francisco group
Disappointed but not surprised. Neither of them talk *to* reporters — and only *at* them during their photo ops.— November 30, 2021 1:26 p.m.
Pernicano's Hillcrest property goes to San Francisco group
Déjà vu all over again. As another *Reader* article (by Dorian Hargrove) noted, > “I completed a plan that was begun in 2011 to engage with the Uptown plan process that sidestepped the Uptown Planners and proposed a business friendly agenda for the plan,” wrote Nicholls in his June 2016 annual performance review to the association’s board of directors. https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2016/jul/20/c… As both a private corporation and a city contractor, it's a conflict of interest for them to work with developers against our elected community members. But the city continues to look the other way. People need to ask them why.— November 1, 2021 2:02 p.m.
Gloria barely escapes fine for donation reporting
> Brereton then went on to cite several so-called mitigating factors to justify why Gloria was getting no financial penalty. “The payment amounts were low, you filed the outstanding reports before the Enforcement Division contacted you, and **you have no prior Enforcement history**.” Anyone still doubt whether the FPPC is anything other than an incumbent protection racket for the majority party? Or that they lie to our faces about it, unafraid of being called out? https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2020/feb/05/r…— September 1, 2021 5:03 p.m.
San Diego showers money on homeless
Needs mentioning that, the day before the city auditor released its report with these numbers, it was noted in the *Union-Tribune* that just between March and September in 2020, San Diego spent $141.7 million on homeless "initiatives" that never housed a single one — which if divided by 5,000 unhoused individuals would be equal to simply paying them $28,340 each, https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/comm… Make no mistake: ending homelessness isn't the goal — enriching our elected officials' donors and the nonprofits that support them is.— August 4, 2021 2:14 p.m.
San Diego crashes its own campaign disclosure website
*What led city officials under the administration of Democratic mayor Todd Gloria to dispense with Netfile in favor of what appears to be a home-grown filing and disclosure system remains a tightly held city hall secret.* What secret? Is there a better way to ensure that disclosures required by law from Gloria or his allies that are embarrassing or explosive can be hidden and, if finally revealed, claimed as yet another "[inadvertent oversight][1]"? [1]: https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2019/08/29/p…— May 21, 2021 3:30 p.m.
Thomas House near Balboa Park gets reprieve
Very disappointing reporting. The issue was simply whether the City Council should support the determination of their own Historical Resources Board — or cave to pressure to repudiate it so a developer could turn a buck. What's even more disturbing is the arena given here to Andy Kopp, who also in his comments said that the Thomas House should be torn down because, when it was built, there was racism, and so it's racist to allow it to exist. Take [a look/listen][1] for yourself [at the 03:20:20 mark]. Neither he nor Rachel Laing (also quoted) are "neighbors," but are well known to CityTV and social media audiences alike as developer shills. It's rare when "following the money" doesn't end with a loss for the public, so we should be glad when it happens. [1]: http://sandiego.granicus.com/player/clip/8166?vie…— April 28, 2021 8:04 p.m.
Disclosure-shy developers draw hand-slap ethics fine
"The agreement levied a mere $750 fine against a committee calling itself Yes on Measure A – Homes for San Diegans to atone for the disclosure violations." So for hiding donations of $155,000, this committee only had to pay a penalty of 0.0048%, because it "fully cooperated with the...investigation"? Seems exorbitant considering the $200 (0.00067%) that Todd Gloria paid to be allowed to fradulently launder over $300,000. [https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2020/feb/05/r…] Still, how amazing! Who knew justice could be afforded with less than the equivalent of coins from the spare change tray at a convenience store?— April 19, 2021 9:19 p.m.
San Diego's climate change plan flying blind, auditor says
Webmaster: thanks in advance for fixing this— February 23, 2021 9:55 a.m.
San Diego's climate change plan flying blind, auditor says
No oversight, no performance measures, no accountability. Proof that the City's "[Climate Action Plan][3]" is nothing more than a mantra invoked to justify every community plan-busting scheme on behalf of developers from [Complete Communities][1] to [Plan Hillcrest][2]. [1]: https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2020/jun/01/s… [2]: https://www.planhillcrest.org/ [3]: https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/dec/16/t…— February 22, 2021 12:21 p.m.