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The San Diego Electrical Corporation Franchise
San Diego Gas and Electric Company (SDG&E) is the finest public utility for delivering gas and electricity to customers within the SDG&E service area. It has to be because it's the only one. SDG&E has an exclusive-inclusive franchise from San …
FYI: CPUC WEBA Application links
The following links lead to copies of filed documents and prepared testimony for rate increase authority to fund utility Wildfire Expense Balancing Accounts (WEBA). August 2009 WEBA application Sept. 22, 2009 SDG&E advice letter to CPUC regarding CPUC approval of …
Smuggled Congo Gold: No Sempra Connection?
Smuggled Gold = 5 Million Dead in War? A recent 60 Minutes segment on CBS highlighted how revenues from gold smuggled out of the Congo helps to finance the on-going conflict there. According to the CBS report, gold mined by …
Sempra Energy Wins Rejection of Energy Contract Renegotiations
Jury finds "company lied to state negotiators" (U-T A1), but no harm to state Today's San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Sempra Energy won its suit against California, preventing the renegotiation of energy crisis contracts that the state claimed were obtained …
Local Tie to Dubai Debt Problems?
The Dubai request to delay interest payments on billions in debt servicing may be cause for investors to look for ties to current holdings. Among the major financial firms with a hand in Dubai World's debt is Royal Bank of …
CPUC Division of Ratepayer Advocates Queries SDG&E in Secret on Gas Holder Legal Expenses
In mid-2009, San Diego Gas and Electric Company (SDG&E) provided secret responses to the Division of Ratepayer Advocates of the California Public Utilities Commission (DRA CPUC). DRA wanted to know if SDG&E was attempting to pass costs through to consumers …
No Trial in Encanto Gas Holder Asbestos Mess
On October 16, defendants San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) and Sempra Energy won their motion for summary judgment in the San Diego Superior Court Proposition 65 matter entitled Encanto Gas Holder Victims et al. v. SDG&E et al. …
The Start of Demolition: Who's Who Part II
It might be a good idea to skim "The Start of Demolition: Who's Who" before viewing this addition. A few weeks ago, there was a deposition in the matter of Encanto Gas Holder Victims v. SDG&E. What was really curious …
April 28th "Fifth Amendment to the Central Imperial Redevelopment Plan, Project No. 126095"
Apparently the influence of Carolyn Smith over the future of the Encanto Heights Annex to the City of San Diego is not done yet. When she was forced to leave her presidential post at the Southeastern Economic Development Corporation, one …
The City-State of San Diego?
After the ballot measure to stack something like a football stadium on top of a seaport loading terminal and the South Bay airport-island patent (those proposals are/were real, so far as I am not making them up), I thought that …
Redevelopment Agency Block Grant Scandal: No Quick Resolution Here
There's about $13 million in ineligible and "unsupported" community development block grant funds that passed through the hands of the Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC). We already know that SEDC was generally the personal sandbox of fired SEDC executive Carolyn …
Redevelopment Agency Block Grant Scandal: the Carolyn Smith Legacy
In a recent article published in our distinguished daily paper, it was disclosed that "nearly $2 million" in federal community development block grants (CDBG) may have to be paid back by the City of San Diego's Redevelopment Agency as a …
No SEDC Firing Bonus Check Soon for Smith
Citing a a likely outcome in favor of plaintiff Ian Trowbridge, the Court in his lawsuit against the Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) in San Diego to not pay fired president Carolyn Smith's hundred-thousand-dollar firing bonus "without cause" did enjoin …
Will SEDC Board Members Testify on Smith Raises?... and other issues
Word comes from our crime-fighting daily paper that the Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) board might have actually approved raises for its now-ex president Carolyn Smith, practically doubling her pay in the decade and a half that she was the …
After the Crash of 2008
It's not that I am hoping for the collapse of Western Civilization, but I am hoping that there will be a change in it after the subprime/derivative debacle that some of us have taken the time to notice in the …
Why I am voting No on Proposition B
Proposition B is entitled "THE PORT OF SAN DIEGO MARINE FREIGHT PRESERVATION AND BAYFRONT REDEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE" (all caps in original) where text of the local ballot initiative is located at: http://www.portofsandiego.org/docman/doc_download/1370-the-port-of-san-diego-marine-freight-preservation-and-bayfront-redevelopment-initative.html Don't bother looking for it in your voter pamphlets. …
How SEDC proves we don't really have a strong mayor
A little while back, San Diegans were invited to vote on charter revisions to allow us to have a strong mayor. I don't think we've gotten one yet. Maybe it was just me having high expectations, but I more or …
Freeze-Dried Felons Floating in Space
Yesterday's shocking local headline for me was the murder of a 17-year-old schoolgirl at the Old Town Transit Center, where her female friend was also stab-wounded. The 17-year-old male assailant apparently had been arguing with the two girls just earlier …
Recent SEDC Audit to City Raises More Questions than Answers
The City of San Diego Redevelopment Agency director and 4th District council member Tony Young was recently heard to say that a little fiscal mismanagement was part of any government agency, and that the $20 million or so involved in …
Fraud, CCDC, SEDC, and the not-so-controlling parent CSDRA (AKA San Diego City Council)
In most towns and cities, there is but one redevelopment agency, if there is one at all. Here in San Diego, we have three, and none of them is without controversy. Papa bear is the City of San Diego Redevelopment …