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In light of the history of waterfront development in San Diego, here are four things to keep an eye on with the new Seaport project. Read More »
Waterfront
In the shadow of Seaport
San Diego's aging generation of fishermen find themselves in a position of power: Able to make or break a billion-dollar development proposal called Seaport. Read More »
The port, the lawyer and the salesman
How San Diego's vision for a world-class waterfront vanished. Read More »
Port says personal emails are not the public’s business
The Unified Port of San Diego has declined to release any communication about the public’s business that might exist in Peters’ personal accounts, saying state law doesn’t require it. Read More »
New city hall on Manchester’s waterfront could gain traction
San Diego's Doug Manchester has suggested city hall move to the Navy Broadway complex, and at least one mayoral candidate suggests it’s an option. Read More »
Personal calendar reveals DeMaio met with Manchester
San Diego mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio keeps a private calendar that shows he had appointments with newspaper owner Doug Manchester in December and in May, despite his office insisting no records of communication exist between the two men. Read More »
Carl DeMaio’s office says no record of communication between DeMaio, Lynch and Manchester
City councilman and mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio has not communicated with U-T San Diego’s publisher Doug Manchester or CEO John Lynch about anything — including the newspaper’s plan for a football stadium on the waterfront — on his city email, phone or any other city government device, his office said today. Read More »
Timeline of emails between U-T CEO and port commissioner
Interact with the timeline below to follow the various versions of an email U-T San Diego CEO John Lynch sent to Port Commissioner Scott Peters August 9. The email asked Peters how he intended to vote on the the 24.5-year lease with Dole Food Company at the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal downtown. The expansion of the lease was seen as ... Read More »
Port Commissioner claims U-T CEO threatened him; CEO says, Not True
The CEO of U-T San Diego Thursday denied sending a threatening email to a port commissioner running for Congress, suggesting the email had been doctored and “somebody could go to jail” for sending it. Read More »
Port Commissioner: “The UT is Coming after Us”
The head of the county’s largest newspaper threatened a port commissioner running for Congress with a newspaper campaign to dismantle the Unified Port of San Diego. Read More »