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San Diego medical-marijuana initiative is not a joint effort

Patient Care Association picks up prominent Democratic support, but also new adversaries from within the medi-pot community

For all the new alliances PCA is creating, the group may find its greatest adversaries among other medical-marijuana leaders, who’ve either taken a neutral position or are outright opposed to the proposed Compassionate Use Dispensary Restriction and Taxation Ordinance.

By Dave Maass

Turds & Blossoms: Carl DeMaio gets it wrong again

CityBeat grades the campaign trail

Twice in roughly a week, quotes from San Diego City Councilmember and mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio were removed from stories in the U-T San Diego for inaccuracy.

By Kelly Davis

Last Blog on Earth

Roger Hedgecock gets it wrong

Were U-T San Diego fact-checkers out to lunch when talk-show host turned in his column?

Recently, the U-T San Diego added conservative radio talk-show host Roger Hedgecock to their columnists roster. Apparently, the paper's given Hedgecock free rein to write whatever he wants, fact-check...

CityBeat writer to moderate presidential debates this weekend

Watch online and tweet your questions for the dark-horse candidates to @pwh2012

San Diego CityBeat staff writer Dave Maass (OK, that's me) will be moderating not one, but two presidential debates this weekend in Tucson, Arizona, as part of the Project White House "reality journal...

U-T outsources comment censorship

Move is expected to 'refine the tone and content of the comments without hindering their flow'

The new owners of U-T San Diego have been making a lot of changes at the city's main daily newspaper. The latest involves new policies for censoring monitoring comments on its website. According to an...

Eric Bidwell’s back

The dreadlocked one is running again for mayor

“Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.”—Ralph Waldo EmersonThe signature cigar-thick dreadlocks now flow a good two feet longer, down past the knees. The T-

By John R. Lamb

Action = good

Homelessness initiative promises to move 125 people off the street in a month; we're stoked

By Kelly Davis

I spent a few hours two Sundays ago at a training for volunteers participating in San Diego’s “Registry Week”—an effort to survey people living on the streets of Downtown to identify the most vulnerable and get them into housing.

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Stick and carrot

Sleeping-ticket ban gets some clarity

By Kelly Davis

Since early 2007, when a legal settlement barred police from ticketing homeless people for sleeping in public between 9 p.m. and 5:30 a.m., a persistent question has been: How long will this last?

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Editorial

Paranoia-induced overkill

What can be done to stop this awful condition?

By CityBeat Staff

This week, we’d like to talk about a serious condition known as “paranoia-induced overkill” (PIO).

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Pricey people

United Way seeks to attack homelessness from a new angle

By Kelly Davis

When CityBeat tagged along with Travis Larson and his street-outreach team last June, they’d just received a $332,000 grant from the United Way. The money was to go toward getting some of the area’s most difficult-to-reach homeless people off the street and into rooms at the Metro Hotel, located in East Village, where they’d then work with a case manager to get their lives on track.

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Sleep deprivation

It's the lack of shelter beds, stupid!

By Kelly Davis

Amid controversy last week over a proposal to carve out sleeping zones downtown where San Diego's homeless citizens can't be ticketed, Bob McElroy spotted an opportunity. McElroy, who heads the homeless-services program Alpha Project, is resurrecting a plan to set up what he calls a “central intake facility” for the homeless on a portion of city land just north of downtown, at 19th and B streets.

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(In)visible people

Art project wants you to think differently about the homeless

By Kelly Davis

In 2007, CityBeat kicked off a yearlong effort to put names, stories and faces to the city’s homeless population and find out the reasons people end up—and too often stay—on the street. We tried to sum it all up in our July 16, 2008, issue.

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The mystery of Marvin

What kept a homeless man on the street until his death?

By Kelly Davis

Marvin Bradshaw’s death on May 8 wasn’t too out of the ordinary. According to the county Medical Examiner, he was one of more than 30 homeless men and women who’ve died in San Diego County so far this year. At 52, he was roughly the average age of homeless decedents in the county over the last 18 months (49) and his cause of death (heart disease) is that group’s most common killer.

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Special projects: Bill Horn files

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Gone, but not forgotten

Inconsistencies emerge in investigation of gay activist’s donation to Bill Horn

By Dave Maass

An oversight agency’s recent decision to close an investigation into a dubious donation to a San Diego County supervisor’s reelection campaign raises more questions than it puts to bed.

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Life lessons

County halts funding of group that produces Christian, pro-life education materials

By Dave Maass

San Diego County has halted payment of a $20,000 grant to a pro-life organization’s annual fundraiser while county attorneys investigate whether the money raised is used to fund religious educational materials.

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Editorial

Our money, wasted

Supervisors need to put a leash on those slush puppies.

By CityBeat Staff

San Diego County Supervisor Bill Horn put his anti-abortion agenda above his responsibility to taxpayers when he sponsored grants to the La Mesa-based organization Life Perspectives.

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Fetal position

County supervisor Bill Horn uses your money to promote pro-life education

By Dave Maass

During the last three years, San Diego County Supervisor Bill Horn has steered $80,000 in public money to a Christian organization that provides pro-life educational materials to K-12 schools. The ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties says the grants may violate federal and state constitutional provisions separating church and state.

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Billing Bill

Mortgage broker accuses county supervisor of stiffing him on a commission payment

By Dave Maass

Bernard Tolin doesn’t keep a computer on his desk. The 74-year-old mortgage broker is old-school like that; the desks and filing cabinets of his third-floor office in Mission Valley are covered with manila folders stuffed with paper. One of these folders contains paperwork that Tolin says proves San Diego County Supervisor Bill Horn owes him more than $9,000.

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Flush Bill Horn

What to do with a county supervisor who really stinks

By CityBeat Staff

What to do with a county supervisor who really stinks

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