Thursday, May 17, 2012
Witness to 2010 SUV plunge off Carlsbad cliff sought $256,000 from Chargers great in April.
Updated at 9 a.m. May 18, 2012 Six days before killing himself, Junior Seau was being represented in a downtown San Diego courtroom by an attorney fending off a personal-injury lawsuit. According to court documents, Murray Lea sought $256,000 from Seau as compensatory damages in connection with Seau’s 2010 SUV plunge off a Carlsbad cliff. Lea says he was close enough to the car he could have grabbed the door handle, but injured himself jumping away. He listed a San Marcos address in the lawsuit, but now says he is homeless—living out of a van on Coast Highway and fearing for his life as a result of publicity about the case. “I’m suing a dead legend for a quarter-million dollars,” Lea noted Thursday afternoon from his car in Carlsbad. But …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
May 21 is deadline in San Diego County for registering to vote in the upcoming election.
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Tuesday, May 15
San Diego County residents wanting to vote in the June 5 primary must register by May 21. If you’re not sure if you are registered, you can check your status online. This year’s ballot will feature open primaries, in which the top two vote-getters in state or federal races advance to the November election—no matter what party they represent. Citizens can register on the County of San Diego Registrar of Voters website or at one of the following locations: For more information, visit the Registrar of Voters website.
Monday, May 14, 2012
The ship, which is about to be commissioned, can be viewed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, but under tight security.
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Monday, May 14
The amphibious transport dock USS San Diego is scheduled to move Monday from Naval Station San Diego to Navy Pier, where it will be opened for free public tours this week. The tours come in advance of the 684-foot-long ship's commissioning, which is scheduled for Saturday, according to the Naval Surface Force public affairs office. The tours will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, and strict security rules will be in place. Anyone 18 and older will be asked to show federal or state photo identification, and minors must be accompanied by an adult with valid ID. The USS San Diego pulled into its new home port in its namesake city last month, three weeks after it left a shipyard in Mississippi. During those three weeks, the …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Lemon Grove funeral director joins in procession honoring Navy Lt. Christopher Mosko.
Mourners gathered at North Island Naval Air Station Thursday as the remains of Lt. Christopher Mosko were escorted back to Coronado, where he was assigned to the Naval Amphibious Base. Hundreds of officers and sailors from Explosive Ordnance Disposal units attended the ceremony, along with Mosko's wife, parents and other family members. Mosko served with EOD Mobile Unit 3. Each of his loved ones was escorted in turn to take a moment beside his casket outside the charter plane, as members of the Patriot Guard Riders held flags aloft. As the family stood with the casket, an officer walked Mosko's poodle mix, Bailey, out to join them. The brief ceremony concluded with the family following the casket in a procession through Coronado, over the …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Employment will increase by 271 positions despite the decrease in dollars, according to a staff report.
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Tuesday, May 8
San Diego County will spend nearly 2 percent less in the fiscal year starting July 1, according to a budget presented to the Board of Supervisors Tuesday by the county's chief administrative officer. Walter Ekard presented the $4.77 billion spending plan to the board, which will begin its budget deliberations June 11. The spending plan represents a 1.9 percent reduction in spending compared to this year's budget of about $4.86 billion, Ekard said. Supervisor Dianne Jacob was upbeat. "This is a smaller budget this year than we've ever had," she said, "and we're doing more with less, and it's because of the creativeness and the innovation and the charge that everyone has at every level to try to do the best that we can to try to provide the …
Deadline for applying for an absentee ballot is 5 p.m. May 29, according to registrar’s office.
Residents who have registered as absentee voters will soon receive ballots for the June 5 primary election. According to the San Diego County Registrar of Voters, an estimated 724,000 vote-by-mail ballots are being distributed in the county. Deadline for applying for a mail ballot—also called an absentee ballot—is 5 p.m. May 29. At the state level, local voters will choose a new lawmaker for the 79th Assembly District. Mary England, La Mesa Chamber of Commerce president and Lemon Grove councilwoman, is one of the candidates. Also running for the 79th are Mount Miguel High School alum Matt Mendoza (R), Chula Vista city councilman Rudy Ramirez (D), SDSU professor Dr. Shirley Weber (D), Workforce Program Director Sid Voorakkara (D), and …
Monday, May 7, 2012
The funds will come from the state government.
The San Diego County Office of Education will receive $22,500 in state funds to enforce tobacco-free school policies and collect data on the prevalence of tobacco use and other behaviors that put students' health at risk. More than $410,000 in Tobacco Use Prevention Education dollars from the state Department of Education went to 30 districts across California. The winners in TUPE competitive bidding demonstrated the greatest tobacco-use prevention efforts, and proposed programs that will likely be effective, said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. "Schools can help our kids learn to avoid dangerous behaviors -- including tobacco use—early," Torlakson said. TUPE is a three-year, $16.5 million competitive state grant…
U-T San Diego makes a big push for Carl DeMaio as San Diego mayor. Does it help or hurt?
As a policy, Patch does not endorse candidates in elections. But we back any effort to explore all sides of a race or ballot initiative. We have a standing invitation to all incumbents and office-seekers to blog on Patch—giving them direct, unfiltered access to their communities. But it’s traditional for newspapers to endorse candidates for local, state and national office. Locally, U-T San Diego on Sunday used a wrap-around of the front page to display its editorial backing of Carl DeMaio for San Diego mayor. In light of media fracturing—with many sources of news and opinion available—do newspaper endorsements still carry any weight? Do people take cues from the local metro daily or the free weeklies? Or are these efforts now meaningless?
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Federal report urges fixes, and utility president agrees—but deflects blame for the outage.
A federal report on the September 2011 blackout found “grid operators’ lack of adequate real-time situational awareness of conditions throughout the Western Interconnection.” Two agencies called for “more effective review and use of information.” SDG&E President Mike Niggli on Tuesday said his utility would expedite the recommended fixes in planning and coordination with other utilities but deflected blame—saying his company’s system “operated the way it was designed and should have.” Are you confident a massive outage won’t happen again?
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
But federal report blames “inadequate planning and a lack of observability and awareness of system operating conditions on the day of the event.”
Updated at 4 p.m. May 1, 2012 Despite a critical 151-page federal report on the causes of the regionwide power outage of September 2011, the president of San Diego Gas & Electric Co. said Tuesday that his utility acted properly. “From what we can see and all the review we’ve done and what appears to be in the FERC report, … it appears that our system operated the way it was designed and should have,” said Mike Niggli, SDG&E president and chief operating officer. But the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission report issued earlier Tuesday faulted lack of planning and coordination between utilities and called on SDG&E and other Southwestern companies to make fixes. “From San Diego Gas & Electric’s standpoint, our focus is on making sure that …
The Gunny
5:03 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
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