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Government
The mayor, City Council and thousands of residents have all expressed countless ways to solve the city's crushing budget problems. And not one of those suggestions has included a tax increase.
With no final resolution made on what to cut, the mayor and council members ratchet up their rhetoric at second hearing on $43 million budget gap.
Unpopular pension perk has become a target as city finances bleed a deeper red.
The company's withdrawal from the Chula Vista waterfront project comes as the city is already struggling with the fallout from the housing bust and its own political slugfest.
Angela Harris billed SEDC for work that a client says she didn't do and spoke at public meetings in support of the agency's president and her initiatives without disclosing that she was on its payroll.
City Council and city residents took on Sanders' budget cuts in marathon meeting in which city officials acknowledged that the financial outlook is worse than they were saying it was even last week.
The mayor is being criticized for providing scant justification for the cuts he is proposing to eliminate $43 million shortfall.
Federal agents removed computers from the public agency's headquarters last month in the wake of a wide scandal.
In the City Council races, Democrats focused on neighborhood issues that seemed to resonate better than the overarching themes of fiscal reform pushed by Republicans, and they might have gotten some help from Obama.
Want to be the next head honcho at CCDC? Better be ready to fess up your finances.
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Hot Topics and Special Reports
Former Centre City Development Corp. President Nancy Graham resigned in July. But her past business dealings and connections to a developer doing business with CCDC, the city's downtown redevelopment agency, have remained under scrutiny.
Starting in fall 2006, voiceofsandiego.org began running a series of investigations into the Southeastern Economic Development Corp., a redevelopment arm of the city of San Diego tasked with revitalizing one of its most blighted neighborhoods. The coverage has spurred investigations and audits, forced change and captured the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting.
San Diego son George Gorton has had a front-row seat for history, from Nixon to Wilson to Yeltsin. But his bout with Parkinson's, and how he thinks he might have gotten it, could just be his most interesting tale of all.
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Nancy Graham's Changing Story
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