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San Diego city officials kept doing business with a janitorial company even after a 2016 audit found the contractor overbilled the city almost $33,000 and violated the city’s living wage law and California’s labor code. Read More »
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Public reacts to ex-San Ysidro school superintendent’s pay — and it’s not positive
“It’s almost disturbing to see this level of incompetence from the school board,” said San Diego Councilman David Alvarez, whose district includes San Ysidro. 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 »
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 »
San Diego will reopen locked restrooms at Fault Line Park
The public restrooms attached to a restaurant at Fault Line Park — closed for almost a year because the restaurant staff voiced safety concerns related to the area’s growing homeless population — will reopen to the public in the coming weeks, a city of San Diego spokeswoman said. Just two months after the East Village park opened in August 2015, ... Read More »
Tough to get data from San Diego’s open data initiative
More than a year and a half after San Diego launched its open data initiative, it's not clear if San Diegans will ever get an accounting of all the city's data. Read More »
San Diego Attorney’s Environmental Lawsuits Could Be Tainted By Conflict Of Interest — with links
The wife of lawyer Cory Briggs, who sues local, state and federal government agencies over environmental violations, held a key position in a La Mesa company on the other side of his litigation. The potential conflict of interest and its effect on the taxpayers has not been publicly known. Read More »
San Diego Attorney’s Environmental Lawsuits Could Be Tainted By Conflict Of Interest
The wife of lawyer Cory Briggs, who sues local, state and federal government agencies over environmental violations, held a key position in a La Mesa company on the other side of his litigation. The potential conflict of interest and its effect on the taxpayers has not been publicly known. Read More »