22 matches for 'san diego'

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  San Diego County Term Limits

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 9:17pm EST

  I was reading other blogs this evening (Sorry, San Diego Politico) and came skimmed through SD Rostra and a post by Jill Sims.
  
  It seems Jill considers herself to be a political intellect and not one to question others, but I had to post my responses to her [...]
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  San Diego County Term Limits Qualify for June Ballot

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 11:25am EST

  It has been reported the term limit measure for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors has been qualified by the San Diego County Registrar of Voters. The Board of Supervisors will have to place it on the Jan 12th agenda and vote to place it on the June ballot.
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  GOP Assemblyman Makes One of the Worst Attempts at Spin. Ever.

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 4:16am EST

  Did <span style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none">Republican Assemblymember Joel Anderson miss</span> the media training at the recent Assembly Republican Caucus retreat? His recent interview weekend a<span style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none">San Diego television station</span> about his fundraising activities is Exhibit A in how not to spin. Watch Anderson waffle, weave, and punt here.<span></span>
  <span></span>Anderson, a frequent contributor [...]

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  Tila Tequila’s boyfriend strikes back

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:13am EST by Bolsavik

  Number of comments: 4
  So there was the San Diego Chargers’ Shawne Merriman, partying away, with Tila Tequila the Web’s hottest babe giving him a lap dance, and who only hours before had been gushing about him on her Twitter. And then a few hours later she dialed 9-1-1 on him, got him arrested, and [...]

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  Are you ready for gang land bus safaris?

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:12am EST by Admin

  Number of comments: 10
  Have you ever been to the San Diego Wild Animal Park?  You get to ride a tram through their park and see the wild animals up close.  Now a non-profit organization in Los Angeles is proposing to conduct bus tours of gang-stricken areas in Los Angeles. “A group of civic activists, [...]

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  San Diego medical marijuana dispensary owner acquitted

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:43pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer

  Number of comments: 4
  

  Jovan Jackson, owner of a medical marijuana dispensary, was acquitted yesterday of possession of medical marijuana and selling it for profit. He had been ensnared in a sting operation whereby an undercover cop lied to a doctor to get a recommendation, which he then used to get marijuana from [...]

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  Is Jessica's Law Enforceable?

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:12pm EST by Korinke

  Jessica's Law, the landmark state legislation designed to keep convicted sex offenders away from children and the places they frequent, is under scrutiny for being so restrictive as to become unenforceable. 

  A new analysis in San Diego finds that More than 70 percent of registered sex offenders in San [...]

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  What summer jobs?

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:01am EST by Randy Bayne

  San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Ruben Navarrette has some advice for California’s college students. Instead of protesting a 32 percent hike in the fees extorted from you to pay the outrageous salaries of administrators — get a summer job or after school job.
  
  Have these young people never heard [...]

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  Surprise! General Moonbeam doesn’t know the law!

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 8:22pm EST by Terry Crowley

  Number of comments: 12
  Have you heard the one about the pimp, prostitute, politician and the community organizer? General Jerry Moonbeam is a national joke, with good reason. But the latest escapade of selective application of the law may finally reveal just how unfit he is. The San Diego office of ACORN is accused of a [...]

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  More ACORN Document Dumps

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:39pm EST by DRJ

  Number of comments: 10
  

  [Guest post by DRJ]

  The U.S. government never sleeps but apparently neither does BigGovernment:

  “ACORN’s San Diego office isn’t the only place its been careless with sensitive documents. Late last year, ACORN abandoned an office in Oklahoma. In its haste to vacate the office–and skip out on the landlord’s claim of [...]

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  DeMaio’s Proposal Creates Open Season for Government Contractors, Harms Local Economy

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:45am EST

  Press Release from Labor:
  
  DeMaio’s Proposal Creates Open Season for Government Contractors, Harms Local Economy
  Proposal would ban policies to help local workers and veterans; repeals living wage; could hand contracting power to unelected city manager
  
  SAN DIEGO – (November 23, 2009) – A proposed ballot measure supported [...]

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  ACORN Sting: Part 2, the Evidentiary Phase (Updated)

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:48pm EST by DRJ

  Number of comments: 10
  

  [Guest post by DRJ]

  As noted in this post, Patterico appeared on last night’s KFI broadcast guest-hosted by Andrew Breitbart. This was the same broadcast in which Breitbart introduced Derrick Roach, a California private investigator who reportedly discovered thousands of pages of ACORN documents trashed by the San Diego [...]

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  San Diego Mayor's Task Force Recommends... Bankruptcy?

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:34pm EST by Korinke

  A task force of local business leaders appointed by San Diego Mayor Jerry sanders to examine the city's financial position has come back with an ominous finding.  If "a series of urgent and drastic fiscal reforms" are not undertaken, bankruptcy may be the city's best option.

  Now, this may be the [...]

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  San Diego Mayor's Task Force Recomends... Bankruptcy?

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:34pm EST by Korinke

  A task force of local business leaders appointed by San Diego Mayor Jerry sanders to examine the city's financial position has come back with an ominous finding.  If "a series of urgent and drastic fiscal reforms" are not undertaken, bankruptcy may be the city's best option.

  Now, this may be the [...]

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  Who will watch the store now that he is gone?

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:48am EST by Ron & Anna Winship

  Number of comments: 1
  Dr. Jan Vandersloot.....was our personal hero! He
  marched across difficult terrain, when going another
  way may have been easier. He applied himself each
  day with a renewed fervor.....a renewal of spirit
  that was infectious. He wanted to make people aware
  that San Diego and other [...]

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  Tila Tequila goes au naturel, disses ex

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:58pm EST by Bolsavik

  Number of comments: 10
  In a streaming online video, MTV star Tila Tequila strips naked, pulls out her tampon, and did other strange stunts while ranting against her ex-boyfriend Shawne Merriman the San Diego Charger linebacker. The first site that reported the video is apparently KSDK here, and it describes the video as “bizarre.” In the [...]

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  S.D. Deputy DA buys medical marijuana

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:23pm EST by by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer

  Number of comments: 4
  

  You’ve got to love this one! A San Diego Deputy DA in the county where trying to bust medical marijuana facilities is almost a religion to law enforcement, had to admit in court that he patronized a medical marijuana facility on the advice of his doctor. Video in the [...]

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  I still like taking the train to San Diego

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:34pm EST

  

  The Amtrak trip to San Diego is about two hours longer than driving, but it's a lot less stressful than maneuvering your car through Southern California traffic. I visited my daughter in San Diego over the weekend to see her new apartment, and took the [...]

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  Her novels may not sell well, but when it comes to job creation in the Golden State, Ma’am Boxer has a knack for fiction

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:34pm EST by B. Daniel Blatt

  Number of comments: 1
  

  Last week, our state’s junior Senator, Ma’am Barbara Boxer, traveled with great fanfare to San Diego to boast about how many jobs the “stimulus” created only to have a news organization debunk her claim.  They found that the $787-billion bill she so energetically supported had created a grand total of [...]

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  Ed Boards Unload on CalPERS Over the Weekend

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:38pm EST by Korinke

  Editorial writers across California took cuts at the CalPERS pinata over the weekend.  The pension fund, which is coming off its worst year ever and a loss of over a quarter of its assets, is under fire for everything from poor foresight to bad PR.  As the San Diego Trib wrote: "Events have taken [...]

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  Rose Institute Mentioned Twice in San Diego Union Tribune

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:25am EST by Mike Whatley

  Today’s San Diego Union Tribune online mentioned the Rose Institute in two separate articles.  In an article about Congressman Brian Bilbray’s (R-50) 2010 reelection prospects:

  Squaring off against Busby is Solana Beach Councilman Dave Roberts (no, not the former Padres ballplayer), whose ability to raise funds ($153,000 in the last [...]

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  Items to watch at the CDP E-board.

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:20am EST

  Some events to watch at the CDP E-Board from San Diego.

  Caucuses: The rules committee is reviewing the definition of a caucus. There are 19 caucuses right now, three more pending, with several more being discussed. the total amount spent on the caucuses now exceeds the amount brought into the [...]