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More than 85 percent of the San Diegans who voted Tuesday on Measure J approved it. That means billions of dollars in city contracts, purchases, sales and leases with private companies will become more transparent. Again. Read More »
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inewsource launches San Diego campaign finance database
This election season, you can follow the money behind the highly debated San Diego ballot measures and closely watched City Council races using inewsource’s newest tool. Read More »
How to use inewsource’s city and county campaign finance databases
inewsource has created two databases to follow the money in San Diego politics, which we hope will make it easier for the public to understand who is funding political campaigns. Read More »
San Diego kept doing business with company that overbilled it, skirted living wage law
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 »
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 »