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Gore Vidal fundraising for Floyd Morrow
By Matt Potter - April 17, 2008, 11:30 a.m.
We just got this news release: San Diego Mayoral Candidate Floyd Morrow invites you join him for an evening with: Gore Vidal When: This Friday, 4/18 “Meet and Greet” Social Hour with Legendary Gore Vidal – 3:30 to 5:30 Suggested donation - $25 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Cocktails, Hor ...
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Cell Phone Photos
By Matt Potter - March 9, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
We'll be showing up at the political events around town with our cell phone camera. If you've got an event that needs to be covered. let us know. #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; ...
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California Exit Poll Results on CNN
By Matt Potter - February 5, 2008, 8:18 p.m.
Check out these EXIT POLL results on CNN.com. As expected, Latinos go to Clinton by a large margin, as do Whites over 60. But Blacks are "N/A". What's up with that? Another reason to stay up a bit longer. Re "vote by region" the poll shows that Clinton wins ...
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Super Tuesday in San Diego: The Very, Very Slow Count
By Matt Potter - February 5, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Okay, here we go. Here's the LINK TO THE RESULTS PAGE AT THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY REGISTRAR OF VOTERS SITE. But don't count on an early count. Based on some word of mouth earlier today, this is going to be pretty dicey. Denied the use of controversial touch screen ...
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Super Tuesday in San Diego: Ron Paul MeetUp in C.V.
By Matt Potter - February 5, 2008, 6:24 p.m.
Here's another MeetUp. Two, actually. GOP's Ron Paul backers are MeetingUp at LA BELLE PIZZA, 373 Third, Chula Vista and the WESTGATE.
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Super Tuesday in San Diego: Huckabee Meet Up at the Westgate
By Matt Potter - February 5, 2008, 6:09 p.m.
Just found out that the local Huckabee camp is MEETING UP at the Westgate tonight. They say a "major candidate" may be there, but that could be in the eye of the beholder. At the moment he's projected to be taking his home state of Arkansas and Alabama and ...
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Super Tuesday in San Diego: GOP party at the Westgate Hotel
By Matt Potter - February 5, 2008, 10:56 a.m.
The new gilded age lives on at the Westgate Hotel. Check in here for the county GOP's SUPER TUESDAY BASH But don't forget to RSVP at the link below. (And there are special room rates for that long night ahead.) The Westgate Hotel 1055 Second Avenue San Diego, CA ...
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Super Tuesday in San Diego: Democrats party at the Eagles Lodge
By Matt Potter - February 5, 2008, 10:44 a.m.
Eagles Lodge the locale for county Democratic party's party. County Democrats are partying tonight at the Eagles Lodge, 3848 Centre St., San Diego. Live news coverage, election results from the Secretary of State's website, appetizers, a cash bar, and representatives of the Democratic Presidential campaigns. In North County, the ...
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Super Tuesday in San Diego: Obama wants poll watchers
By Matt Potter - February 5, 2008, 10:29 a.m.
The Barack Obama campaign is looking for poll watchers. "Just come by (1502 6th Ave, San Diego, CA 92101) Tuesday if you want to volunteer to do Poll Watching on election day." Afterwards, go to the party at 8:00pm – 11:30pm, East Village Tavern and Bowl 930 Market St. ...
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Super Tuesday San Diego Action: Clinton v. McCain
By Matt Potter - February 5, 2008, 10:02 a.m.
Super Tuesday is here, and we're posting as many last minute campaign related events as come our way. Here are the first two. Click the time for link to more details: John McCain's California GOTV Rally at Jimsair executive jet terminal, 2904 Pacific Highway. They promise that John will ...
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San Diego's Low Literacy Rankings
By Matt Potter - February 2, 2008, 9:14 a.m.
Jack Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, has produced a ranking of America's most literate cities by category. As far as newspaper circulation goes, we're at 52 out of 69, no doubt due to the virtual collapse of the Union-Tribune in recent years even as the city's population ...
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Should Balboa Park be Privatized?
By Matt Potter - January 31, 2008, 8:57 a.m.
San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders says he's a big fan of privatization of vital city services, but so far hasn't done that much about it. Now comes a report that suggests expanding the concept to Balboa Park and perhaps raising taxes to boot. A lot of it sounds like a ...
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San Diego State's KPBS Lags, New York's WNET Leads
By Matt Potter - January 30, 2008, 8:08 a.m.
Almost everybody has heard the sad story of San Diego State University's KPBS. Its individual donor base has stalled and the state of California doesn't have any extra money to further subsidize public TV in San Diego. The operation has been slashing local programming, such as the late, lamented Full ...
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New online collection of Iraq documents
By Matt Potter - January 23, 2008, 8:03 a.m.
Here's a great new resource for document hounds: an online database of U.S. government papers illustrating how the administration took the country into the Iraq war. Washington's Center for Public Integrity has put up about 380,000 words, including those of the president and major administration officials. CHECK IT OUT ...
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Great new online politics website
By Matt Potter - January 22, 2008, 12:05 p.m.
PoliticalBase.com is a great website for keeping up on breaking political stories and campaign contribution data. Put up by an ex-CNet guy, the site also has plenty of blogs and youtube links. It'll also generate code to paste into your blog to generate campaign finance hits.
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David Copley's yacht is on the move again
By Matt Potter - October 1, 2007, 1:31 p.m.
Union Tribune publisher David Copley, who sold off all of his late mother's other papers, ostensibly to pay her estate taxes, is the proud owner of the yacht Happy Days. It's been spotted around the med this summer. Here is the latest update, thanks to Yacht Spotter. 10/01/2007 ...
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Flannery goes after Chris Reed
By Matt Potter - September 30, 2007, 6:56 p.m.
Pat Flannery really goes after Union-Tribune blogger Chris Reed in this recent post. Reed has kind of an interesting act. Very U-T centric kind of guy. Flannery's take is very funny. (You have to scroll down the blog to find it. It was number two on Sunday night.)
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L.A. Law, Cal Western style
By Matt Potter - September 27, 2007, 10:33 a.m.
Want to know what's up with law students? Cal Western has three of their students blogging their experiences. Not exactly L.A. Law, but kind of interesting if you're curious about the minds of our future lawyers. Catch it here.
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Union-Tribune: Kinder, Gentler
By Matt Potter - September 20, 2007, 9:31 a.m.
Just how conservative are the Union-Tribune editorial pages? Surprisingly little, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Media Matters, a self-appointed liberal watchdog funded in part by billionaire commodities king George Soros. The group is out with a new web-based survey of the political leanings of op-ed columnists. A lot of those ...
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Red Bull race plane collides with Pylon
By Matt Potter - September 11, 2007, 11:16 a.m.
The Red Bull air race is coming to San Diego Bay on September 21 and 22. Here's a hit on a race course pylon in Monument Valley Utah in an earlier Red Bull event. (Sponsors of the race say its pylons are meant to take a hit and not bring ...