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Massive security contractor faces growing protest in rural California town over 824 acre base 04/03/2007 @ 2:09 pm Filed by Miriam Raftery and Muriel Kane Adve...
Filner wants review of Blackwater He considers bill to stop Potrero plan By Anne Krueger STAFF WRITER April 14, 2007 Rep. Bob Filner says he is exploring legis...
Private security contractor Blackwater USA plans to expand its business by selling airships and armored vehicles, the company's president said. The Moyock based c...
NEWS RELEASE Ray Lutz for Congress 2010www.VoteRayLutz.comMedia Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director619 447 3246 / brennan@VoteRayLutz.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELE...
NEWS RELEASE Ray Lutz for Congress 2010www.VoteRayLutz.com Media Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director619 447 3246 / brennan@VoteRayLutz.comFOR IMMEDIATE RELE...
HUNTER DRAWS FIRE FOR VOTE AGAINST TRIBAL LAW ORDER BILL Hunter representative defends vote on cost, transparency issues Ray LutzRep. Duncan Hunter August 3, 20...
HUNTER DRAWS FIRE FOR VOTE AGAINST TRIBAL LAW ORDER BILL Hunter representative defends vote on cost, transparency issues Ray LutzRep. Duncan Hunter August 3, 20...
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:55:07 GMT Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on the United States and its allies to stop supporting private security companies, saying...
East County candidate threatens hunger strike BY MICHELE CLOCK, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2010 AT 6:23 P.M. Campaigning for public office c...
Lutz s last supper before the Hunter hunger strike AUGUST 13, 2010 12:43 PM Usually, when Ray Lutz goes to Greek Style Chicken in El Cajon, he gets the lemon ch...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER July 31, 2007 EAST COUNTY #8211; Anger over the proposed Blackwater USA training facility in Potrero has led to the co...
August 11, 2010 6:13 pm One of the frustrations of political challengers is getting the incumbent to debate. Ray Lutz, a Democratic candidate in the 52nd Congre...
REGION: War rarely mentioned in congressional races LACKLUSTER ECONOMY, JOBS AND IMMIGRATION CITED AS TOP VOTER CONCERNS By MARK WALKER mlwalker #64;nctimes.com...
Candidate continues hunger strike for debate BY MICHELE CLOCK, UNION TRIBUNE TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2010 AT 8:09 P.M. PHOTO BY JOHN GASTALDO Congressional candidate ...
Candidates undergo hunger strike By KASIE HUNT 8/17/10 10:10 PM EDT Sen. Carl Levin (D Mich.) was probably embarrassed when a student protester shoved a pie i...
The Slatest Evening Edition MEREDITH SIMONS Congressional Challengers Go on Hunger Strike If politicians should be wary of upstarts with a " lean and hungry ...
Congressional Candidate on Hunger Strike Feels Pretty Good Ray Lutz, a Democratic candidate for California's 52nd congressional district, is hungry. He's taken an...
CA 52: Dem longshot fishing for a debate with a...unique...tactic Frontrunners often eschew debates, for the simple reason that they don't want to give media focu...
California Congressional Challengers On Hunger Strike To Force Debate With Duncan Hunter The Huffington Post Nick Wing First Posted: 08 18 10 01:13 PM Up...
Should Blackwater USA be allowed to convert a valley bordering national forest lands into a private military and law enforcement training base? No way, says a ...
REGION: Congressional longshots capitalizing on hunger strike RAY LUTZ AND MICHAEL BENOIT GETTING PUBLICITY, BUT LITTLE NOURISHMENT By MARK WALKER Posted: Wedne...
Duncan Opponents on Hunger Strikes By JANIE LORBER Rep. Duncan D. Hunter s challengers want to debate him so badly they can taste it probably because they haven...
going to a debate with Duncan Hunter is not important enough for me to die August 19, 2010 6:54 AM The Duncan Hunter debate me now or I won t eat story may be ...
Two Congressional Hopefuls Hungry for a Debate In the political news void that is August, the media have stumbled on two Californiacongressional hopefuls hungry f...
Reformas sí, muros no: Ray Lutz Por Alexandra Mendoza De llegar al Congreso, el aspirante demócrata Ray Lutz respaldaría una reforma migratoria que beneficie a m...
California House Candidates Stage Hunger Strike Over Duncan Debates By Christopher Weber Two congressional candidates who want Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R Calif.) to...
Candidates Go On Hunger Strike, Jack Daniels Woos Reporters With Booze and More in Capital Eye Opener: August 19 By Evan Mackinder on August 19, 2010 10:10 AM Yo...
REGION: Hunter to debate on Oct. 15 only By MARK WALKER mlwalker #64;nctimes.com The Duncan Hunter campaign on Thursday continued to reject calls from hunger st...
Hungry for debate, two California congressional hopefuls stop eating By Daniel B. Wood, Staff writer / August 20, 2010 Los Angeles CNN anchor Kyra Phillips could ...
State court declares Roseville Galleria's speech rules unconstitutional dwalsh@sacbee.com Published Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 A state appellate court has declared...
Candidates go on hunger strike due to lack of debates By Elizabeth Marie Himchak Congressional candidates Ray Lutz and Michael Benoit are one week into a hunger ...
FRANK: Candidates are really hungry for debate By Jeff Frank TGI Saturday: Political candidates have tried a lot of stunts to push opponents into agreeing to deba...
No Partisan Politics Please Randy Dotinga's contemptuous and misleading description of the hunger strike by the Congressional challengers to Duncan Hunter's son n...
Hunger Strikes, Water Rates And Drunk Driving Fatality In East County BY MAUREEN CAVANAUGH, PAT FINN August 23, 2010 MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanau...
CANDIDATES SOUND OFF AT POLITICS IN PARADISE FORUM By Miriam Raferty August 22, 2010 (El Cajon ) Two Congressmen and four local lawmakers fielded questions from...
Fed up, Lutz ends hunger strike By Kasie Hunt After 11 days on a hunger strike, California Democratic congressional candidate Ray Lutz is throwing in the napkin. ...
LUTZ, BENOIT HUNGER STRIKES GAIN NATIONAL MEDIA ATTENTION Candidates are hungry for debate with Rep. Duncan Hunter East County News Service August 22, 2010 (San...
'These private contractors can get away with murder... They aren't subject to any laws at all' Published: 04 June 2007 Iraq is rapidly vanishing into the mists of...
Candidate: It's time to eat again After 11 days, East County political activist breaks fast began to get debate BY MICHELE CLOCK, UNION TRIBUNE ORIGINALLY PUBLIS...
Hungry for Publicity Getting publicity when you're not the political incumbent is difficult understatement. Well, Ray Lutz, 53, solved that problem in an innova...
REGION: Congressional candidate ends hunger strike By TERI FIGUEROA Posted: Monday, August 23, 2010 8:39 pm Eleven days after going on a hunger strike, congres...
Letters: medal deceit, debates and dogs BY UNION TRIBUNE MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 2010 AT MIDNIGHT Debate hunger strike All candidates running for an office should agr...
Polling and Political Wrap, 8/24/10 by Steve Singiser Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 08:00:05 PM PDT THE U.S. HOUSE CA 52: The debate is on, and the hunger strike is off T...
DYING TO DEBATE August 24, 2010 Political candidates often have trouble getting their opponents to debate. When you re ahead, why debate? At least that s how the ...
GOP Convention and the Duncan Hunter Hunger Strike CityBeat grades the Prop 20 T Shirt, DeMaio's Pension Tsunami and Lutz and Benoit's media stunt By CityBeat Sta...
COUNTYWIDE DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE RALLY IN EAST COUNTY SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 Public invited to meet elected officials and candidates August 26, 2010 (La Mesa) Instead of...
Press Conference Today at RB Community Park Applauding Passage of Chelsea s Law, 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, August 31, 2010 By Staff Report San Diego County, Calif. (Augu...
The following press release was sent by Melissa Bean's 8th congressional district Democratic Party primary contender, Randi Scheurer. This release reveals a perso...
Incumbent congressman would rather not campaign It s tough running for Congress in inland North County when there s a D attached to your name.Just ask Ray Lutz,...
Battle Begins For CA Congressional Seat By Claudia Strasbaugh San Diego's "Democratic Unity Campaign" kickoff and rally was held this weekend at Harry Griffen Par...
Why won t Hunter debate?In a time of too much biased media, negative ads and million dollar commercials to go around, voters deserve the one real time experience ...
Hunter got break on taxes for home By Jeff McDonaldUNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Back in the winter of 1994, after reapportionment reshaped California's congressiona...
30 False Fronts Won Contracts for Blackwater By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI Published: September 3, 2010 WASHINGTON Blackwater Worldwide created a web of mo...
MEDIA ADVISORYRay Lutz for Congress 2010www.VoteRayLutz.comMedia Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director619 447 3246 / brennan@VoteRayLutz.comHunger Strike candi...
REGION: Birthright Citizenship Debate Goes Mainstream By Edward Sifuentes, North County Times A call to end automatic citizenship for the children of illegal immi...
Californians debate debates: Who gets to participate? First it was hunger striking candidates. Now a Libertarian running for secretary of state in California laun...
BIG BANK BACKS DOWN FOR NOW; HALTS FORECLOSURE ON CANCER PATIENT'S HOME AS CONGRESSMAN LEADS VIGIL By Miriam Raftery I hope this will spread across America. C...
2010 Candidates Refuse To Debate Their Opponents: What Are They So Afraid Of? First Posted: 09 10 10 11:58 AM Updated: 09 10 10 11:58 AM Read More: 2010 Deb...
FEATHERS FLY IN CONGRESSIONAL RACE; 2 CANDIDATES TO DEBATE SEPT. 21 IN RAMONA _ We have a chicken suit and we may have someone wear it to stand in for Duncan Hunt...
Hunter foes face daunting task DEMOCRAT AND LIBERTARIAN SAY YOUNG LAWMAKER RIDING FATHER'S COATTAILS Freshman Congressman Duncan D. Hunter says there's one thing ...
Powerlink booster may have powered up too soon Official was lobbying within 10 months of leaving the state By Jeff McDonald Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 8:14 p.m. ...
REGION: Issa won't debate Democratic opponent SPOKESMAN SAYS CONGRESSMAN FOCUSED ON WATCHDOG ROLE Rep. Darrell Issa won't debate his 49th Congressional District o...
House passes small business lending bill The congressional stalemate on the small business lending bill, H. R. 5297, ended today at 3:03 pm. The House approved th...
Net Neutrality, Telecom Monday, September 27, 2010 1:42 PM Net Neutrality Bill Gives FCC No New Rulemaking Power By Eliza Krigman The FCC will not have rulemaki...
Our endorsements people Find out whom we like to serve you in national, state and local offices By CityBeat Staff U.S. Senate With California newspapers describ...
REGION: Hunter assailed during congressional debate FRESHMAN LAWMAKER ARGUES HIS VALUES ARE IN KEEPING WITH 52ND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT By MARK WALKER mlwalker ...
Only Debate in 52nd Congressional District Pits Incumbent vs. Challengers Rep. Duncan D. Hunter makes, takes shots in Cuyamaca College forum with Democrat Ray Lut...
Absentee voters change election dynamics CHANCES FADE FOR LAST MINUTE HIT PIECES AS INCREASING NUMBERS VOTE EARLY By MARK WALKER mlwalker #64;nctimes.com Post...
HUNTER DEFENDS RECORD AGAINSTS ATTACKS ON TWO FRONTS IN DEBATE AT CUYAMACA COLLEGE October 18, 2010 (El Cajon) Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, who served in the A...
Slush funds, oil imports and lying mailers CityBeat grades Whitburn and Roberts, Hunter and Lutz, and lying a union mailer By CityBeat Staff Slushy terrain Coun...
By Mighty Thor 1/24/08 11:41 AM EST 0 Comments ShareThis Just in over the transom from the Hunter for Congress campaign ... Linden Blue to Help Lead Hunter...
LGBT friendly candidate takes on Duncan D. Hunter for Congressional seat Democrat Ray Lutz held hunger strike to force a debate with Republican opponent By Pat S...
Treehuggers International 2010 Voting Guide U.S. Representative, 52nd District Ray Lutz Ray Lutz worked with the town of Potrero to kick out the corporate welfa...
REGION: Candidates in last minute push REGISTRAR REPORTS MORE THAN 303,000 BALLOTS ALREADY CAST THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING It's crunch time for the candidates. Expec...
Pros and Cons of Marijuana Legalization Aired at City Council Meeting Council members hear out speakers, including Congress candidate Ray Lutz, but don't weigh i...
Rep. Duncan D. Hunter's Campaign Money Goes in 'Other' Direction Republican lists no assets or income outside congressional pay but is using part of his war ches...
Final Turds Blossoms tally CityBeat reveals which campaigns smelled the freshest and funkiest The end is nigh! No doubt, there will be cheers in some political ...
Jim Stieringer submitted his resignation Friday in hopes of winning a job with the district, but when he didn't get it Wednesday morning, he rescinded his action....
Blackwater in Potrero? No way April 19, 2007 If there is any career pursuit that we, as Americans, have come to despise, it is that of the military mercenary. Ou...
By: CHRIS BAGLEY Staff Writer SACRAMENTO Although the state's chief elections official had signaled the possibility that she would order the replacement or ma...
His application for a job at the Grossmont health district was rejected By Steve Schmidt Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 10:06 p.m. Document Download: Grossmon...
Board rejects Jim Stieringer s application for district staff job. Now Stieringer, who retired Friday, asks for his Board seat back but his future remains in limb...
By SteveSchmidt Monday, November 15, 2010 at 7:48 p.m. Jim Stieringer Pension math Board pension: Retiring at age 69, Stieringer is expected to net a pension wit...
Jim Stieringer's old seat on the Grossmont Healthcare District board will go to someone else, the board decided Monday morning after meeting in closed session at ...
Jeff Scott, general counsel for the district board, tells California Aware that the closed session in Jim Stieringer case was legal because it involved potential ...
Letter says the board violated the Brown Act with a "secret meeting" in which directors decided not to give former board member Jim Stieringer his seat back. The ...
By: CHRIS BAGLEY Staff Writer Voting machines used in Riverside and numerous other California counties are vulnerable to manipulation by politically motivated h...
By Jeff McDonald Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 5:48 p.m. Michael Covert Palomar Pomerado Health Overall 2010 11 Budget: $480 million Population Served: 541,000...
Californians Aware used the threat of lawsuit to gain a reversal from the board, which now will meet Tuesday on Jim Stieringer's request to get his former seat ba...
By Union Tribune Editorial Board Saturday, November 20, 2010 at midnight Why a 69 year old health care district trustee tried to switch to full time employee stat...
By AnneKrueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER October 29, 2004 Jim Stieringer says he wants to see change in the makeup of the Grossmont Healthcare District board ...
By Deborah Hastings The Associated Press Saturday 11 August 2007 There are now nearly as many private contractors in Iraq as there are U.S. soldiers ...
SDG E counting on production from Stirling dishes to meet clean energy goals. By Onell R. Soto Originally published December 13, 2010 at 6 a.m., updated December ...
Judith Lewis Mernit Dec 13, 2010 10:05 AM On Thursday morning, San Diego Gas Electric (SDG E), finally sunk a shovel into the ground for the transmission proj...
Monday 07 February 2011 by: Kanya D'Almeida Inter Press Service Report New York In the quiet desert community of Nomirage, located just 20 kilometres east...
By Jeremy Scahill If you think the U.S. has only 160,000 troops in Iraq, think again. With almost no congressional oversight and even less public awareness, the B...
United Methodist minister David Jenkins was meeting with fellow clergy last year in the small Kansas community of Sharon Springs when one of the pastors made what...
By JeremyScahill While BlackwaterWorldwide and other firms reject the label #8220;mercenary #8221; firms, Blackwater executives have even turned the grey area in...
Grossmont Schools Chief Rebuffs Demand, Will Attend Event at Sonrise Church in Santee District calls Santee church a fixture in the community that is “regularly u...
DID SCHOOL DISTRICT VIOLATE CONSTITUTION BY HOLDING EVENT AT CHURCH? Superintendent Ralf Swenson Multiple locations on district campuses were available, but ...
Published: March 6, 2011 Are State and Local Government Employees Paid Too Much? It s not an easy question to answer for a number of reasons. Here s a primer on ...
By Kevin G. Hall McClatchyNewspapers WASHINGTON From state legislatures to Congress to tea party rallies, a vocal backlash is rising against what are perceive...
By J. Harry Jones Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 2:15 a.m. Miles deep into the largest Indian reservation in San Diego County, a company with ties to at least one fo...
Marines, SEALs confirm training on Indian reservation By J. Harry Jones Friday, April 22, 2011 at 5:35 p.m. An image from a three minute marketing video for the E...
RALEIGH, N.C. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that blamed the security company formerly known as Blackwater for the deaths of four contractors killed in...
Is assassination becoming a popular way to deal with political problems? Israel thinks it is appropriate to assassinate a Hamas figurehead "the same way bin Laden...
Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater s Founder By MARK MAZZETTI and EMILY B. HAGER ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates Late one night last November, a plane ca...
By Andrew Howell August 17, 2007 Despite San Diego holding one of the nation's largest concentrations of military and law enforcement, it is critically short on t...
By LizNeely STAFF WRITER January 24, 2007 EL CAJON #8211; Rentals and attendance are up at the East County Performing Arts Center one year after new management t...
Late last night after a 5 and a half hour marathon city council meeting, in which 72 speakers took the floor to express the need for the Occupy OC Tent Village to...
In the wake of last night's violent police raid on the Occupy Oakland encampment (a still tense situation that we're now on the scene covering) and two similar l...
From Lorena Gonzalez, the San Diego and Imperial County Labor Council s Secretary Treasurer, regarding the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy San Diego campaigns t...
Blackwater is all wrong for Potrero By Jan N. Hedlun April 19, 2007 I am the newest and the only Potrero Planning Group member against the proposed Blackwater ...
By LizNeely STAFF WRITER July 13, 2006 EL CAJON #8211; The city has reached a settlement with the former manager of East County Performing Arts Center. Advertise...
June 29, 2006 Russell's Christian Community Theater has been operating ECPAC for the past six months under the name Art Beat Management. CCT also operated the cen...
_ This is what they do in banana republics and undemocratic societies. former San Diego City Attorney MichaelAguirre, calling arrest a violation of the Civil Rig...
Occupy San Diego activists marched into City Hall Monday morning, looking to make a "citizen's arrest" of Mayor Jerry Sanders. About two dozen occupiers were met ...
A group of about 20 Occupy San Diego protesters attempted a citizen s arrest Monday of Mayor Jerry Sanders for allowing a temporary name change of Qualcomm Stadiu...
Most of us have heard of Intel s marketing slogan Intel Inside. For about 10 days this holiday season, Qualcomm Stadium is going to have Snapdragon inside. And ...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) About 20 members of Occupy San Diego tried to make a citizen's arrest of Mayor Jerry Sanders Monday, alleging that he committed embezzlement whe...
By U T San Diego Sunday, January 15, 2012 I read with great dismay and disappointment that San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders tried to justify his actions that went co...
WARNER SPRINGS — A judge has ruled that a lease between the Los Coyotes Indian tribe and a military training business is invalid and ordered the business to remov...
San Diego s chief financial officer questioned whether the city was being appropriately paid for a temporary name change of Qualcomm Stadium to endorse the compan...
Nuclear power was supposed to be too cheap to meter, but a science based nonprofit that advocates for environmental and public health issues has published a new r...
It may be curtains for the theater that aimed to be East County’s cultural jewel. Shuttered and in need of major renovation, the East County Performing Arts Cente...
JayPrice, Staff Writer In yet another twist to a long running lawsuit against Blackwater Security Consulting, a federal appeals court has halted an arbitration he...
How do you move a 640 ton, 65 foot tall steam generator 15 miles up the coast? Very slowly. Over the past three weeks crews moved an enormous generator from Camp ...
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Massive new turbines expected to increase electrical output from the San Onofre nuclear plant will be installed starting this month, part of a $280 million upgrad...
May 3, 2012 (El Cajon) It's been two years since the East County Performing Arts Center went dark. But on Monday, a group of concerned citizens seeking to "Save...
El Cajon city leaders on Tuesday edged away from a proposal to replace the East County Performing Arts Center downtown with a Marriott Courtyard hotel, saying the...
The chairman of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission toured the San Onofre nuclear power plant Friday with elected officials. He later met with activists who...
Dear Readers ... A Guest Editor's Note this issue by PAUL KRUZE increases our awareness of what is happening to a favorite East County THEATER many of us ...
Back on the climate change question. There is some reluctance on your part to agree with the notion that climate change is both real and largely caused by human a...
By Jenny Mandel jmandel #64;govexec.com February 8, 2007 Army officials acknowledged Wednesday that a private security firm was hired under a contract for Iraq ...
By Miriam Raftery June 27, 2012 (El Cajon) At a press conference on June 22, members of the new ECPAC Foundation provided details to media on their proposal to r...
OCEANSIDE About 10 people urged the Oceanside City Council on Wednesday to place on a future meeting agenda a discussion on the nuclear power plant in San Onofre....
For the past four years, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has had the highest number of safety complaints of any nuclear plant in the country. That s not th...
Fueled by last week's news of design flaws at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, more than 20 anti nuclear activists on Wednesday asked the Oceanside City Cou...
LOS ANGELES (AP) The future of the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant could balance on an inescapable question: Is it worth the money to fix it? Engineers ...
By Alan Levin and Matt Kelley, USA TODAY WASHINGTON #8212; Poor Defense Department oversight of private companies that fly military missions in war zones was par...
California energy officials are preparing for the possibility the San Onofre nuclear power plant could be offline through 2013 or 2014. While there is no timetabl...
Although state and utility officials hope San Onofre will be producing some power as soon as this fall, they're scrambling to avoid a dark 2013 and 2014. The nucl...
Replacing four of the San Onofre nuclear plant s biggest parts took 10 years and cost almost $700 million. SDG E and others said the project was premature. It was...
After last year's Fukushima nuclear disaster, a subcontracting company working to clean up the plant told workers to lie about high radiation exposure in a bid to...
(Financial Times) Nuclear power is so expensive compared with other forms of energy that it has become "really hard" to justify, according to the chief executiv...
CHICAGO #8212; The University of Illinois has canceled a partnership between its police training institute and a military contractor best known for providing secu...
I am at the airport having just left almost 1,000 of my best arts friends who had come together for the Americans for the Arts' Annual Convention in San Antonio. ...
EL CAJON What was built to be East County s premier performing arts venue remains mothballed and in need of repairs, but a campaign is underway to bring the dow...
EL CAJON Dustin Holum, a 2000 Valhalla High graduate, grew up performing, volunteering and later working as a member of a youth theater group at the East County...
Goldman Sachs is majority owner of property management firm headed by Senator Feinstein s husband Story by Miriam Raftery, photos by Ron Logan November 30, 2011 (...
What was Paul Russell thinking? Russell, executive director of Art Beat Management, an affiliate of Christian Community Theater, was quoted July 12 in the Union T...
'Shut Down San Onofre': The New Front Line in the Fight Against Nuclear Power Jon Wiener on July 5, 2012 5:52 PM ET Not long after the meltdown at Fukushima, wo...
August 27, 2007: Security company Blackwater U.S.A. is buying Super Tucano light combat aircraft from the Brazilian manufacturer Embraer. These five ton, single e...
Negin: Renewable energy would create more jobs than nuclear power Elliott Negin, SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR If Christine Todd Whitman were really serious about promotin...
Conservative group's candidates found not qualified for judicial positions by County Bar May 24, 2010 (San Diego) Judicial races are rarely headline news. But a...
ECM article helped shed light on misreprentation, Lincoln Club s Stirling reveals By Miriam Raftery Jim Miller October 11, 2012 (San Diego) Jim Miller, candidate...
By Miriam Raftery May 30, 2012 (San Diego) Accusations are flying in the contentious race for San Diego Superior Court seat 25. Candidate Jim Miller has been re...
The Lincoln Club of San Diego has rescinded an endorsement it made for San Diego Superior Court judge, after allegations that the lawyer was posting on Facebook a...
New cooling system would mean more towers in coastal reserve Reducing the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station's thirst for salt water would cost about $2.5 bill...
When San Diego residents have an idea they think could improve their local government, Council Policy 21 tells how they can get the proposal before voters. The po...
Your browser does not support the audio element. It was a lesson in fighting city hall or, in this case, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. An activist engineer...
AUDIO: http://www.kpbs.org/audioclips/16167/ It s a David and Goliath situation, but a panel of independent judges at the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is con...
Original article by Roger Challberg has been withdrawn upon request of the author. You may read this article in the September 9, 2007 Edition of the BackCountryMe...
(CNSNews.com) The Towne Center in El Cajon, Calif. is a mostly abandoned mall; an unlikely stage for battle over religious freedom. But it became a battleground w...
Late in the evening on Wednesday, one of the busiest and most unnerving times Washington has seen in a long while, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid quietly appoi...
Public Utilities Code Section 455.5 http://www.lawlink.com/research/Level2/107821 (a) In establishing rates for any electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation,...
With nuke near death, consumers staring at $3B tab By Dan McSwain5 p.m.May 4, 2013 The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been closed for 14 months after ...
Sidewalk chalk activist lands in court City attorney: "graffiti is an issue that is very prevalent in San Diego" By Trent Seibert6:02 p.m.June 26, 2013 The San Di...
Chalk up a victory for lawful medical marijuana patients today in California. If you get busted running a collective, you should be able to raise a medical mariju...
By this case: * PEG channels cannot require permission from everyone if it is "news gathering." * Cannot limit photographers from recording illegal acts. ...
This case finds: * As to the First Amendment claim under Section 1983, we agree with the Smiths that they had a First Amendment right, subject to reasonable ti...
This case finds: * A citizen can record city council meetings to allow for expression under first amendment * "the ban on Thompson's tape recorder has s...
July 31, 2007 02:06 PM ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) Private security contractor Blackwater USA plans to expand its business by selling airships and armored veh...
Tibor Fischer reviews Blackwater: the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill His father was a self made millionaire. He became a US Na...
In 1961, Eisenhower warned, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence...by the military industrial complex. T...
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO East County activist Ray Lutz received a $60,000 legal settlement from the city Tuesday stemming from his 2011 arrest for trespassing while t...
The First Amendment is alive and well in San Diego, however, not without the help of attorneys and the courts. On Tuesday, December 10, the city council is expect...
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire USNewswire/ A First Amendment attorney who the San Diego City Attorney was prosecuting has now had all charges against him ...
The operator of the recently retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been cited by nuclear safety regulators for failing to properly check the design of...
The operator of the recently retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been cited by nuclear safety regulators for failing to properly check the design of...
Panel in hot water over Blackwater vote Recall petition, lawsuit under way By Anne Krueger STAFF WRITER May 12, 2007 The planning group for the backcountry com...
by Nathan Hodge MOYOCK, N.C. #8212;First rule of Blackwater is: You do not talk to the clients. Back in October, I travelled to Camden County, North Carolina for ...
By RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press Writer Wed Aug 29, 7:47 PM ET WASHINGTON The Army will examine as many as 18,000 contracts awarded over the past four year...
East County Performing Arts Center in talks with Rock Church By Karen Pearlman8:47 p.m.Feb. 27, 2014 The shuttered East County Performing Arts Center is in down...
US Draft too? ''A warning about the prospect of an imminent but staged "9/11" attack followed by a strike on Iran and imposition of martial law in the US has be...
* SD UT Nuke Pg1 Sun 4 20 14.pdf: Print Edition Story as PDF * SSD UTnuke_story Pg2 Sun4 20 14.pdf: Print Edition Story as PDF Pg 2 At issue is whether utilit...
This consultant report was prepared in response to Assembly Bill 1632 (“AB 1632” Blakeslee, Chapter 722, Statutes of 2006), which directed the California Energy...
For many decades, the California Public Utilities Commission and the big companies it regulates — Pacific Gas Electric, Southern California Edison, Southern Cal...
It seems right out of a shoot 'em up Hollywood thriller: A shadowy private American security company led by a messianic right winger by the name of Erik Prince wh...
California historically has offered one of the most constructive regulatory environments in the nation, says Hugh Wynne, a Wall Street research analyst. Because ...
Posted May 8, 2014 Media Contact: Maureen Brown, (626) 302 2255 ROSEMEAD, Calif., May 8, 2014 Parties representing labor, consumers and community based organiza...
Nuclear deal slams consumers, as usual By Dan McSwain5 p.m.May 10, 2014 FILE In this Friday, June 7, 2013 file photo, surfers pass in front of the San Onofre nu...
Who pays for a worthless power plant? By Morgan Lee6 a.m.May 11, 2014 San Onofre nuclear power plant Nuclear plants across the United States routinely swap out m...
Heated battles over who pays for last year's permanent closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant — and how much — are just getting started. Even some consumer...
Ratepayer rep s role questioned Consumer advocates say group fell short on San Onofre settlement By Jeff McDonald6:12 p.m.May 13, 2014 As regulators and utility ...
Settling The Bill For Closing The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Wednesday, May 14, 2014 By Erik Anderson Utilities, consumer advocates and critics are in...
Is the Public Utilities Commission Complicit in a Cover up? May 20, 2014 Leave a comment By Roy L Hales The attached videos of the May 14 Settlement Evidentiary h...
Mike Aguirre gets cussed out at CPUC The president of the California Public Utilities Commission swore and angrily refused to answer questions last week at an unu...
PERFORMING ARTS TENANTS SOUGHT With renovation of ECPAC set to begin, El Cajon wants to arrange some long term leases By Karen Pearlman 5:06 a.m.May 22, 2014 el ...
Peeved Commissioner Peevey hints at CPUC's disarray The regulators' fixed deal is naked By Don Bauder, May 26, 2014 On May 14, the California Public Utilities...
Attempting to solve the continuing mystery we could call Who Killed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station? U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer has demanded that the Nuclear...
The California Public Utilities Commission is a disaster. The degree of incompetence is so high, it's hard to find anything the PUC does well under President Mich...
Barbara Boxer wants U.S. probe on San Onofre By: Associated Press May 28, 2013 06:09 AM EDT LOS ANGELES — U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer wants the Justice Department to...
Southern California Edison and the maker of steam generators at San Onofre nuclear plant knew about problems with the generators even before they were installed, ...
Yesterday (June 16), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) held an open meeting in Costa Mesa at which proponents and opponents of the San Onofre paym...
By Jodi S. Cohen and E.A. Torriero Tribune staff reporters September 7, 2007 University of Illinois officials cut ties Thursday with Tom Dempsey, the beleaguer...
Timing of UCAN payment questioned Consumer group and CPUC deny any connection to San Onofre matter By Jeff McDonald7:36 p.m.July 11, 2014 A surfer rides a wave i...
Plan to Track Quake Threat Is Questioned By JOHN UPTON A hulking research vessel would haul air guns, echo sounders and other instruments along the California co...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two years before an immense coastal earthquake plunged Japan into a nuclear crisis, a geologic fault was discovered about a half mile from a Ca...
FILE This Monday Nov. 3,2008 file photo shows one of Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach on California's centra...
SAN DIEGO Southern California Edison on Tuesday abandoned a plan to send a 600 ton decommissioned reactor vessel on what would have been the longest voyage ever...
IN THE PAST few years there has been increasing concern about global climate change on the part of the media, politicians, and the public. It has been stimulated ...
Editorial: California Public Utilities Commission sweetly snuggles up to PG E By the Editorial Board Published: Thursday, Jul. 31, 2014 12:00 am Last Modified...
Diablo safety committee asks for further review on cooling system BY COLIN RIGLEY In a special meeting of the Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee, members...
Recent years have not been kind to the California Public Utilities Commission. Two high profile disasters—the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, which killed ...
There is an extraordinary push by certain individuals to extol the wonders of thorium fueled nuclear reactors. In fact, so concerted is this push that some blame ...
12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, September 6, 2007 By DavidMcLemore / The DallasMorningNews dmclemore #64;dallasnews.com The Border Patrol runs glossy Web videos and a...
A new standoff has emerged in deliberations over who should pay for the breakdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Two consumer advocates have urged ...
Rock Church to lease El Cajon arts center By Karen Pearlman9:40 p.m.Aug. 12, 2014 EL CAJON — The Rock Church will be a part time resident of the East County Perfo...
By David Hasemyer UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER September 12, 2007 City Attorney MichaelAguirre wants to know the story behind KPBS' decision to cancel its public a...
"We've produced a video about a mega church invasion," said Bonnie Mann from the dais at Tuesday morning's city council meeting. Ms. Mann is a member of Concerned...
Church not good neighbor, residents say Complaints include noise, traffic, parking By Jeanette SteeleSTAFF WRITER November 6, 2006 The Rock Church has become a pe...
A chip off the bold Rock Ex con says mega church fired him for reporting child molester By Dave Rice, Aug. 28, 2014 * A pastor formerly employed by the Rock...
A mighty presence Rock Church has become one of the country's largest megachurches; critics see evils of traffic tie ups, noise and exclusionary message By Sandi ...
Critics say El Cajon officials are going backwards by entering into negotiations with The Rock before securing a theater manager By Kinsee Morlan Ray Lutz criti...
Update: You can read the letter submitted to the City here. Sept. 5, 2014 (El Cajon) The El Cajon City Council ordered City Manager Douglas Williford to enter int...
By: EDWARD SIFUENTES Staff Writer NORTH COUNTY Marine Corps Capt. Duncan Duane Hunter will not be the only candidate for the 52nd Congressional District seat...
Beginning in 2012, I used the Nuclear Regulatory Commission non concurrence and differing professional opinion (DPO) processes to raise nuclear safety issues affe...
Improving the Security, Transparency and Efficiency of California's 1% Manual Tally Procedures Joseph Lorenzo Hall, UC Berkeley School of Information1 Abstract: ...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) The San Onofre Nuclear Plant conducted what's expected to be the final test of its sirens Wednesday. The system is designed to alert people in c...
A recently published Harvard University meta analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that children who live in areas with highly ...
U.S. nuclear safety regulators missed red flags in 2009 when they agreed to pre approve steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear plant without a thorough review...
Headline in hardcopy edition: EL CAJON VENUE SHOULD BE OPEN FOR WIDE PUBLIC USE The East County Performing Arts Center (ECPAC) has been closed unreasonably for f...
The East County Performing Arts Center (ECPAC), which is owned and operated by the city of El Cajon and located within the downtown district, closed its doors alm...
A San Diego based consumer coalition wants placed on hold a multibillion dollar settlement proposal for nuclear plant costs at San Onofre, in response to revelati...
A group of utility consumers announced a federal lawsuit Friday against the California Public Utilities Commission and one of the state’s largest electric compani...
February 22, 2013 Civic Center Act Amended to Expand Definition of “Direct Costs” School Districts May Charge for Use of School Facilities and Grounds RELATED AT...
As California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey and the utilities he regulated extol his legacy of largesse, we should consider what’s needed a...
* Original Link: http://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/04/f0/brc_finalreport_jan2012.pdf The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (BRC) was fo...
Note: this section is applicable to contractors, such as Blackwater Section 4 Contractors 1) Sending States may contract for any services, equipment, provisio...
IMPORTANT QUOTES In the context of the overall waste management system, the Administration supports the goal of siting, designing, licensing, constructing and com...
Registrar had vote count issues before Vu says there’s no connection between Ohio case and Chula Vista By Greg Moran8 p.m.Jan. 23, 2015 San Diego County Registra...
Meeting links CPUC probe to San Onofre Edison discloses it met at luxury hotel in Poland with former regulator By Jeff McDonald5:44 p.m.Feb. 9, 2015 Hotel Bristo...
Iraq ordered the cancellation on Monday of the operating licence of US security firm Blackwater after it was involved in a shootout in Baghdad that killed eight p...
SCE reports private contact in 2013 with PUC head Peevey In 2013, then PUC President Michael Peevey spoke privately with an SCE executive about San Onofre. (Mark ...
By Jeff McDonald5:05 a.m.Feb. 2, 2015 Even as state investigators rummaged through Michael Peevey’s kitchen, office and garage last week, many of the people he re...
Shut up! Shut up! Edison admits secret huddle with Michael Peevey on San Onofre By Don Bauder, Feb. 9, 2015 This afternoon (February 9), Southern California Edi...
Furor over $250 a head party honoring former CPUC head By Jaxon Van Derbeken February 11, 2015 Updated: February 11, 2015 6:24pm Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle...
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: September 17, 2007 Filed at 11:48 a.m. ET BAGHDAD (AP) The Iraqi government said Monday that it was revoking the license of a...
REGULATOR, EDISON HAD ‘REGULAR’ CHATS Emails reveal calls with PUC member Florio, whose contacts with PG E prompted recusal By Jeff McDonald5:05 a.m.March 3, 201...
Water Fluoridation Linked to Higher ADHD Rates BY DOUGLAS MAIN 3/10/15 AT 2:44 PM FILED UNDER: Tech Science, Water Fluoridation, Public Health, ADHD, Environmen...
BAY AREA STATE How banquet for ex PUC head Peevey went sour for UC Berkeley By Jaxon Van Derbeken March 29, 2015 Updated: March 29, 2015 7:21pm * Photo: Pa...
Blackwater security firm banned from Iraq Story Highlights * Condoleezza Rice set to call Iraqi prime minister to discuss gunbattle * "We are taking it ver...
PUC scandal stretches to UC Berkeley Former PUC President Michael Peevey has been criticized for emails and other communications with utility officials. (Cheryl A...
Probe of back channel dealing continues at California PUC BY DAVID SIDERS DSIDERS@SACBEE.COM 03/29/2015 4:57 PM 03/30/2015 2:18 PM On Sept. 9, 2010, a massive...
Goldman school declines funds from controversial dinner for former state public utilities president BY NATCHAPOL PRADITPETCHARA STAFF Update 3/29/15: This arti...
UC struggled with Peevey party funds Dean of public policy school felt loyalty to utilities boss By Jeff McDonald5:49 p.m.March 26, 2015 Related: CPUC judge on ...
CPUC does about face on Picker pledge Agency decided not to prove its president paid for dinner, but never said so By Ricky Young 3:04 P.M.MARCH 30, 2015 Juli...
Hotel notes show San Onofre deal hatched early Framework was set in Poland, before public process began By Jeff McDonald 5:29 p.m. April 10, 2015 Updated 9 p.m...
By Judy Peres Tribune staff reporter September 10, 2007 The differences between liberals and conservatives may run deeper than how they feel about welfare refor...
BLACKWATER GUARDS SENTENCED IN DEATHS Men deny guilt in killing of 14 unarmed civilians in Baghdad traffic circle in 2007 By Spencer S. Hsu Victoria St. Martin...
The City of San Diego and San Diego Unified Port District want chemical agricultural giant Monsanto to pay for its role in polluting San Diego's bay and tidelands...
Chipotle Mexican Grill has eliminated genetically modified organisms from all of its ingredients, an unprecedented move for a national U.S. restaurant chain that ...
Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide is toxic, causes insect and weed immunity, and it has been found in 75 percent of air and rain test samples in at least one part of t...
The cancer research arm of the World Health Organization last week announced that glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, is probably carcinogenic to ...
Research scientist Stephanie Seneff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a widely published author on topics ranging from Azlheimer’s Disease to au...
That means none of the ingredients will be genetically modified for its tortillas, rice, chips and salsa, and also in the marinades used to cook its meats. "Chi...
Federal health officials Monday changed the recommended amount of fluoride in drinking water for the first time since 1962, cutting by almost half the maximum amo...
* MAM2015PressRelease1_V4.pdf: March Against Monsanto San Diego Press Release 1 March Against Monsanto San Diego Organizers Consider Event Route with GMO Free C...
Monday April 27, 2015 (SACRAMENTO) – A bill by California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D San Diego) to require new accountability measures when executive ...
Southern California Edison Review of Documents Affirms Independent San Onofre Settlement Process Posted April 29, 2015 ROSEMEAD, Calif., April 29, 2015 — Document...
Nuclear energy: assessing the emissions Kurt Kleiner reports on whether nuclear power deserves its reputation as a low carbon energy source. Estimates of the ...
BALBOA PARK — More than 1,000 people gathered in Balboa Park Saturday to join the worldwide “March Against Monsanto,” the third annual protest against Monsanto, t...
Tue Sep 18, 10:52 AM ET TheNation The news that the Iraqi government has banned Blackwater USA, the notorious mercenary firm, from operating in the country reve...
Why this study now? Séralini designed his 2012 study as a direct followup of a previous study on the same NK603 maize conducted by Monsanto to support its applica...
Scientists May Have Finally Pinpointed What's Killing All The Honeybees Flickr/karthik Nature photographyWhere have all the honeybees gone? A new study seems to ...
CBS NEWSJune 25, 2014, 5:28 AM Study on genetically modified corn, herbicide and tumors reignites controversy This image from a Seralini et al. 2012 study in the...
Evidence of the toxicity of glyphosate is overwhelming Compiled by Adrienne Samuels, Ph.D. June, 2014 Overview: 1) Evidence of the toxicity of glyphosate (a c...
* Original Source: http://www.organic systems.org/journal/81/8106.pdf * 8106.pdf: A long term toxicology study on pigs fed a combined genetically modified (GM)...
A small but growing number of dealerships are obtaining tax breaks or government funds in connection with their facility improvements. Through August, about two d...
By MIKE BAKER #8211; 50 minutes ago RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) #8212; When a former Navy SEAL launched Blackwater USA in North Carolina's swamplands a decade ago, he en...
TIME has obtained an incident report prepared by the U.S. government describing a fire fight Sunday in Baghdad in which at least eight Iraqis were reported killed...
NUCLEAR WASTE: Draft House bill would direct millions to fund interim storage facilities Hannah Northey, E E reporter E E Daily: Friday, June 19, 2015 The Republ...
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, shut down since 2012 and now being decommissioned. Photo courtesy Southern California Edison Rep. Darrell Issa on Tuesd...
Fluoride is found everywhere today, from antibiotics to drinking water, no stick pans to toothpaste, making exposure inevitable. All the more reason why new resea...
By Ken Fireman and Robin Stringer Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) A Blackwater USA spokeswoman said the U.S. security company is blameless of wrongdoing in a shooting inci...
Abstract This paper presents a systematic review of the literature concerning fluoride that was carried out to investigate whether fluoride exposure increases the...
The San Diego consumer group suing to reverse the San Onofre settlement that charges ratepayers billions of dollars for the failed nuclear plant has taken its cas...
Nuclear Waste Deep Storage Plans Approved By Lucas Laursen Posted 17 Nov 2015 17:00 GMT Photo illustration: Posiva OyFinland may be the first to build a long te...
Note: The primary article is available behind a paywall here: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978 1 4612 1156 3_2 This article is one of the few that att...
Iraq declared on Tuesday it will review the operations of all security firms working in the war ravaged country following a deadly shootout involving private US c...
Calif. Judge Retires Amid Controversy Over SoCal Edison Case Share us on: By Carmen Germaine Law360, New York (January 6, 2016, 10:40 PM ET) The California Pu...
"Going naked" is a term the insurance industry uses to describe not having insurance. And when it comes to the worst hazards of nuclear power, America is going na...
Judge calls for review of CPUC emails Ruling: Utilities commission won't get last word on withholding San Onofre emails By Jeff McDonald 12:38 p.m. Jan. 25, 20...
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) How do you feel about paying billions of dollars for the mistake of giant corporations? It happened to taxpayers during the bail out of banks. ...
By Jared Whitlock 11:16a.m. Jan 28, 2016 Federal legislation to relocate spent nuclear fuel from the shuttered San Onofre power plant has the support of the Encin...
By Jeff McDonald 9 a.m. Jan. 30, 2016 When alloy tubing in one of the new steam generators at San Onofre leaked a small amount of radiation four years ago this ...
By KatherineMcIntirePeters kpeters@govexec.com September 12, 2007 Late last month, the Pentagon tapped five major defense contractors to provide wide ranging supp...
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Lodges Lawsuit Over the Aliso Canyon Gas Leak, Citing Violations of State Health and Safety Laws Tuesday, February 2, 2016 Cont...
The state’s top utility regulator has agreed to look into a request from San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob concerning low level radiation emitted by the Su...
* Chart shows Roundup residue in GMO soy but not in organic or conventional soy: * 1 s2.0 S0308814613019201 main.pdf: Compositional differences in soybe...
San Diego County Registrar of Voters Michael Vu at Interfaith Community Services in Escondido. Gary Warth Just weeks after leaving his job after three controversy...
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — A court case has been filed against the Registrar of Voters for not including all votes when he conducted an audit as required by law. It charg...
Election lawsuit on track for October trial Plaintiffs want registrar to count provisional ballots in quality control audit By Joshua Stewart 2:37 p.m. Aug. 23...
There will be a recount. Two days after Democrat Darryl Rouson was determined to be leading fellow Democrat Ed Narain in the closest primary in Florida, Florida S...
101.591 Voting system audit (1) Immediately following the certification of each election, the county canvassing board or the local board responsible for certifyin...
The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. An executive with North Carolina based private security contractor Blackwater USA has joined Republican presidential candidate ...
The Iraqi government said Tuesday it would review the status of private security companies as anger over the alleged involvement of Blackwater USA in a fatal shoo...
Experts: State should audit election results Michael Gerstein , The Detroit News 12:06 a.m. EDT October 17, 2016 file voting machine (Photo: Robin Buckson / Detro...
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 18, 3:13 PM ET Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, House Republican Whip Roy Blunt and 11 other members of Congr...
The PNG image standard is a proposed format for The OpenBallotInitiative. It has many positive features: * CRC error detection on chunk by chunk basis. * Ex...
* Principles and Best Practices for Post Election Audits The following is an html version of the document with some comments. Principles and Best Practices for...
3:05 p.m. September 21, 2007 EL CAJON #8211; A former El Cajon councilman was arraigned Friday on charges of grand theft and financial abuse of his elderly mothe...
Scripps study finds two faults linked Newport Inglewood, Rose Canyon part of single quake system By Gary Robbins The Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Tues...
In what is a rare occurrence in San Diego’s Superior Court, Judge Judith Hayes has changed her mind about tossing a lawsuit aimed at changing plans to bury nuclea...
The threat of a nuclear meltdown is no longer a concern at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station because it’s shut down. A shuttered nuclear plant does presen...
One San Diego County congressman is taking a high profile stand against the prospect of parking tons of spent nuclear fuel on the Southern California beachfront f...
Earlier this month, a superior court judge allowed a lawsuit aimed at reversing a decision by the California Coastal Commission granting a permit to store spent n...
lawsuit by a group that wants to transfer the 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste sitting at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) to a facility in Ar...
A lawsuit asks a state court to order the removal of nuclear waste stored at San Onofre to the Mojave Desert. The complaint was filed before Superior Court Judge ...
Owners of the failed San Onofre nuclear plant agreed Friday to begin negotiations aimed at relocating tons of radioactive waste from the San Diego County coastlin...
By MatthewLee, AP Posted: 2007 09 22 14:04:08 Filed Under: Iraq News WASHINGTON (Sept. 22) Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the priva...
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has come under fire for backing a decision to store deadly waste at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station...
September 26, 2007 6:50am. Lawmaker says Secretary of State interfered with investigation Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (Reuters Photo) By SUE PLEMING A ...
By LizNeely UnionTribune STAFF WRITER September 27, 2007 Some cities in San Diego County begin their government meetings with a prayer, careful not to favor one r...
An election integrity activist has launched a campaign to personally recount votes from last year’s presidential primary in San Diego County. Ray Lutz, the founde...
By JeremyScahill, TheNation So far Blackwater has only received a slap on the wrist after killing innocent civilians. Are the U.S. and Iraqi governments finally r...
September 27, 2007 If ever there were a case history on the importance of voting, even for a panel so obscure most media outlets are unaware of it, it is the situ...
This article, and the cost of energy chart that is included, is one of the most important charts of our lifetime, in my view. Photovoltaic Solar power (PV) is ext...
The city of El Cajon has inked a five year deal with the world's largest concert promoter to manage the East County Performing Arts Center, shuttered since 2009 b...
Three plus years after state regulators permitted Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas Electric to start charging consumers billions of dollars for the ...
California’s last nuclear plant to close after unanimous vote by regulators California’s last nuclear power plant — Diablo Canyon, whose contentious birth helped ...
REGION — El Cajon based nonprofit Citizens’ Oversight Projects has filed a petition with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to change the way spent nuclear fuel fr...
Web exclusive By Kevin Peraino Newsweek Updated: 9:21 a.m. ET Sept. 30, 2007 Sept. 30, 2007 Since the fatal Sept. 16 Blackwater USA shooting in Baghdad #8217;s ...
Southern California Edison has named a panel of experts to advise the company on how to move nuclear waste off the storage site near the beach at San Onofre. The ...
A team of six experts in the nuclear energy sector has been assembled to find a way to move the 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Gen...
The new “Experts Panel” that will probe re homing options for 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste at San Onofre includes Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the U...
The Los Coyotes Indian tribe has issued an eviction notice to the operators of a paramilitary training center on its 25,000 acre reservation in the northeastern p...
By PAUL LEHTO The purpose of elections is freely choosing our public servants by majority rule elections. The essence of America is self government, recognizing ...
The FayettevilleObserver Published on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 By Henry Cuningham, Military editor Blackwater USA, the North Carolina based military contractor u...
Four years after approving a plan that charged ratepayers billions of dollars for the premature closing of the San Onofre nuclear plant, state utility regulators ...
Monday, Oct. 01, 2007 Blackwater Plans a Fierce Defense By Adam Zagorin / Washington "No individual protected by Blackwater has ever been killed or seriously inju...
Judge says county must change vote counting procedures in future elections Ray Lutz, the national coordinator of Citizens’ Oversight, at his El Cajon home. (K.C. ...
(CNN) Erik Prince, the chairman and CEO of Blackwater USA, appeared Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The committee convened ...
A special prosecutor ended a two year drive to convict two county elections workers for rigging a ballot recount during the hotly contested 2004 presidential elec...
Blamed in the deaths of Iraqi civilians, the private security firm has long ties to the White House and prominent Republicans, including Ken Starr. By Ben Van Heu...
LosAngelesTimes Apr 17, 2007 Blackwater USA, a private army that promises "the most comprehensive professional security, peacekeeping and stability operations" in...
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WASHINGTON POST Reporting from RALEIGH, N.C. — State election officials said a political operative for Republican Mark Harris orchestrated a complex scheme to il...
NOTE: This is a good example when ballot images could be very helpful in settling whether the ballots were altered to try to put the contest into a most of drawin...
Unfazed by critics, firm keen on backcountry training area By Anne Krueger SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER October 14, 2007 EAST COUNTY #8211; Blackwater US...
October 14 15, 2007 Blackwater training police in American cities and towns The mercenary firm Blackwater USA is well known for the controversy involving its ...
By JulianBarnes 7:35 PM PDT, October 14, 2007 WASHINGTON #8212; As the Bush administration deals with the fallout from the recent killings of civilians by priva...
* Story Highlights * Husband mourns wife, son a month after they were killed in Baghdad * Man's wife was a doctor; his son hoped to be a surgeon * Witnes...
By RICHARD LARDNER WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; Blackwater USA tried to take at least two Iraqi military aircraft out of Iraq two years ago and refused to give the p...
To View Photos go to: http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=135122 ran=149404 tref=y Seven protesters arrested at Blackwater's headquarters The Virgi...
By Mark Arner UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 2:45 p.m. October 21, 2007 POTRERO #8211; A brush fire that began about 9:30 a.m. Sunday in a rugged, mountainous area ...
The Hill Waxman: Blackwater may have engaged in tax evasion By Klaus Marre October 22, 2007 The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee a...
$1.4 billion program with U.S. faces an uphill battle 10:50 PM CDT on Friday, October 19, 2007 By AlfredoCorchado / The DallasMorningNews WASHINGTON #8211; The U...
The notorious security contractor has plans for a military style complex near the U.S. Mexico border. Critics worry the firm's "mercenary soldiers" could join the...
By MiriamRaftery and LeonThompson The AlpineSun POTRERO #8212; #8220;Mercenaries are dangerous to American democracy, #8221; Congressman Bob Filner (D San ...
Fire chief says state unprepared for deadly Calif. blazes By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, AssociatedPress Writer Tuesday, October 23, 2007 (10 23) 19:33 PDT Los Angeles (...
350,000 Homes Evacuated in Calif. Fires By ALLISON HOFFMAN and GILLIAN FLACCUS #8211; 29 minutes ago SAN DIEGO (AP) #8212; Walls of wind whipped flames consumed...
Illegal border crossers brave flames, get burned Six are hospitalized; more than 200 arrested By Leslie Berestein UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER October 24, 2007 The ...
The GrandRapidsPress Wednesday, May 16, 2007 By ErikPrince Special To The Press In response to a series of articles about me and my company, Blackwater USA, I am ...
by: MiriamRaftery Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:54:43 AM PDT (Welcome Miriam, an award winning journalist to Calitics. More info from on the ground there, following up o...
By MiriamRaftery The AlpineSun #8220;It #8217;s like Armageddon, #8221; Potrero resident Jill Michaels said of the devastating Harris and Witch fires that h...
By ANNE FLAHERTY, AssociatedPress Writer Thu Oct 25, 11:12 AM ET Congress is moving to put all armed contractors operating in combat zones under military control,...
Several Blackwater protestors are in jail for trespassing on Blackwater's property and creating a scene that looked like a make believe car bomb. "Today's demons...
Posted October 25, 2007 We couldn't make this stuff up. Brian Bonfiglio, vice president of Blackwater West, "I see a tactical operation center for East County fir...
October 28, 2007 WTKR Your NewsChannel 3, VA Blackwater Meeting Reveals New Projects Moyock, North Carolina We're learning more about what went on a community mee...
'Working as a team' Blackwater fury shelved as Potrero reacts to Harris fire By Pat Sherman 10/30/2007 Jan Hedlun sat on the front porch of the Potrero General St...
Wall Street Journal Killing by Blackwater Worker Poses Dilemma for U.S. Authorities By YOCHI J. DREAZEN May 14, 2007;PageA4 BAGHDAD, Iraq A Blackwater USA contr...
Some of those interviewed in an FBI inquiry reveal details of the incident and say the agents are focused on whether the security guards were fired upon first. By...
State to Blackwater: Nothing You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Court of Law Posted October 30, 2007 05:53 PM (EST) Apparently there is one set of ri...
IRAQ: When Blackwater Kills, No Questions Asked By Ali al Fadhily* BAGHDAD, Oct 30 (IPS) The recent attacks by Blackwater USA mercenaries in Baghdad are far fro...
POSTED: 1:23 pm PDT October 29, 2007 UPDATED: 12:07 am PDT October 30, 2007 WASHINGTON The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from pro...
by MichaelRoston November 1, 2007 01:22 PM The congressional vice grip is tightening on Blackwater and other contracted defense firms. Next Wednesday, Rep. Jan Sc...
Aram Roston Investigative producer NBC News updated 8:56 a.m. PT, Thurs., Nov. 1, 2007 WASHINGTON Federal agents are investigating allegations that the Blackwat...
HOLLAND Intensely private like his late father Edgar Prince, Erik Prince has moved into the national spotlight because of a best selling book about his elite priv...
Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen Naomi Klein Posted November 1, 2007 (November 19, 2007 issue) I used to worry that the United States was...
By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) U.S. Sen. John Kerry on Thursday asked the Bush administration for more information on how an affiliate of private secur...
By Dana Hedgpeth Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 3, 2007; A01 First it became a brand name in security for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now i...
By Ryan Sabalow (Contact) Friday, November 2, 2007 For the past month, a former Redding resident has become a vocal critic of Blackwater USA, the private security...
By JOHN M. BRODER and JAMES RISEN Published: November 1, 2007 Correction Appended WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 #8212; Blackwater Worldwide, its reputation in tatters and ...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " By Noah Shachtman EmailOctober 31, 2007 1:59:11...
Posted November 4, 2007 04:58 PM (EST) I have argued that in the closing stages of a `fascist shift', events cascade. I am hearing about them, even across the g...
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Friday, November 9, 2007 WASHINGTON #8212; A group of Democratic lawmakers wants all contractors working as ...
Thanks to some high stakes legal maneuvering, Blackwater USA may yet manage to avoid a public examination of the bloody event that catapulted the company to world...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " October 5, 2007, 5:10 pm By Patrick Healy Mark Penn ...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " By Henry Cuningham Military editor Blackwater USA, t...
A too small Army compels use of private contractors in Iraq and elsewhere By George Friedman November 4, 2007 In recent weeks, Blackwater, a private security firm...
By Paul M. Krawzak COPLEY NEWS SERVICE October 6, 2007 MOYOCK, N.C. #8211; The global storm of controversy settling over Blackwater USA is fueling opposition to ...
Blackwater keeps its eye on a tiny East County enclave. By Pat Sherman 10/09/2007 Blackwater USA Vice President Brian Bonfiglio flashed a self satisfied smile, ga...
Posted October 10, 2007 08:12 PM (EST) Most of us accept Tip O'Neill's adage that all politics is local. Yet, most of us want to play on the big stage, push for...
Blackwater Goes to Mexico By JOHN ROSS November 9, 2007 If and when private security contractor Blackwater USA and its heavily armed operatives are forced to pull...
by Tom Griffin America's use of corporate mercenaries in Iraq is under renewed scrutiny in the wake of the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad on Sept. 16. Employee...
06:36 AM CST on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 The State Department's mismanagement of security contractors in Iraq has had deadly consequences, and thankfully the Pen...
Kent Hoover Washington Bureau Chief The Small Business Administration has found itself in the middle of the controversy over Blackwater USA, the private security ...
Tarnishing Iraq mission by covering up for Blackwater November 06, 2007 When it comes to the Bush administration's definition of "sovereignty," "immunity" and "ac...
October 30, 2007 If you want to know if it's a good idea for Blackwater to move into your neighborhood, you can look to Moyok, NC to get a sense of how they are o...
By DAVID STOUT and JOHN M. BRODER Published: October 1, 2007 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 #8212; Guards working in Iraq for Blackwater USA have shot innocent Iraqi civilia...
The only punishment doled out to US security men involved in deadly shootings is a jet home Jeremy Scahill Saturday October 6, 2007 Guardian Erik Prince, the secr...
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 The Center for Constitutional Rights is filing a lawsuit today under the Alien Tort Claims Act on behalf of the families of three of ...
By Noah Shachtman October 26, 2007 3:34:02 PM Blackwater guns for hire famously took over security on some New Orleans streets after Hurricane Katrina. Now, ...
BERN, Switzerland (AP) #8212; Authorities are investigating whether a Swiss national who worked for the U.S. security firm Blackwater in Iraq broke a law barring...
By Mark Sauer and Janine Zúñiga STAFF WRITERS November 1, 2007 A tent city is set to spring from the ashes near Barrett Junction as wildfire weary residents in t...
Fire destroyed 103 Dulzura buildings By Janine Zúñiga STAFF WRITER November 6, 2007 It took a few days to get it up and running, but a tent city complete with cot...
A bill to ban Blackwater ... and save democracy? By Jim Tankersley A team of Democratic lawmakers led by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D Ill.) introduced a bill this after...
Blackwater's relief effort wins praise of project foe By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER October 30, 2007 As Potrero planning group member Jan Hedlun trie...
by: Miriam Raftery Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:54:43 AM PDT (Welcome Miriam, an award winning journalist to Calitics. More info from on the ground there, following up...
By ADAM ZAGORIN/WASHINGTON Wednesday, November 7 A little noticed court case in Florida threatens to undermine the arrangement under which some 150,000 private co...
By Paul M. Krawzak COPLEY NEWS SERVICE 3:27 p.m. November 7, 2007 WASHINGTON #8211; Rep. Bob Filner, D Calif. (San Diego), is backing legislation to replace priv...
Tue Nov 6, 2007 11:38am EST By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) Private security companies operate without supervision or accountability in war zones, includi...
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 In a Democracy Now! interview, Rep. Jan Schakowsky calls for the withdrawal of all guards with the firms Blackwater, DynCorp and Trip...
Jeremy Scahill posted November 8, 2007 (November 26, 2007 issue) Jan Schakowsky is one of the few members of Congress who have made confronting the radically priv...
(SUMMARY) "They were on a joy ride," she said of the pilots. "They were cowboying." "To know, as a mother, he sat out and froze to death bleeding internally is th...
Joseph Neff Friday, November 9, 2007 The president and CEO of Dyncorp did some corporate trash talking in a recent teleconference with investors and analysts. In ...
By Liz Neely UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER November 10, 2007 EAST COUNTY #8211; Hundreds of people are picking up supplies at a tent city in Barrett Junction set up...
Sarah E. Mendelson Monday, November 12, 2007 Accounts of Blackwater personnel allegedly gunning down civilians in Iraq have thrust contractor accountability befor...
Witnesses Call Shooting From Justice Ministry Unprovoked, But State Dept. Cleared Its Security Team After a Brief Probe By Steve Fainaru Washington Post Foreign S...
By Karyn Chenoweth Nov 8, 2007, 14:50 GMT The mother of a Blackwater guard who was mutilated and killed by a mob in Iraq is demanding that the company answer her ...
The transformation of Blackwater USA from a private security firm into the newest branch of the U.S. military has for years been a source of friction and suspicio...
November 8, 2007 11:00 AM By Michael Roston A tug of war has broken out between Congress and the Bush administration over legislation that would put private secur...
David Edwards Published: Saturday November 10, 2007 An exclusive CBS report says that all private security firms in Iraq have been notified that "immunity from Ir...
November 9, 2007 01:26 PM By Michael Rosten A group of House members and one Senator came together on Tuesday to introduce the "Stop Outsourcing Security Act," a ...
Monday, November 12, 2007 By NancyConroy The United States and Mexico recently unveiled a new US$1.4 billion anti drug aid package that aims to help Mexico fi...
Can Firm Get New Pentagon Work After Iraq Incident? By AUGUST COLE November 13, 2007; Page A6 A Defense Department contract involving antidrug training missions m...
JURIST Guest Columnist Byron L. Warnken of the University of Baltimore School of Law says that the US State Department's reported grant of "immunity" to Blackwate...
By ELISE CASTELLI November 12, 2007 Blackwater USA got $600 million in federal contracts last year and more than $1 billion since 2001. But that doesn #8217;t dis...
By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 14, 2007; 1:33 PM The FBI has concluded that the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater sec...
By DAVID JOHNSTON and JOHN M. BRODER Published: November 14, 2007 WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 #8212; Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwat...
Regarding El Cajon City Council's advocation of religion in government: The United States Constitution with its Bill of Rights outlines the rights and protection...
Washington Dispatch: Accused of blocking an investigation into Blackwater, State Department IG Howard Krongard told Congress that his brother Buzzy has no ties to...
The Associated Press Published: November 16, 2007 WASHINGTON: The brother of the embattled State Department Inspector General quit as an adviser to Blackwater Wor...
State Department IG Howard "Cookie" Krongard's testimony before Waxman's committee earlier this week is becoming the gift that keeps on giving. At the hearing, Kr...
Prosecuting private security contractors for shooting Iraqi civilians might be impossible. By Jeremy Scahill November 15, 2007 Federal agents investigating the Se...
November 15, 2007 01:30 AM While hundreds of thousands of citizens were fleeing Southern California's wildfires in October, Blackwater USA was charging back in. W...
After a deadly crash, one Washington family tries to bring the notorious military contractor to account. By Rick Anderson November 14, 2007 Two days after Thanksg...
Editorial Published: November 16, 2007 A report in The Times this week says that the F.B.I. is reaching the same horrifying conclusion as the Iraqi authorities: t...
By AUGUST COLE November 16, 2007 6:23 p.m. WASHINGTON #8212;Blackwater Worldwide announced that Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard has resigned from the company's advisory b...
article posted November 15, 2007 (web only) Jeremy Scahill Every day, new revelations emerge in the mounting scandal rocking the Bush Administration and the merce...
Reuters Saturday, November 17, 2007; 7:35 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) The lawyer for State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard asked on Saturday that he no...
BAGHDAD (AFP) #8212; Iraqi soldiers detained a group of private security guards after they opened fire in central Baghdad on Monday wounding a woman and rekindli...
Published Monday, November 19, 2007 The indecision of prosecutors over whether to bring charges against hired American security guards in the September shooting o...
By Larry Chin Online Journal Associate Editor Nov 19, 2007, 01:18 New bombshell testimony before Congress has revealed that Alvin B. "Buzzy" Krongard, the former ...
By DAVID JOHNSTON and JOHN M. BRODER Published: November 20, 2007 WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 #8212; Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to some of the ...
By RICHARD LARDNER #8211; November 17, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; The brother of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard quit as an advise...
State Dept. Inspector General Must Appear With His Blackwater Board Member Brother By MATT JAFFE Nov. 16, 2007 Days after testifying that he had only just learned...
By SCOTT SHANE Published: November 17, 2007 BALTIMORE, Nov. 16 #8212; They were smart, scrappy brothers who rose from modest circumstances in Baltimore to become...
WASHINGTON (CNN) The FBI has not yet interviewed five "key" members of a Blackwater security team involved in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis, a Blackwater spo...
The Turret Gunner Says He Feared For His Life As He Opened Fire By BRIAN ROSS Nov. 14, 2007 A 29 year old U.S. Army veteran hired by Blackwater last year is at t...
November 15, 2007 Brian Ross Reports: The State Department plans to equip its motorcade security details in Iraq with lasers to "dazzle" suspect motorists and hel...
Floyd J. McKay / Guest columnist BLACKWATER, the secretive private army now emerging into public view, is a perfect hinge linking two key elements of the Republic...
Rick Jacobs October 24, 2007 @ 10:39 AM As I write this, massive fires are raging across Southern California. While it is quiet and normal at my house in Los Ange...
The Guardian UK Rural community opposes expansion by company at centre of Iraq allegations Dan Glaister in Potrero, California Friday November 30, 2007 Randel Par...
November 23, 2007 By Jon W. Glass, The Virginian Pilot ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. For nearly two years, Blackwater has been developing an airship to tap a growing gove...
By RICHARD LARDNER #8211; November 26, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; The State Department's acerbic top auditor wasn't happy when Justice Department officials tol...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire USNewswire/ The estates of two more Iraqis killed when Blackwater USA personnel allegedly opened fire on civilians in Nisoor Squ...
WASHINGTON (CNN) A quarter of Blackwater security guards in Iraq use steroids and other "judgment altering substances," according to a lawsuit filed by the fami...
Published on November 21, 2007 By Don Bauder For months, everything went wrong for Blackwater Worldwide (formerly Blackwater USA), the mercenary firm that wants t...
Surcharge sparks firestorm Governor's fee faulted; without it, he will warn, Cal Fire faces cutbacks By Michael Gardner COPLEY NEWS SERVICE January 10, 2008 K.C. ...
By VOA News 20 November 2007 The Iraqi government has warned it will deal firmly with private security companies that break the law. Iraqi military spokesman Brig...
A community's call on an international issue By Barbara Chamberlain December 7, 2007 When an elected body stops listening to the people who elected them #8211; i...
POTRERO, Calif. Ron Spinneit dragged the toe of his shoe in a straight line through the chalky dust, summing up the current state of affairs in this arid desert v...
NPR.org, December 14, 2007 · The Defense Authorization Bill passed by Congress contains provisions that tighten government oversight of private security contracto...
Hero of Cedar Fire Running for Supervisor By E.A. Barrera Burned in the Cedar Fire, Reyes wants to help the people who were good to him. Photo By E.A. Barrera Ru...
Blackwater Grand Jury Resumes By MATT APUZZO #8211; 3 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; Two unidentified witnesses appeared Thursday before a federal grand jury...
Third world warriors fight U.S. wars for dollars a day Honduran soldier was among thousands who stood guard over Baghdad embassy, but couldn't legally enter Uni...
08:24 AM EST on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 By 13News Seven anti war activists arrested during a protest outside Blackwater USA are due in court Wednesday. The ac...
Associated Press December 4, 2007 6:45 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) An unidentified witness returned today to a federal grand jury as prosecutors continued their inv...
By ERIC SCHMITT and PAUL von ZIELBAUER WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 #8212; Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top United States commander in Iraq, and Ryan C. Crocker, the Americ...
By Jeremy Scahill from the December 24, 2007 issue Gunning down seventeen Iraqi civilians in an incident the military has labeled "criminal." Multiple Congressi...
U.S. Security Contractors Open Fire in BaghdadBlackwater Employees Were Involved in Two Shooting Incidents in Past Week By Steve Fainaru and Saad al IzziWashingto...
By Christian Berthelsen, Los Angeles Times December 9, 2007 BAGHDAD The security contractor settled into the back of the armored Mercedes parked under the C...
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney cited Cofer Black, the former head of Counterterrorism at the CIA, as his advisor on issues involving prisoner interro...
KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says By BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER JUSTIN ROOD Dec. 10, 2007 #8212; A Houston, Tex...
6:33 a.m. December 11, 2007 EAST COUNTY: More than half of Potrero's 509 voters have turned in ballots for a mail election to recall five members of the local pla...
POTRERO, Calif. The final votes have been cast in a recall election stemming from an East County controversy. Five members of the Potrero community planning gro...
CA Author: Courage Campaign Published on Dec 12, 2007, 10:55 In a stunning victory that shocked even the most optimistic observers, five members of an elected bod...
By Nancy Conroy In San Diego County, California, a firestorm has erupted over plans to build a Blackwater mercenary training camp in the hills behind Potrero, a r...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER December 13, 2007 Strictly speaking, a vote removing five members of the Potrero planning group for their support of a ...
WASHINGTON After years of high stakes legal wrangling, a lawsuit stemming from the gruesome deaths of four U.S. contractors in Iraq is moving behind closed doors ...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 1:12 a.m. December 12, 2007 EAST COUNTY #8211; Five members of the Potrero planning group were voted off the panel Tue...
UNION TRIBUNE EDITORIAL Potrero's anti Blackwater vote sends a message December 13, 2007 The East County community of Potrero has spoken emphatically that it doe...
POSTED: 10:00 pm PST December 10, 2007 UPDATED: 10:18 pm PST December 10, 2007 POTRERO, Calif. Residents in the town of Potrero will vote Tuesday on whether to ...
December 14, 2007 Five new members of the Potrero planning group were sworn into office last night following their election Tuesday in a vote propelled by opposit...
Posted December 12, 2007 05:14 AM (EST) A tiny town in the pristine high wilderness of eastern San Diego County made history tonight with the nation's first eve...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is filing another lawsuit today against the private military firm Blackwater #8212;this time for a shooting in Baghdad on Sep...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) The U.S. embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards this time of the New York Tim...
The Spanish word dulzura means sweetness. And public artist Robin Brailsford found the sweet life when she moved to the hamlet of Dulzura, 30 miles east of San Di...
City seeks state law easing annexation By LizNeely UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER February 7, 2008 EL CAJON #8211; The feud between El Cajon and the county over a Ho...
By Allison Hoffman Associated Press Writer / December 12, 2007 SAN DIEGO #8212;Government security contractor Blackwater Worldwide reaffirmed plans Wednesday to b...
Web page contains interactive map that shows relationships to Blackwater Worldwide. BLACKWATER WORLDWIDE People related to Blackwater Worldwide: Cofer Black vi...
As I participate in the voiceofsandiego.org blog, it's important to note that as the vice president for Blackwater West my comments will be based on our land use ...
POSTED ON JANUARY 9, 2008: Defendants to appeal conviction By Patrick O'Neill Judge Edgar Barnes had had enough. At a Dec. 5 trial, Beth Brockman of Durham told ...
AT least three American private security companies have reportedly recruited about 300 Filipino #8220;private security operators #8221; or #8220;independent con...
January 10, 2008 By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON #8212; The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Ira...
And in North Carolina, seven activists are in court today to appeal their conviction for protesting outside the headquarters of the private military company Black...
County has prohibited such training on site By Anne Krueger STAFF WRITER January 26, 2008 ALPINE #8211; A proposed shooting range for the military and law enforc...
Blackwater has filed a $30 million malpractice suit against the high powered team of lawyers the firm hired to defend against a wrongful death lawsuit filed by th...
By Steve Kowit, Potrero Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008 As a long time resident of Potrero, I can only shake my head at Brian Bonfiglio's notion that outside agitators cl...
Small Mountain Town Ousts Officials Who Backed Blackwater Training Camp (AP) Residents of a mountain village in California who oppose plans by security contractor...
Last week in Currituck County, N.C., Superior Court Judge Russell Duke presided over the final step in securing the first criminal conviction stemming from the de...
By LARA JAKES JORDAN and MATT APUZZO, AP Posted: 2008 01 14 06:26:53 Filed Under: World News WASHINGTON (Jan. 14) _ Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted it...
Marshall Adame is a Democrat running for Congress in North Carolina's 3rd District, a jurisdiction along the Tar Heel state's low lying eastern coast that is home...
According to reports, Blackwater Worldwide released riot control gas on U.S. troops in 2005 WASHINGTON, D.C. #8211; U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D IL) on Friday se...
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2008 01 28 13:13. Nonviolent Resistance Steve Baggarly is one of the Blackwater Seven recently sentenced in North Carolina for s...
Debate on the right to use mercenaries to fill roles in US Military Affirmative argument: YES by Chadwick De Las Casas The usage of private military forces is not...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER January 31, 2008 ALPINE #8211; County officials say they will issue citations to an Alpine area man if he continues to...
Posted by Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet at 9:33 AM on February 2, 2008. If there's one thing that can be said about Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush administration's fav...
On January 16, the New York Times reported that Justice Department officials have informed Congress of #8220;serious legal difficulties #8221; in prosecuting Bla...
Posted: 02/04/2008 Regnery Publishing today announced that it has signed a contract with Erik Prince, Chairman and CEO of Blackwater Worldwide. Prince #8217;s boo...
Howard Krongard worked his last day at the State Department recently, having learned a hard lesson in the ways of modern Congressional "oversight." To wit, if you...
By Karthik Reddy February 04, 2008 The Bush administration has responded to America #8217;s new military commitments by relying heavily on mercenaries. These ...
The father of a 9 year old Iraqi boy who says his son was killed by Blackwater security guards tells ABCNews.com the company has offered to build a monument and m...
Whether this mattered to him or not, Judge Duke's words were interesting, given the religious fanaticism and avowed patriotism of Blackwater's owner, Erik Prince....
WASHINGTON (AFP) #8212; The status and role of private security firms like Blackwater in Iraq is central to upcoming talks between Washington and Baghdad, Iraqi ...
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly ...
Posted February 8, 2008 05:54 PM (EST) Matt Rothschild's astonishing expose of the FBI's decision to "deputize" 23,000 representatives of private industry refle...
Contractors making mistakes are sometimes paid for correcting their own errors Fri, Feb 8, 2008 (2 a.m.) A new federal audit says the military has become so depen...
By: Becca Denison, staff writer Posted: 2/12/08 Growing up in Bettie, N.C., Nelson Paul was always fascinated with wind. He loved to surf and sail, but mostly he ...
Most inhabitants of idyllic Potrero like the place just the way it is. Thanks anyway, Blackwater. By Pat Sherman 02/12/2008 Though a controversial military contra...
BY WENDELL MINNICK TAIPEI #8212; U.S. based Blackwater is training members of the Taiwanese National Security Bureau #8217;s (NSB #8217;s) special protection ser...
By Josh Richman Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 4:31 pm in Assembly, Fabian Nunez, General, Guy Houston. Assembly Republicans voted down a bill today which would ...
By Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake Posted on March 1, 2008 One of the reasons we haven't endorsed during the presidential primary, as we've said often times, is because...
BARCO, N.C. It started as a simple question during an online chat with Marshall Adame, a Democrat and retired Marine running for Congress in North Carolina's 3rd ...
Jeremy Scahill reports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not #8220;rule out #8221; using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide i...
by JEREMY SCAHILL from the March 17, 2008 issue Update from Jeremy Scahill: A day after this story went live on TheNation.com, Senator Hillary Clinton, whose st...
By Noah Shachtman EmailFebruary 29, 2008 10:42:00 AM Just as Blackwater had finally fallen from the headlines and the boys in Moyock thought their State Departm...
Congress took yet another look yesterday at one of the most compelling themes of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: the use of Blackwater and other private securit...
WASHINGTON (AP) Private security firm Blackwater USA paid $290,000 to C M Capitolink last year to lobby the federal government. The company paid C M $150,000 in...
By Sharon Weinberger February 26, 2008 10:00:00 AM Blackwater could have saved slain Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto. In fact, Bhutto wanted to be saved by ...
Blackwater Corners the Market February 21, 2008: Blackwater Worldwide, one of the worlds largest private security firms, has provided training for the Taiwanese p...
02/22/2008 @ 9:54 am Filed by Michael Roston As John McCain's reputation as a family man and a politician with a clean ethical record came under attack on Thursda...
Need a private label armored vehicle? A detachment of Chilean infantrymen? A special forces "engagement team"? Erik Prince's expanding global private army is at y...
Chris Hedges is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and won a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Armed units from the private sec...
Winning the prestigious George Polk award is bittersweet vindication for investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. His book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's M...
Weapons manufacturer Heckler Koch said it would end its relationship with Blackwater after German media reported that the controversial US run military firm was...
Security training camp won't be built in Potrero By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER March 8, 2008 Blackwater Worldwide dropped its plans yesterday to buil...
By ALLISON HOFFMAN, Associated Press Writer Friday, March 7, 2008 (03 07) 16:18 PST SAN DIEGO, (AP) Military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide has pulled...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 2:33 p.m. March 7, 2008 Blackwater Worldwide officials have announced they are pulling their application to build a tra...
Is there an ethics that justifies Blackwater? The state, Max Weber wrote in his classic essay "Politics as a Vocation," "is a human community that (successfully) ...
By Robert Brodsky rbrodsky #64;govexec.com March 3, 2008 Sen. Hillary Clinton has signed on as the first co sponsor of a bill that would ban the use of all Stat...
By SAMEER N. YACOUB #8211; Feb 29, 2008 BAGHDAD (AP) #8212; The Justice Department appears to be gathering testimony from Iraqi witnesses for a possible trial o...
Brinkmanship continues as the Jamul Indian Village has adopted a stance of #8220;we're going to build our casino and who is going to stop us? #8221; Not the sher...
By Massimo Calabresi/Washington The days of legal immunity for civilian contractors in Iraq may be numbered, as Washington and Baghdad prepare to renegotiate a lo...
By ANNE FLAHERTY #8211; Mar 10, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; A senior House Democrat has called for a wide ranging federal investigation into Blackwater Worldwid...
Waxman: Firm also violates labor rules By Karen DeYoung, Washington Post March 11, 2008 WASHINGTON House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman expanded ...
10:00 PM PST on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 By JULISSA McKINNON` The Press Enterprise HOMELAND After addressing noise, traffic and several safety concerns about ...
By Sarah Nagem, Staff Reporter Bentonville Township #65533; Some residents of this quiet community aren't thrilled about a military training group setting its si...
Wednesday, March 12 2008 @ 10:58 AM PDT Contributed by: Anarcentric After addressing noise, traffic and several safety concerns about his proposal to build a stat...
By Anne KruegerM UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER March 13, 2008 For more than a year, Blackwater Worldwide's proposal for a military and law enforcement training camp ...
By Miriam Raftery The Alpine Sun POTRERO #8212; Blackwater has backed out of its plan to build a private military and law enforcement training camp on an 82...
Since U.S. forces began bombarding Iraq in 2003, the impact of the war has been felt far beyond the battlefields. Monday, March 17, 2008 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIO...
by JEREMY SCAHILL posted online on March 18, 2008 Hillary Clinton has just become the most significant US political figure to come out in favor of banning Black...
David Robertson, Business Correspondent Blackwater Worldwide, the private security company whose guards are accused of shooting dead 17 Iraqi civilians last year,...
David Robertson ArmorGroup, the private security company, became another casualty of the war in Iraq as it succumbed yesterday to a £43 million bid from rival G4S...
Two Iraqi Families of Victims Killed by Blackwater Guards Tell ABC News They've Refused Compensation From the Company By AADEL FAIQ March 20, 2008 #8212; At least...
Wednesday March 19 2008 FOUR young men from the Blackwater area have been sent forward for trial in the Circuit Court on charges of assault causing harm and false...
March 20, 2008 POTRERO: Everyone is welcome at a Celebrate Potrero Party from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at 23975 Yerba Santa Road. The purpose of the gathering is heal...
The Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) #8212; The founder of private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide plans to speak to a meeting of the Grand ...
Published: March 24, 2008 As the nonpareil war profiteer in Iraq, Blackwater Worldwide keeps outdoing its own mercenary record. Ranking Blackwater executives have...
Associated Press March 24, 2008 7:23 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) It's a big question in Washington; Should private contract workers have access to sensitive informa...
by: Eartha Jane Melzer Wednesday (03/12) at 08:28 AM Company insiders say job starved Michigan was poised to make a bad investment When Sovereign Deed LLC came to...
Neither Clinton nor Obama has a real plan to end the occupation of Iraq, but they could be forced to change position By Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill The Guardi...
By Kevin Martinez 26 March 2008 On March 7, private contractor Blackwater Worldwide announced it was abandoning plans to construct a military and police training ...
By ADAM LIPTAK Securing the nation #8217;s borders is so important, Congress says, that Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, must have the power to ...
Iraq disapproves Blackwater contract renewal Tuesday, April 08, 2008 09:09 GMT US State Department has attributed the decision of renewing Blackwater private se...
By JHarryJones UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 6:14 p.m. April 11, 2008 The board members of the county's long range planning group overwhelmingly endorsed the Sunrise...
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, #8220;The most important office in a democracy is that of the citizen. #8221; But typical citizens find overseein...
by DeanCalbreath UNION TRIBUNE April 13, 2008 The billboard on the freeway shows a pair of stark alternatives: a dark, grimy, smoke belching power plant versus a ...
By DeanCalbreath STAFF WRITER, San Diego Union Tribune January 4, 2008 The Sunrise Powerlink project #8211; San Diego Gas Electric's disputed plan to build a $...
Posted date: 4/17/2008 NTR, an Ireland based company that specializes in renewable energy and waste management, plans to invest $100 million in Phoenix based Stir...
By JHarryJones UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 9, 2008 The chance that SDG E's proposed Sunrise Powerlink project might pose a fire risk in the backcountry was t...
By JHarryJones UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER March 27, 2008 A lingering question in the Sunrise Powerlink controversy is what influence and legal powers, if any, the...
By AnneKrueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 1:41 p.m. April 22, 2008 Blackwater Worldwide is planning to open an indoor training facility in Otay Mesa after abandon...
Apr 22, 2008 AnaTintocalis Blackwater USA has resurrected plans to open a military training center in San Diego County. The private security contractor abandoned ...
EL CAJON #8211; Not that long ago, the East County Performing Arts Center was considered one of the best things #8211; if not the only thing #8211; downtown El...
Reported by Stew Magnuson SAN ANTONIO, Texas #8212; Tunnels underneath the southwest border are expected to proliferate as improved fencing makes it harder for s...
Designers of the Project 28 pilot program, which was envisioned as a virtual fence along the Southwest border, failed to ask users what they wanted in the system,...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 23, 2008 Although Blackwater Worldwide has given up its plans to build a training center in East County, the gove...
POSTED: 4:00 pm PDT April 22, 2008 UPDATED: 4:58 pm PDT April 22, 2008 SAN DIEGO Military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide is not giving up on a trainin...
Blackwater permit faces challenge Public not informed, San Diego officials say By Tanya Mannes SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 26, 2008 OTAY MESA #821...
By Liz Neely STAFF WRITER August 14, 2007 EL CAJON #8211; The East County Performing Arts Center has been temporarily shuttered after chunks of plaster fell from...
Subcontractor conducted training By AnneKrueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 29, 2008 SAN DIEGO #8211; The owner of a shooting range who trained military per...
How city permits obtained at issue By TanyaMannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER May 6, 2008 San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders wants to know whether Blackwater Worldwide ...
Four members of state agency attend By JHarryJones UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER May 13, 2008 * Kristy Mundt at PUC meeting on Sunrise Powerlink: PEGGY PEATT...
By TanyaMannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER May 15, 2008 OTAY MESA #8211; An activist paid $100 this week to file a formal appeal of Blackwater Worldwide's permits...
Backup border fence would be built on dirt By LeslieBerestein UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER May 16, 2008 Environmentalists hoping to stop the filling of a steep cany...
Regarding your Q A with Paul Russell and the East County Performing Arts Center (East County Opinion, June 29): I couldn't let this slide by without a reality che...
Will These Keep the Lights On? By Joe Deegan Published Wednesday, May 28, 2008 The Sunrise Powerlink gleamed for the first time in Sempra Energy #8217;s eye on...
By Ray Huard UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 6:24 p.m. May 29, 2008 SAN DIEGO #8211; Blackwater Worldwide failed to apply for the proper permits to run a training pro...
UNION TRIBUNE 6:35 p.m. May 30, 2008 SAN DIEGO #8211; A federal judge said Friday she won't decide until Tuesday whether to order San Diego City officials to iss...
Sanders to obey Blackwater ruling By Tanya Mannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER June 5, 2008 OTAY MESA #8211; A federal judge ruled yesterday that Blackwater Worldw...
By Tanya Mannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 3:44 p.m. June 11, 2008 OTAY MESA #8211; About 70 people, many wearing green #8220;Stop Blackwater #8221; T shirts, p...
By TanyaMannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER June 14, 2008 OTAY MESA #8211; Blackwater Worldwide filed documents yesterday in federal court saying it should be allo...
It should not be surprising to anyone who attended the Nov. 8 El Cajon City Council meeting that El Cajon's Arts and Culture Commission was dissolved. The city mu...
UNION TRIBUNE June 25, 2008 OTAY MESA: Blackwater Worldwide, which recently obtained a federal court order allowing it to operate a military training facility, sa...
Rifles given to sheriff in deal that skirts law The private military company Blackwater has found an unusual way to skirt federal laws that prohibit private parti...
Blackwater shielded from council review By TanyaMannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER June 18, 2008 OTAY MESA #8211; A federal judge ruled yesterday that Blackwater ...
No matter who wins the White House, the security firm is shooting for lucrative work. By JeremyScahill June 16, 2008 From California to Iraq, business has never b...
Vote delay to notify customers overruled By AnneKrueger, STAFF WRITER May 24, 2006 SANTEE #8211; The board of the Padre Dam Municipal Water District voted yester...
Assemblyman Joel Anderson Wednesday morning threw his support behind the 52nd Congressional District campaign of Duncan D. Hunter. At a press conference at a La M...
Term limits claim incumbent La Suer By MicheleClock STAFF WRITER May 12, 2006 A bilingual charter school principal. A well known city councilman. A businessman wh...
Why would the National Right to Life PAC endorse a long term supporter of abortion like Brian Bilbray? In fact, the National Right to Life PAC is the political a...
MANAMA, BAHRAIN #8212; Common images of the U.S. Coast Guard's duties include boat rescues on the Great Lakes, pursuits of smugglers in the Caribbean and patrols...
El Cajon Assemblyman Joel Anderson is enjoying international attention these days, thanks to the governor's decision to sign his bill forcing the state's mammoth ...
Helping Hitler Buy Guns Posted by: Mighty Thor 04/05/2007 5:12 PM Penned by DuaneDichiara at the Flashreport regarding the Union Tribune and Assemblyman Joel An...
Governor to sign bill by La Mesa lawmaker By Bill Ainsworth STAFF WRITER September 25, 2007 SACRAMENTO #8211; While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was ma...
Home Depot is pulling all the strings in El Cajon, California. On June 6, 2006, Sprawl Busters reported the controversial death of a Home Depot project in El Cajo...
LITTLE NOTES December 2005 JOEL ANDERSON, candidate for the 77th Assembly District, was one of East County's biggest campaigners for Proposition 73. A parishione...
Ever want to call for an election recount? Well, the Humboldt County Elections Office might soon give you the chance to do just that, and more. The Humboldt Tran...
Company is sister to N.C. based Blackwater JosephNeff and Jay rice, Staff Writers RALEIGH To defend itself against a lawsuit by the widows of three American sol...
By Daniel J. Callahan and Marc P. Miles, AlterNet Posted on June 8, 2007, Printed on June 8, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/53460/ The following article is by...
The city of San Diego filed an appeal Thursday of a federal court ruling last month that allowed Blackwater Worldwide to operate a military training facility in O...
Agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have confiscated nearly two dozen automatic rifles from Blackwater Worldwide, the private s...
RALEIGH BlackwaterWorldwide, the North Carolina company that is famous and in some quarters infamous for its security work in Iraq, has been misunderstood and...
SAN DIEGO BlackwaterWorldwide, the for profit private army best known for its deadly role in Iraq, obtained a temporary restraining order in federal court on June...
By Adam Howard Posted on June 10, 2007, Printed on June 12, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/bloggers//53723/ Blackwater USA, the nefarious sounding and behaving cont...
COEUR D'ALENE The Idaho Post Academy has signed a letter of intent to work with BlackwaterWorldwide if the company decides to build in the region, which is draw...
Two videos of a torture training session with the police force of León, Guanajuato shocked the Mexican public last week and raised serious questions about human r...
by Sandra Svoboda Training Iraqi soldiers in SWAT procedures didn't seem like mercenary work to Greg, who took a yearlong leave of absence from a Midwestern polic...
Findings on wildfires implicate Cox lines, too By JHarryJones and TonyManolatos STAFF WRITERSJuly 10, 2008A state report released last night says arcing San Diego...
By DAVE DOWNEY Staff Writer Lawsuits and possible misdemeanor criminal charges confront San Diego Gas Electric Co. now that state officials have concluded its...
Utility's new policy requires inspectionsBy J. Harry Jones STAFF WRITERJuly 11, 2008Exactly 3½ hours before an arcing power line ignited the Witch Creek fire earl...
By JOHN ROSS When presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain brought his road show to Mexico City on the eve of U.S. Independence Day, he had one m...
Regarding Q A with Blackwater's Erik Prince and Brian Bonfiglio (Dialog, July 27): I wonder how much of what these two Blackwater executives say can be believed...
The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sell out on the Iraq war. While the wrangling over the $124 billion Iraq supplemental s...
July 27, 2008 Erik Prince, founder and CEO of Blackwater USA, and Brian Bonfiglio, a Blackwater vice president in San Diego, recently met with the Union Tribune's...
When a California medical marijuana dispensary, Organica Collective, was raided last Thursday by agents of the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency and local police, t...
Anti illegal immigration group struggling as chapters disband, donations slow By Kerry Lester Daily Herald StaffPublished: 5/19/2008 12:06 AMOne of the most vis...
Agents thought he paid man to cross By Leslie Berestein STAFF WRITER August 7, 2008 SOUTH COUNTY A local civil rights advocate who often files compliants on b...
MARCELA SANCHEZ THE WASHINGTON POST Changing the immigration debate August 9, 2008 A new effort to clear this country of illegal immigrants comes courtesy ...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 9:17 p.m. July 30, 2008 LA MESA Board members of the public district that oversees Sharp Grossmont Hospital said Wedn...
By Angelica Martinez UNION TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM 10:45 a.m. August 4, 2008 LA MESA Immediate changes in communication procedures are taking place at Sharp ...
By Keith Darcé UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 9, 2008 Sharp HealthCare executives have spent the past two weeks trying to reassure the public that their hospit...
District board heard of issues in media By Angelica Martinez and Cheryl Clark UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS August 5, 2008 LA MESA The Grossmont Healthcare Distri...
POTRERO, CALIF. #8212; With its isolation and rustic ambience, this sparsely populated hamlet in eastern San Diego County offers the privacy and quiet its reside...
The boulder strewn hillsides of Homeland that he roamed as a child remind John Choate of the terrain in Afghanistan, where the former Navy SEAL served after the S...
POLITICS US: One Fifth of Iraq Funding Paid to ContractorsBy William FisherNEW YORK, Aug 14 (IPS) As a new report forecasts that the 190,000 private contractors...
Decision follows lapses at hospital By Anne Krueger STAFF WRITER August 16, 2008 LA MESA Officials for the public district that oversees Sharp Grossmont ado...
WASHINGTON Marine families who lived at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina over three decades drank water contaminated with toxins as much as 40 times over today's sa...
Blackwater guards face prosecution over killing of 17 Iraqi civilians Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 By James Bone Six Blackwater Worldwide security guards have ...
Sempra's gas venture gathering steam at Baja site Plant expected to boost fuel supplies by 2008 By Diane Lindquist STAFF WRITER October 24, 2005 COSTA AZUL ...
21st March 2008 By Staff Writer San Diego based natural gas firm Sempra Energy's Costa Azul liquefied natural gas terminal on the west coast of Mexico will comm...
New Evidence That Blackwater Guards Took No Fire The view on Friday of Nisour Square in Baghdad from the roof at the southwest corner. On Sept. 16, Blackwater ve...
Pat Nixon at the U.S. Mexico Border New America Media, Commentary, Joseph Nevins, Posted: Aug 22, 2008 Editor s Note: Nearly 40 years ago this month, First Lady ...
Some votes miscounted in primary, officials say By Luis Monteagudo Jr. and Helen Gao UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 8, 2004 County officials said yesterday t...
Lawsuit alleges cover up of death By Cheryl Clark UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 28, 2008 LA MESA Caregivers at Sharp Grossmont Hospital incorrectly adjusted...
Blackwater deal divided community By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 28, 2008 Blackwater Worldwide has left Potrero behind, but the controversy eng...
EAST COUNTY PERSPECTIVE Longtime insider believes in Sharp Grossmont Hospital August 24, 2008 By Bob Yarris Reading and hearing the recent media attention around...
Raising sales taxes hurts all of us By Joel Anderson August 29, 2008 As a father of three, I know how expensive it can be to get kids ready to go back to schoo...
Videos created by David Barton, Vice Chair of the Texas Republican Party and a close colleague of disgraced former House Leader Tom DeLay, have been removed from ...
REVIEW OUTLOOK September 6, 2008; Page A10 Unfunded public employee pensions are a crisis waiting to erupt across the country, so a political brawl in San Die...
By Chris Moran STAFF WRITER September 12, 2008 EAST COUNTY County school board candidate Rose Urdahl acknowledged she doesn't have the credentials for two jobs...
By Ray Huard UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER September 11, 2008 Former El Cajon City Councilman Charles Emmet Santos has pleaded guilty to stealing money from his ail...
Published on HamptonRoads.com A man who held a high profile job training Blackwater security contractors for duty in Iraq now sits in a Canadian jail awaiting tri...
Citizens will soon have access to a key tool to track federal spending President Bush signs S. 2590 President Bush signs the Federal Funding Accountability and ...
El Cajon yanks religious programs off city channel By Liz Neely STAFF WRITER October 25, 2006 The opening of an El Cajon city DVD (top) showed God governm...
Training facility reeks of Blackwater By Paul Jacobs as published in print and online (www.nctimes.com) for The Californian 10/5/08 Old Blackwater keeps on ro...
State Dept. Move to Let Contractors Probe Complaints Over Other Contractors May Be Illegal By KIRIT RADIA *Oct. 3, 2008 * In an apparent violation of federal reg...
Blackwater Machine Gun Found in Raid on Iraqi Insurgents Incident Was Kept Secret and Raises More Questions About the Firm's Iraq Operations By BRIAN ROSS *Octobe...
Congressman Bob Filner and Assembly candidate Ray Lutz of East County speak out against Blackwater at Otay Mesa Rally Story and photos by Gayle Early Sign fr...
Democrats on pace to lead registration By Craig Gustafson and Helen Gao UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS October 9, 2008 The electoral edge that Republicans have held ...
New Fence Will Split a Border Park Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times Through a border fence, Jacqueline Huerta touched her niece, Yisell Martinez, who was...
By Patrick Heald When it comes to controversial San Diego County school districts, San Diego City Schools grabs most of the headlines, what with the district bo...
County school officials consider the future of intelligent design in the classroom By Pat Sherman The clearest evidence of our evolution can be found in our ...
Helix High board calls for trustee to resign Grossmont leader alleges misconduct By Leonel Sanchez STAFF WRITER October 31, 2008 LA MESA Helix High School of...
Blackwater: Layoffs It turns out that trucking wasn't as lucrative as private security for Blackwater Worldwide. One week after the government spurned the contra...
By BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press Writer LADSON, S.C. Force Protection, the military manufacturer that grew rapidly when the nation went to war, on Thursday unve...
In his first in depth interview, the former CIA head of counterterrorism and current vice chair of Blackwater talks about trying to warn President Bush before the...
November 10, 2008 By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a doze...
A training camp for members of law enforcement and the military is being proposed in Imperial County that opponents say is disturbingly similar to a facility plan...
Blackwater Backlash Getty Images Erik Prince, chairman of the Prince Group, LLC and Blackwater USA, holds up a picture showing the affect of a car bomb while te...
By Matthew Haggman05 13 2004 A scathing internal review of the iVotronic touch screen voting machines used in Miami Dade and Broward, Fla., counties, written by a...
By TonyPerry, LosAngelesTimes April 22, 2007 POTRERO, Calif. With its isolation and rustic ambience, this sparsely populated hamlet in eastern San Diego Cou...
by JeremyScahill from the May 8, 2006 issue It is one of the most infamous incidents of the war in Iraq: On March 31, 2004, four private American security contr...
July 8, 2007 RALEIGH, N.C. Internal memos show that four security contractors who were ambushed and killed in Iraq three years ago were told to go through the da...
Mishaps run deeper than new machines Poll workers, voters cite tied up hotline, poor training, confusion By Jeff McDonald and Luis Monteagudo Jr. UNION TRIBUNE...
When four Blackwater USA security guards were ambushed and massacred in Fallujah in 2004, graphic images showed the world exactly what happened: four men killed, ...
State Department To Blackwater: You're Fired, Leave Iraq by May $1.2 Billion Contract Won't Be Renewed Following Iraqi Refusal to License U.S. Firm By BRIAN ROSS...
Security training facility faces opposition www.privateofficer.com Posted on January 29, 2009 by privateofficernews Security training facility faces opposition w...
* JANUARY 30, 2009, 1:51 A.M. ET Afghan Guards Confound U.S. Forces By YOCHI J. DREAZEN KABUL, Afghanistan A contingent of Army Rangers was moving toward a ...
Blackwater: private US security firm mired in Iraq controversy Contractor effectively kicked out of Iraq over alleged killing of civilians * Audrey Gillan ...
Students to use firing range at Blackwater site UNION TRIBUNE 2:00 a.m. February 9, 2009 OTAY MESA Southwestern College will send its police academy students to...
Blackwater Sheds Tarnished Name: New Name Is 'Xe' MIKE BAKER February 13, 2009 11:56 AM EST RALEIGH, N.C. Blackwater Worldwide is abandoning its tarn...
Scandal Ridden Blackwater Changes Name Controversial Security Firm Attempts to Rebrand Itself By MADDY SAUER and MEGAN CHUCHMACH *February 13, 2009 * The scandal ...
Blackwater Changes Its Name, Shall Now Be Called the Knights Who Say 'Xe' By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNetPosted on February 13, 2009, Printed on February 14, 2009 ht...
Governing board sets deal with Blackwater Filner, faculty rip SWC pact with "mercenaries" By: Esmeralda F. Ramirez Posted: 3/5/09 Southwestern College has ente...
Powerlink meeting is met with outrage Residents say SDG E didn't announce routing By Anne Krueger Union Tribune Staff Writer 2:00 a.m. February 21, 2009 LAKESIDE...
By MiriamRaftery Before and After images of El Monte Valley *February 18, 2009 (Lakeside) * Lakeside planners, fire officials and residents expressed shoc...
Walter Taylor, Staff Writer ELIZABETHTOWN #8212; A wild stretch of the Cape Fear River serves as a classroom. Instructor Paul Imhoff of Blackwater USA, a private...
San Diego Reader City Lights Clouds on SDG E s Sunny Plans By Craig D. Rose Published Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009 When it comes to fighting global warming, San ...
LOCAL LETTERS It's a new (bad) name, but same Blackwater 2:00 a.m. February 28, 2009 About the company formerly known as Blackwater: Is a bad name the same as a ...
Jeremy Scahill Independent journalist, author, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army Posted March 2, 2009 12:34 PM (EST) BIO Become a...
July 13, 2007 When it comes to requests to give away public money, El Cajon council members just can't bring themselves to say "No." The city has become enmeshed ...
SAN DIEGO A San Diego congressman plans to ask Southwestern College to rescind its plans to partner with the private security company formerly known as Blackwat...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 EXCLUSIVE: New deal for Blackwater Jim McElhatton ( Contact) Days after the Baghdad government decided it no longer wanted the company t...
Iraqi widow files suit; husband killed by Blackwater employee By Greg Moran Union Tribune Staff Writer 2:00 a.m. March 21, 2009 FEDERAL COURT The widow of an Ir...
Vote probe raises fears over 'fix' '06 Pima County result, electronic system in question by Dennis Wagner Apr. 15, 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic Under the...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la na contractors17 2009apr17,0,5505250.story From the Los Angeles Times FORGOTTEN WARRIORS Injured war zone contr...
By Brian Handwerk NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEWS July 19, 2007 Cyclical changes in the sun's energy output are not responsible for Earth's recent warming, a new study a...
The following article was modified by adding a count by the names. You will note that the number that they claim was on board is not reflected by the actual count...
UQ Wire: 9/11 Commission Outline of the 9/11 Plot Thursday, 17 June 2004, 10:11 am Press Release: www.UnansweredQuestions.org Distribution via the Unanswered Q...
AP ENTERPRISE: Blackwater out of Iraq? No, not yet By MATTHEW LEE and MIKE BAKER, Associated Press Writers Matthew Lee And Mike Baker, Associated Press Writers ...
More lawsuits filed against Blackwater security firm 2:38 PM March 27, 2009 Two more lawsuits have been filed in San Diego federal court against the former Blac...
22 Arrested at Blackwater's Illinois Compound More people have been arrested for protesting on Blackwater property than mercenaries who have killed innocent Iraqi...
Blackwater, now Xe, era ends in Iraq Published: May 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM Chairman of Blackwater USA Erik Prince is sworn in prior to testifying before a House Over...
Rosemount HS grad is keeping the seas safe Nathan Hansen, Rosemount Town Pages Rosemount High School sent Chris Waugaman out into the world in 2002 and he hasn t ...
By BILL SIZEMORE, The Virginian Pilot February 21, 2007 Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA, announced Tuesday the formation of a new CIA type private ...
In the media December 11, 2008 Shutting Down Public Access TV By Patrick Range Mc Donald, L.A. WEEKLY AT T and L.A. City Hall Quietly Lead a National Pus...
The chief executive of private security contractor Blackwater USA said Thursday that better trained police officers could have helped limit the carnage in the Vir...
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression and they're about to do it again MA...
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder By Jeremy Scahill August 4, 2009 A former Blackwater employee and an ex US Marine who has worked as a security operativ...
Army reclaims $20 million charge Jay Price, Staff Writer The News Observer February 8, 2007 WASHINGTON The Army snatched back $20 million from the giant m...
By Jeremy Scahill August 14, 2009 Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State...
Moyock, NC (PRWEB) April 23, 2007 Blackwater USA is pleased to announce its new strategic partnership with The Backup Training Corporation, which provides top n...
By ADAM GOLDMAN and PAMELA HESS, The Associated Press 3:47 a.m. August 31, 2009 FILE In this Oct. 2, 2007, file photo, Blackwater USA founder, Erik Prince, tes...
The New York TimesAugust 20, 2009 C.I.A. Sought Blackwater's Help to Kill Jihadists By MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired o...
By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON From a secret division at its North Carolina headquarters, the company formerly known as Blackwater has assumed a ro...
News of 'Targeted Killing' Program Precedes Interrogation Report, Possible Probe By R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, Augus...
By DAVID MACAULAY Staff Writer February 20, 2007 CAMDEN Blackwater USA has enlisted the services of former Ford workers to begin commercial production of an ...
Who could possibly be against homeowners using solar panels to power their homes? Utility companies. ENVIRONMENT A Future So Bright Solar power breaks thro...
Ire over Obama speech action draws hundreds to meeting By Michele Clock Union Tribune Staff Writer 2:00 a.m. September 16, 2009 Sixth grader Sophia Bacting got a...
School trustee sealed his political future Concerning La Mesa Spring Valley school board member Rick Winet's public statements as to why he voted to ban the presi...
Sandra, the fifth grader in our home, left for school Tuesday morning filled with excitement. She was going to hear her president, Barack Obama, speak directly to...
Union Tribune Editorial School board's holiday meeting 2:00 a.m. September 12, 2009 EAST COUNTY Mark Twain had some choice words about them: In the first plac...
Two school board members regret blocking Obama speech By Michele Clock Union Tribune Staff Writer 6:35 p.m. September 10, 2009 Statements from board members DET...
Blackwater Security Consulting, Moyock, N.C., was awarded on Aug. 7, 2006, a $7,161,101 firm fixed price contract for personal security detail services protecti...
School board's blackout of Obama speech criticized By Michele Clock Union Tribune Staff Writer 1:22 p.m. September 9, 2009 LA MESA The La Mesa Spring Valley sch...
District Parents Stand Up to School Board that Banned Obama s Speech by Frank Gormlie on September 15, 2009 in Civil Rights Liberties, Election, Feature, Media,...
New resource for citizen journalists Post categories: BBC News Matthew Eltringham 16:10 UK time, Thursday, 17 September 2009 What is citizen journalism? More...
Citizen journalism will remain part of changing news models, says report tweetmeme_source = 'journalismnews'; Posted: 18/09/09 By: Laura Oliver email this stor...
By Bill Berkowitz OAKLAND, Jun 29 (IPS) Ten years ago, Erik Prince, the son of a conservative multi millionaire, founded the security consulting firm Blackwater...
3 BOARD MEMBERS APOLOGIZE, BUT TAPED SPEECH STILL NOT SHOWN TO MANY STUDENTS If you were students in my class, you would not pass. Maureen Paolini, teacher and...
Only comprehensive immigration reforms will work 2:00 a.m. September 22, 2009 If you are among the many who naively believe that immigration reform should begin ...
Taking a bite out of climate data 23 09 2009 Interpreting climate data can be hard enough. What if some key data have been fiddled? By Patrick J. Michaels, Natio...
By Anne Krueger Union Tribune Staff Writer 2:00 a.m. September 24, 2009 The El Cajon City Council wants to make improvements to the 1,142 seat East County Perfor...
Watchdog Report Assemblyman's campaign fund transactions raising questions La Mesa Republican may seek Senate seat By Michele Clock and John Marelius UNION TRIB...
State scrutinizes Fresno Co. Republican funds Published online on Tuesday, Oct. 06, 2009 By E.J. Schultz / The Fresno Bee SACRAMENTO The state s politica...
New U.S. data show how heavily the Bush administration has relied on corporations to carry out the occupation of the war torn nation. By T. Christian Miller Tim...
There are a collection of documents with various revision dates on this page maintained by the SecretaryOfStateCA. http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vsr.h...
Inquiry opens in Anderson finances State initiates probe of local assemblyman By John Marelius and Michele Clock UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS 2:00 a.m. October 8,...
ACORN's local director yesterday fired the community organizer who was caught on video providing advice about crossing the border to a couple posing as a pimp and...
CLEVELAND The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections on Tuesday announced that it has accepted the resignation of its embattled chief. Executive director Michael Vu's...
SAN DIEGO San Diego County officials said Wednesday that they had hired former Cuyahoga County, Ohio elections Chief Michael Vu as assistant registrar of voters...
Ohio Election Workers Convicted of Manipulating 2004 U.S. Presidential Recount International Herald Tribune / AP 24jan2007 Jacqueline Maiden, center, stands w...
July 5, 2007 Carl Mortished, International Business Editor Gazprom will create its own private army after Russian lawmakers gave the gas utility and Transneft, th...
Cindy McCain Bankrolled Conference That Called for Ban on Mercenaries The McCain Conference on Ethics and Military Leadership appears to be ahead of the senator...
East County Democratic Club (ECDC) members expressed outrage last week at what they view as congressional Democrats capitulation to a right wing assault against ...
By SETH BORENSTEIN, The Associated Press 6:34 p.m. October 26, 2009 Graphic shows the departure from normal annual world temperature AP WASHINGTON Have you h...
The show need not go on Saturday, October 31, 2009 EAST COUNTY The East County Performing Arts Center in El Cajon is closing for two years, foreshadowing that i...
FIRE Letter to Southwestern College Superintendent President Raj K. Chopra November 3, 2009 November 3, 2009 Dr. Raj K. Chopra, Superintendent/President Southwes...
Union Tribune Editorial Sleazy scam Anderson must return tainted donations Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 2 a.m. The Union Tribune watchdog report published Thurs...
Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died By MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret paym...
Fresno Co. GOP's aid to So Cal lawmaker investigated Published online on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 By John Ellis / The Fresno Bee A San Diego County Assembl...
Donation was returned to Placer County party By Michele Clock, John Marelius Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at midnight WATCHDOG UPDATE Background: The state Fair P...
July 24, 2007 LEMON GROVE: An East County institution has closed its doors. El Cajon Councilman Bob McClellan shuttered his car dealership, McClellan Buick Pontia...
The New York Times November 19, 2009 By MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON The international security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide is fac...
By Michele Clock, John Marelius Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 12:57 a.m. About 50,500 taxpayer funded mailers were sent out by Assemblyman Joel Anderson regardin...
Obituary By Blanca Gonzalez Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 1:50 a.m. Whether she was marching for civil rights in the 1960s, demonstrating against the wars in Ir...
By Anne Krueger Monday, November 23, 2009 at 4:24 p.m. Joel Anderson Previously Oct. 1: Assemblyman's campaign fund transactions raising questions Oct. 8: Inquir...
Anderson faces big fine over donations Agency also cites Fresno GOP panel By Michele Clock, John Marelius UNION TRIBUNE Staff Writer Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at...
By Ed Fletcher efletcher@sacbee.com Published: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 12:00 am Page 4B It was a win one, lose one kind of day for Placer County Republicans. ...
Most El Cajon residents probably know that Councilman Bob McClellan sells cars. But McClellan's car dealership is also a vehicle for McClellan to share his Christ...
By Michael Gardner, U T SACRAMENTO BUREAU John Marelius, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Friday, December 11, 2009 at midnight WATCHDOG UPDATE Background: The state F...
Fined legislator chided for tactics, praised as reliable By Michele Clock, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER John Marelius, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Sunday, December 1...
The New York TimesDecember 12, 2009 Blackwater Loses a Job for the C.I.A. By MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract...
By Chris Reed, Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 10:24 a.m. Assemblyman Joel Anderson may think he's out of trouble now that he's paid a big fine to the FPPC for his ...
By Chris Reed, Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 10:10 a.m. The continuing unwillingness of DA Bonnie Dumanis to confirm or deny she is considering or has begun a c...
Grossmont district to aid renovation By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. LA MESA The Boys Girls Club runs ex...
Politicians and their supporters have routinely funneled money through county level political party committees around the state, avoiding strict limits on campaig...
By CHARLIE SAVAGE Published: December 31, 2009 WASHINGTON In a significant blow to the Justice Department, a federal judge on Thursday threw out the indictment ...
EDITORIAL: Voters need full picture of donors Tough penalties needed to force full disclosure of campaign cash. Posted at 12:00 AM on Friday, Jan. 08, 2010 Whe...
Wind Zero Project to Bring Racing And Training Facility To Imperial County The Wind Zero team continues to see success with the plan of building their project in ...
(Note: this academy recently pulled their contract with Blackwater/Xe to use the BlackwaterOtay training facility. See BlackwaterInSouthwesternCollege for the ful...
Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. First of two editorials Step back for a moment and forget the controversies, the politics and even some pleasant memories...
$100,000 given to clinic for uninsured Grant is increased for Volunteers in Medicine By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 12...
Biden: U.S. to appeal dismissal of Blackwater charges January 23, 2010 12:25 p.m. EST Biden in Iraq Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) The United States plans to appeal a fede...
(TheNation) This column was written by R.J. Hillhouse. The unprecedented involvement of private corporations in the Iraq War has been well documented. Private sol...
Labor excesses show in firing of chief Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. I am writing this letter as a protest to a preplanned labor union action ( Residen...
Union Tribune Editorial Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. EAST COUNTY _ Life isn t about waiting for the storm to pass. It s about learning to dance in t...
3 local hospitals are fined for errors UCSD facility punished for third time since 2007 By Mike Lee, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 1:3...
By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 12:01 a.m. LAKESIDE Residents angry about the Lakeside Fire Protection District board ...
By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 12:02 a.m. The chief of the Lakeside Fire Protection District has been fired in a move th...
Activist a common sight recording local meetings Ray Lutz is government watchdog By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 12:04 ...
Video Here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi blackwater_23jul23,0,1702001.story By E.A. Torriero Tribune staff reporter July 23, 2007 MT. CARROL...
GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 11120 11132 11120. It is the public policy of this state that public agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and th...
HAMANN, ROBERT DALE Robert Dale Hamann was born in Winnepeg, Canada on December 9, 1923, and went home to be with the Lord on February 11, 2010. He moved with his...
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. LAKESIDE Two members of the Lakeside Fire Protection District s board of directors were notified this week that they v...
By SAMANTHA GROSS, Associated Press Writer Monday, March 1, 2010 at 4:29 p.m. NEW YORK ACORN employees caught on video apparently advising a couple pos...
By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 9 p.m. / AP In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, a woman rests on the edge of a swimming...
By The Associated Press Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 5:52 a.m. RAMALLAH, West Bank The PLO's executive committee has approved a proposal allowing the Palestinian pr...
By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 8:10 a.m. JERUSALEM — Israel approved the construction of 1,600 new homes for Jews in disputed e...
By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 3:02 a.m. JERUSALEM The U.S. will back those willing to "take risks for peace," U.S. Vice Pres...
By The Associated Press Monday, March 8, 2010 at 12:32 p.m. JERUSALEM Israel says it will allow the U.N. secretary general and the European Union's foreign poli...
By IAN DEITCH, Associated Press Writer Monday, March 8, 2010 at 12:27 p.m. / AP General view of the Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit, near Jerusalem, Monday, Mar...
By Union Tribune Editorial Board, Monday, March 8, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. El Cajon is considering pouring $4.3 million of redevelopment money into its now shuttered p...
By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer Monday, March 15, 2010 at 8:18 a.m. / AP Israeli border police officers stand guard outside Damascus gate, at Jerusalem's O...
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer Monday, March 15, 2010 at 5:47 p.m. / AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks during the visit ...
By ANNE GEARAN and STEVEN GUTKIN, Associated Press Writers Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 3:41 p.m. / AP A Palestinian man works on a construction site for a new home...
By SILVIO J. PANTA, Staff Writer ERIC MILLER PHOTO A group a protesters marches along a road Saturday morning in protest against Wind Zero in Ocotillo. ...
By DEVLIN BARRETT and MIKE BAKER (AP) 9 hours ago WASHINGTON Federal prosecutors are considering filing weapons charges against former top officials of the Bl...
By John Marelius, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 8:47 p.m. SAN DIEGO Midge Costanza, once the top woman in Jimmy Carter s White House and...
By Lawrence J. Haas July 31, 2007 War opponents have learned a thing or two over the years. Rather than take the political risk of demonizing U.S. troops, as they...
Public isn t given a chance to comment By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 12:05 a.m. EL CAJON Criticism of the way El Cajon...
Power outage questions probed Shut off of Otay Mesa plant remains unclear By Onell R. Soto, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 12:05 a.m. OVER...
By JUDY LIN, Associated Press Writer Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 6:24 p.m. SACRAMENTO, Calif. California Attorney General Jerry Brown determined Thursday that AC...
By Dean Calbreath, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 3:17 a.m. It s been 15 years since a certain lawmaker from San Diego County stood...
Congress has swooped into the debate over a cell phone tool that would direct illegal border crossers to lifesaving water stations and other points of safety. Th...
America s shrinking defense base By Duncan D. Hunter Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 12:05 a.m. The strength of America s military is derived from the professionalism of...
There are 48,000 'security contractors' in Iraq, working for private companies growing rich on the back of US policy. But can it be a good thing to have so many m...
Posted: Monday, October 30, 2006 12:00 am U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R El Cajon, officially announced his intention to explore a bid to become the Republican nomine...
Democratic Party endorses John Marelius Tuesday, April 20, 2010 The California Democratic Party made endorsements in several contested Democratic primaries in San...
By John Marelius, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Monday, April 5, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. On the ballot Candidates in the June 8 primary election in San Diego County cong...
Violations, unpaid fees leading up to an auction of man s land By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Monday, April 19, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. Howard Lipin / Uni...
Ex Congressman Duncan Hunter, at a May 2010 high school naming committee in Alpine June 2, 2010 (San Diego s East County) Ray Lutz, Democratic candidate for the...
Rep. Hunter, right, in Afghanistan By Miriam Raftery June 3, 2010 (San Diego s East County) While other candidates are hitting the campaign trail, Congressman ...
// East County Training Center helps developmentally challenged thrive By Karen Pearlman // , UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, July 29, 2010 at midnight EL...
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Blackwater USA, a private security firm with hundreds of millions of dollars in government work in Iraq, has polarized the backcountry community of Potrero with a...