Matt Potter

Will Biden lease Miramar land for homeless tent city?

Soon-Shiong loses augmented reality patent battle against Niantic, Sunbreak’s second chance It didn’t take long for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and the New York Post to pick up on a homeless opinion piece co-authored by ex-basketball pro Bill Walton,…

Throwing Goldstones

Throwing Goldstones As city hall’s controversies continue to burgeon, Democratic mayor Todd Gloria has gotten his reelection paperwork in early, in the form of a January 4 candidate intention statement filed with the city clerk’s office. The move is…

Will Johnny Ek and Scott Mendel clear clouds at Specific Diagnostics?

Rainmaker’s run-in Fresh from a $1.8 billion March 2021 buyout by Roche of his previous employer, San Diego-based GenMark Diagnostics, the company’s chief financial officer Johnny Ek signed on in with Specific Diagnostics of Mountain View in the same…

The many advantages of being Nathan Fletcher

Lorena’s loot Given that traditional local news outlets suffer financial duress and the Union-Tribune is expected to go exclusively online most days of the week, the word that ex-Assembly Democrat Lorena Gonzalez has set up a $1.1 million political…

Otonomy, La Jolla ear cure stock, falls to 11 cents

La Jolla ear boxing A torrent of hype from high-flying La Jolla biotech investment outfits like Avalon Ventures continues apace, despite a growing stream of bad news for public investors. A sad case in point: the pending demise of the oddly named…

Will Gloria hire sketchy Sloat as homeless lobbyist?

Wanted: homeless lobbyist As homeless people swamp the streets of San Diego, the city’s Housing Commission is preparing to spend big money for a Sacramento lobbyist, presumably to chase a windfall of homeless-related state taxpayer cash. The…

Hidden video cameras pervade Mexican border

Amir Neshat – Valley Center's most interesting neighbor Spy cams among us San Diego, a city that for years seemed unaware of the spy cams in its midst, is again being reminded of its ever-present network of surveillance devices. The first exposure…

VA details increase in vets shooting selves

VA’s shooting suicides San Diego’s Veterans Administration Health Care system has fallen short in its efforts to deal with the growing number of loaded guns in the hands of suicidal patients, according to a newly released audit. “In 2019, an average…

UCSD hands slapped for not returning Indian relics

Juan Vargas staffers, Darrell Issa treated by Middle East lobbyists Buried in bureaucracy Unnamed UCSD professors have been improperly hoarding human remains and relics of Native American tribes for their personal use, says a new state audit of the…

Mexico fire comes up canyon to Campo

Buckman Springs Road jammed, the diner at Cameron Corners, Minutemen scan border near the 94, who rides TJ-Campo train, University of Healing, the sand trucks After it crested, the fire started "running pretty hard" east along the ridgeline. "We were…

L.A. angst over newspaper loss not mirrored in San Diego

Jen Campbell sucks up GOP money Tale of two papers News that the LA Times will be shuttering its Olympic Boulevard printing plant in a little over a year has triggered an avalanche of Angeleno angst, per a November 12 account by Times letters editor…

Ben Hueso and others get free Padres tickets from Sempra

Hueso’s Sempra home run San Diego-based power behemoth Sempra Energy spread around free tickets to local politicos this summer for the playoff-bound Padres, according to a mandated state disclosure filing. California state Senator picked up a gratis…

Times and a digital ad man from Carlsbad ad help Nika Soon-Shiong deliver L.A. parting gift

Though the future of the L.A. Times and its sister San Diego Union-Tribune remains clouded by the announced closing of its longtime printing plant, the Times and owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, along with his daughter Nika, can now boast a big political…

How to control suspects in the wake of George Floyd

Arterial Restraint A paper from Wake Forest University’s Medical School, employing data on so-called application by the San Diego Police Department, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, argues that the…

Union-Tribune's printless future heaves into view

Confirming years of speculation and widespread dread over the fate of the Olympic Boulevard plant that prints the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune in L.A., the struggling California newspaper empire of billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong has…

Vargas aides feted by Israel, Vargas defends ally

Juan vs. Rashida Kyle Bligen, a staffer for South Bay Democratic Congressman Juan Vargas, took off September 3 on a free eight-day junket to Israel, thanks to the American Israel Education Foundation, according to a September 23 disclosure filing…

Will Egyptian billionaire soccer mogul get San Diego favors?

News that East County's Sycuan gambling tribe and an Egyptian billionaire are on the verge of bankrolling a major league soccer team in San Diego has set off a big round of huzzahs on the Union-Tribune's October 28 front page. But as usual, many…

UCSD’s big downtown payoff

Jeff Silberman develops 87 apartments in East Village for La Jolla university A stiff price is being paid for the sprawling expansion of UCSD beyond its original boundaries; taxpayers remain largely in the dark, as exemplified by a reported…

Porn star breaks back in San Diego convention gladiator pit

Wendy Fry leaves U-T for CalMatters What Twitches stays in San Diego It’s been said that San Diego media protects conventions here from getting bad ink, so it was the New York Post, the Manhattan tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, that covered the…

North County colleges halt newspaper runs

Worries increase as L.A. Times needs to "rescue" U-T Community Press The fate of traditional newspapers in San Diego appears to be on the line in more ways than one, as two North County colleges shutter their print editions and a chain of weekly…