A story in North County Times says Olga Diaz might seek election to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. The October 17 story by Chris Nichols says Diaz “is focused on her 2012 council re-election bid but may join the supervisor race” if no other Democrat “steps up” to oppose Republican Steve Danon. Incumbent [...]

The change to Charter City status for Escondido is part of “a concerted campaign” to “reduce the power base of unions,” according to a representative of the San Diego County Building Trades Council who spoke to the Club at its May 14 meeting. Murtaza Baxamusa is an expert in public policy who serves as Director [...]

In the first fall runoff race for Fifth District Supervisor Bill Horn since the 1990s, he defeated challenger Steve Gronke 53.4 to 46.6 percent. Read coverage in The San Diego Union-Tribune. Read coverage in North County Times.

After months of negotiations, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle an incident at a Francine Busby fundraising event in Cardiff in late June of last year. The factual reports of the settlement (links below) are interesting, but the Logan Jenkins commentary is not to be missed. He [...]

Hearings began in October on revisions to the San Diego County General Plan, which guides development in county areas during coming decades. The plan accepts population growth of 184,000 during the next decade, and identifies places where new housing and other development will be allowed to accommodate that growth. Conservationists regret the sprawl of new [...]

“Horn has more bgaggage than a Lindbergh Field luggage carousel,” says The San Diego Union-Tribune as it declines to endorse the incumbent San Diego County Supervisor. The newspaper did not endorse his challenger, Steve Gronke, either, but said “if 5th district voters are ready for a change, Horn has no one to blame but himself.” [...]

UPDATE: North County Times made use of the newly released information to publish a story about Phillips’ pay and benefit on August 25, 2010. UPDATE: Phillips’ contract was released to The San Diego Union-Tribune, which published this story on August 20, 2010. UPDATE: a story in the August 18 edition of the U-T notes that Phillips [...]

EDC member and officer Jason Everitt is “furious” that San Diego County failed to apply for more than $11 million in federal funds for local jobs creation. So he wrote an op-ed calling attention to the failure, and it has been published by North County Times. Read Everitt’s commentary.