Earlier this month, inewsource published a series of stories on San Diego’s North County Transit District — a taxpayer-funded public agency responsible for all the trains and buses running between San Diego, Oceanside and Escondido.
The investigation focused on a lack of oversight within the organization, as well as its high rate of turnover within upper management. Our reporting found that those factors have contributed to NCTD’s … Read More »
By Kelly Paice | inewsource
The courtroom was packed to watch the auction unfold as Scripps Health went head-to-head with Sharp HealthCare to purchase San Diego Hospice’s Hillcrest property. After 50 bids back and forth, Scripps beat out Sharp by $50,000, winning the hospice’s most valuable asset. Scripps bought the eight-acre property for a final price of $16.55 million. Sharp will act as a back-up bidder.
Attorneys for San Diego Hospice and its … Read More »
By Ryann Grochowski | inewsource
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner accused City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and several city council members of taking bribes in the form of campaign donations from hotel owners interested in keeping the proposed hotel occupancy tax alive, but an inewsource review of contributions shows the mayor exaggerated his claims.
The “tens of thousands of dollars” Filner asserted were far less than that, according to an analysis … Read More »
By Claire Trageser and Ryann Grochowski | KPBS/inewsource Investigations Desk
Employees of the city of Chula Vista can earn an extra $100 a year if they pass a test showing they’re bilingual. Firefighters and police officers in Coronado get $775 and $850 a year, respectively, to spend on their uniforms. And National City police officers get an extra 7 hours of overtime a week for taking care of their police dogs.
By Kelly Paice | inewsource
In a surprising turn of events in the San Diego Hospice bankruptcy case Wednesday, the attorneys for the hospice and its creditors approached the judge side-by-side agreeing to work together on selling the hospice’s most valuable asset, its Hillcrest property.
The unsecured creditors’ legal counsel formally withdrew its motion to appoint an independent trustee to the case, a third party who would … Read More »