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Hotel titan leading legal war against Democrat Filner had role in San Diego Nixon scandal
C. Terry Brown helped fund controversial effort to bring 1972 GOP convention to Richard Nixon's "lucky city"
The date was March 9, 1972, and San Diego's hopes to host that year's Republican convention were quickly unraveling. Lobbyist Dita Beard had spilled the beans to Washington columnist Jack Anderson about a deal by ITT Corporation, a giant conglomerate …
Mayor Filner, City Council and City Attorney Goldsmith to discuss Tourism Marketing District during closed session meeting
Meeting to discuss lawsuit brought on by government activist which challenges the validity of the TMD
Mayor Bob Filner and City Attorney Jan Goldsmith will square off once again over the fate of the controversial Toursim Marketing District. This meeting won't be in front of the cameras, it will be behind closed doors during a closed …
Advocacy group closely tied to big hotel owner backs legal attack on Filner
Executive board of business lobbying group includes Mike McDowell, vice president of corporate affairs for Atlas Hotels
As reported earlier this week by Dorian Hargove, city councilman Todd Gloria, who is not a particularly close ally of fellow Democrat Bob Filner, has called a city council meeting Monday to provide support to the hoteliers currently suing the …
SDGE, SCE must justify charging customers for idle San Onofre
You have paid $115 to $140 yearly as nuclear plant has been closed
An administrative law judge of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has ruled that Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE), co-owners of the now-closed San Onofre nuclear plant, must justify customer charges at meetings in …
Declining to take public questions, tax-backed tourism board votes to sue Filner
Four of nine marketing district board members skip controversial vote to sue San Diego mayor over disputed two-percent hotel levy
After an unexpectedly long meeting behind closed doors early this afternoon, five of the nine members of the San Diego Tourism Marketing District finally emerged to announce they had voted to approve suing Democratic San Diego mayor Bob Filner in …
Cipher expert hired to decode message in murder case
Source says disguised communication found in defendant's jail cell
The District Attorney’s office may have hired a cipher expert to decode a document found in the jail cell of a defendant charged in a notorious murder, according to a well-placed source. The defense attorney for one female defendant in …
La Jolla likely to keep "Christmas" in parade name
Talk of name change surfaces, but movement does not appear strong enough
La Jolla has 40,000 people, and about 12,000 are Jewish, according to the San Diego Jewish Journal, using figures from the United Jewish Federation. Many other La Jolla residents belong to non-Christian faiths and assorted ethnic groups. But La Jolla …
Tourism Marketing District has some economic incentive...for city councilmembers
City councilmembers have collected more than $42,000 from top three hotel companies part of TMD
For Monday's council hearing, council president Todd Gloria is planning to shed some light on the controversy surrounding the Tourism Marketing District. At the meeting, councilmembers will hear the benefits that the Tourism Marketing District, the special assessment paid by …
Humphrey's owner voted to sue San Diego mayor
Wealthy hotelier who runs internationally famous Shelter Island concert venue is vice-chairman of hotel tax district at center of Filner storm
San Diego's famed Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, where musical acts all the way from Tony Bennett to the Goo Goo Dolls have plied their trade for 31 seasons to sold-out crowds, has been getting some off-stage attention of late. …
Oceanside burglar handed out flyers with her name and phone number
Sentenced to prison for string of first-degree burglaries
A Vista woman passed out “lost dog” flyers, with her true name and phone number, while she was casing homes in Oceanside that she would later burglarize, according to papers in her court file. Toya Dahl Calderon, 30, was sentenced …
California brothers found dead in Mexicali
Two men from Calexico murdered in neighboring Mexicali
Two brothers, who were U.S. citizens from Calexico, California, were found dead in an abandoned gas station in Mexicali, Baja California on February 20th. The men, who were identified only as Daniel and Cristian, were bound with tape and suffered …
Disgraced Carlsbad cop has completed his “treatment”
Former police detective took evidence in front of witnesses
Michael Christian Koch admitted burglary, when he took heroin from the evidence room at Carlsbad police headquarters, the crime happened January 19, 2012. The 18-year-veteran was a vice and narcotics detective at the time of the incident. Koch was in …
Driver in fatal hit-and-run crash expects 22 years prison
Escondido man admitted manslaughter in plea deal
An Escondido man admitted gross vehicular manslaughter, and causing injury to multiple victims, and fleeing after a fatal car crash, in a plea deal in San Diego’s North County Superior Court. Three other felony charges, including DUI charges, were dropped …
New proposal from Mayor's Office opens commercial areas to medical marijuana dispensaries
New zones would include some commercial and light industrial areas.
Medical Marijuana patients in San Diego may not have to travel to remote industrial areas to get their medication, that is, if city councilmembers agree with a proposal to open new zones for dispensaries. A committee comprised of former task …
Alleged Mexican Mafia enforcer sent to prison
Gangster admitted assaulting blacks in Escondido
An admitted Escondido gangster was sentenced to 17 years State prison last month, on January 16, 2013. Ulysses Ocampo, now 23, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and other crimes, ten days before his trial was set to start in San …