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San Diego’s commercial fishermen are pawns in a billion-dollar game of chess, where their support for Seaport is important but maybe not essential. Read More »
Government
Crafting a future for San Diego’s Tuna Harbor
Plans to develop San Diego’s waterfront have birthed an unlikely alliance determined to wake a once-powerful industry from a long sleep. Read More »
Financial interests behind San Diego deals worth billions still undisclosed
Despite overwhelming voter approval in 1992, three separate city attorney recommendations and an inewsource investigation, the city of San Diego is still not following a law mandating government transparency. Read More »
$6 million in San Diego council office savings goes back to city departments, nonprofits
San Diego City Council members used savings from their district office budgets for $6 million in grants for neighborhood projects since 2012. Read More »
$5 million question for San Diego organizations: What’s the future of humanities grants?
Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have funded museum upgrades and teacher seminars in San Diego County for years. Read More »
Airport board responses following inewsource/CBS8 investigation: 1
inewsource will keep a running tally of airport board members who have not responded to our findings regarding the airport CEO's travel expenses. Read More »
San Diego airport CEO flies high; expenses top LAX, SFO, PHX
The San Diego International Airport’s outgoing CEO, Thella Bowens, spent more than $340,000 of airport money traveling throughout more than 20 countries in the past six years, according to an inewsource/CBS8 examination. Her trips — more than 125 of them approved by the airport’s board of directors — included stays at five-star hotels in Hawaii, China and Paris and $10,000 ... Read More »
Physician’s lawsuit says Sharp Grossmont endangered patients, reinstalled secret video cameras
A former Sharp Grossmont physician has sued the hospital saying its officials harassed him and forced him to resign after he criticized dozens of practices he claims endangered mothers and newborns. In his 48-page complaint filed in San Diego Superior Court, Grossmont’s former chief of anesthesiology Dr. Patrick Sullivan also alleges that Sharp administrators in January 2016 reinstalled secret video ... Read More »
What happens to San Diego institutions if Trump guts federal arts funding?
Grant data from the National Endowment for the Arts and interviews with local arts leaders shed light on how abolishing the NEA would affect San Diego. Read More »
Hundreds of homeless get free tickets
out of San Diego
Over the past five years, a downtown-based nonprofit has bused more than 1,000 homeless people out of San Diego in hopes of reuniting them with friends and family. The Family Reunification Program — established in 2012 by the Downtown San Diego Partnership — gives homeless in downtown a free Greyhound bus ticket to anywhere in the nation if they can ... Read More »