SAN DIEGO – Today, San Diego City Firefighters and lifeguards will endorse former federal prosecutor and City Council candidate Sarah Boot, citing Boot’s commitment to public safety and experience as a community advocate. Both organizations, which represent hundreds of the city’s public safety employees, declined to endorse Councilmember Lorie Zapf, who is running against Boot…
SAN DIEGO – Last week Carl DeMaio took to the airwaves to attack Rep. Scott Peters for taking a $20,000 per year pension he earned during his eight years on the San Diego City Council. The truth – Peters donates the pension he earned during that time – plus an additional $5,000 per year – right back…
SAN DIEGO – As San Diego Opera nears its $1 million fundraising goal from the community ahead of the May 19, 2014, deadline, a group of donors have announced a matching gift challenge to invite the community to double the impact of their contribution to San Diego Opera’s 2015 season. Board Members Gloria Rasmussen and…
Toni Atkins, the incumbent in the race for California Assembly District 78 represents the highest concentration of LGBT residents in San Diego. An icon in the LGBT community she soundly beat Republican Ralph Denney in the 2012 general election garnering more than 60 percent of the vote. Atkins was elected speaker of the assembly and…
An ex-convict who hates Catholics has admitted to committing a hate crime against religion when he torched a Spring Valley Catholic church. A prison term of 40 years to life is the maximum sentence for Eugene William Volk, 45, of Spring Valley, who will be sentenced July 17 by El Cajon Superior Court Judge Laura…
Fredrick William Scholl, 74, of Lemon Grove passed away due to natural causes April 16 at his home. Fred Scholl helped build many of San Diego’s most important LGBT institutions. Fred was born in San Diego but lived in Germany as a child, and lost both of his parents in World War II. Members of…
SAN DIEGO – With less than a month away from the June 3 election, a supermajority of the San Diego City Council, including Council President Todd Gloria and Councilmember David Alvarez, gathered today at City hall to announce their support for the Barrio Logan Plan and Propositions B and C. Joining Council President Gloria and…
San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman spent her 55th birthday Monday night answering questions from residents at the LGBT Center and vainly, but good naturedly waved her hands to try and stop the happy birthday song from being sung to her. It was Council President Todd Gloria who informed the estimated 85 people who gathered…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Opera’s board of directors elected new officers during a board meeting Monday, April 28, 2014. The new executive committee includes Carol Lazier as president, Courtney Ann Coyle as executive vice president, James A. Merritt, M.D. as vice president of finance and Frances R. Marshall as secretary/parliamentarian. This election fills roles…
SAN DIEGO – Scott Peters received the endorsement of NARAL Pro-Choice America today, one of the nation’s most prominent advocates for women’s health care. “We are proud to endorse Representative Scott Peters in his campaign for re-election in California’s 52nd Congressional District. In the midst of the most aggressive anti-choice Congress in decades, women need…
