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American woman arrested with stolen debit cards in Tijuana
24 year old found with 7 stolen cards in Zona Centro
A 24 year old United States citizen was arrested Monday, April 1st, in Tijuana by municipal authorities while in possession of seven stolen debit cards. Heather Nicole Bledsoe, the suspect, is a native of Missouri who is currently living in …
Deputy said he noticed heroin user in Vista restaurant
Needles and spoon and baggie of dope reportedly found on suspect
Deputy Marco Weston said he was eating at a Mexican food restaurant in Vista, with his sergeant, when he noticed a man exit the restroom there. It was about 8:45 p.m. on a Thursday evening, March 14, when the officers …
UCAN: supposedly, revenue should have gone into different year
Draft of new IRS filing raises questions of accounting under new management
According to a March 30 article in the Union-Tribune, the new management of deeply troubled watchdog Utility Consumers' Action Network (UCAN) has prepared a draft of its 990 report for the year 2009 to replace the one filed earlier by …
Southern California Edison prepares draft license amendment for San Onofre
Operator seeks to redefine "full power" as 70% of reactor capacity
Southern California Edison, operator of the long-idled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, has tentatively submitted paperwork for a license amendment that could lead to one of the twin nuclear reactors being re-activated before summer. Current rules as defined by the …
San Diego city attorney dances to lobbyists' tune in banquet video
Video posted by business lobbying group features Jan Goldsmith in chorus line to "help us roast our new mayor"
Lobbyists' banquets have not always been kind to Republican city attorney Jan Goldsmith. Back in February, newly elected Democratic mayor Bob Filner took to the microphone at the Downtown Partnership's dinner and reportedly poked a little fun at Goldsmith's infamous …
Another unreported DeMaio contribution disclosed by Sheppard Mullin law firm
Tally of previously undisclosed San Diego political contributions by hoteliers' law firm mounts, shedding additional light on anti-Filner money
Add another $500 to the list of campaign contributions heretofore undisclosed by the San Diego office of Sheppard Mullin, the giant international law and influence peddling firm that has represented some of the city's biggest industrial, corporate, and hotel interests, …
Drones big boost for county economy
As controversy intensifies, SD listening most intently, says Daily Beast
San Diego County is home to the two largest drone makers, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Northrop Grumman. Smaller local companies make drones, and others make components. In an article in the Daily Beast dated March 31, Erik Bruvold of …
Aeroméxico adds route from L.A. to Loreto, Baja California Sur
New route to service growing tourists in central BCS
New flights began on March 24th, 2013, between Los Angeles, CA and the central Baja California Sur (BCS) city of Loreto. According to PRWeb, the flights by Aeroméxico are to meet a growing demand of tourists who wish to visit …
Senate bill tackles H-1B reform to protect American workers
Iowa Sen. Grassley's bill would require employers to try to hire Americans first
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced a bill in March that would protect American workers from H-1B abuses. H-1B visas permit workers -- greatly from India -- to come to the U.S. for a …
Your SDGE bill may be going up 7.7%
Proposed decision would push up monthly rate by $6.55
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Administrative Law Judge John Wong yesterday (March 29) posted his tentative decision in the San Diego Gas & Electric general rate case, which has been dragging on since December of 2010. Fasten your seat belt: …
San Diego is a Target on North Korea's Attack Map
North Korea threatens to strike the United States - San Diego may be on the list.
On Friday March 29, national and international news agencies reported on North Korea's public threat to attack US cities as well as American military bases in Guam, Japan, and South Korea. North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, signed an order …
Oceanside gangster sent to California state prison this week
George Leno Orozco admitted meth sales
A 24-year-old Oceanside man admitted selling methamphetamine for benefit of a criminal street gang, in a plea deal he signed last month, February. In the deal, five other felony drug charges were dismissed, as well as a misdemeanor charge for …
Lobbyist for Fox Sports in Padres cable blackout also represents pot vending machine maker
Southwest Strategies, whose ex-employees include spokesman for city attorney Jan Goldsmith, seeks to cash in lobbying for medical marijuana law
As reported here two days ago, Southwest Strategies LLC, the influence peddling boutique founded by ex-San Diego Tribune reporter Alan Ziegaus, has been lobbying city hall of late on behalf of Fox Sports San Diego regarding Time Warner Cable's blackout …
Star NFL safety's lawsuit against La Jolla billionaire's son Harry Rady to play out in court
A judge issued tentative ruling denying Troy Polamalu's motion for summary judgement against Harry Rady
Safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers and resident of La Jolla, Troy Polamalu, is far from snatching victory in his lawsuit against Harry Rady, son of billionaire philanthropist Ernest Rady, and the realtors who sold Rady's former La Jolla home to …
Jury said Vista man guilty of resisting arrest
Man reportedly bloodied in the street, outside a house party
After a two-day jury trial, a Vista man was declared guilty of felony resisting-arrest, in San Diego’s North County Superior Courthouse. Eric Gregory Campbell, 46, was bloodied when his head hit the ground after a scuffle with a Sheriff’s deputy …
Personal and campaign gifts to council Democrats a long tradition at GOP's Evans operation
Todd Gloria only the latest in a long line of pro-Evans council members to get campaign cash, tickets, food, and other blandishments from major city lessee.
Now that San Diego's GOP hotel moguls have reportedly decided to call off their lawsuit and cut a deal with Democratic mayor Bob Filner - in what the mayor's fellow Democrat, La Jolla city councilwoman Sherri Lightner called a "kumbaya" …