San Diego News

Tue, Oct 16, 2012

Pamela Karlan, professor at Stanford Law School, used the final four cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court last session as a means of elaborating on the court’s current tendencies, and what these might mean for the upcoming docket.


Mayor Jerry Sanders praised his administration’s efforts to increase contracting between the city of San Diego and small, local businesses Tuesday, touting a series of statistics demonstrating the city had surpassed its objectives.


Two new westbound lanes on State Route 76 in North County will open this week, as construction crews wind down activity in the second segment of a long-term project that will eventually increase capacity of the highway along the entire stretch between Interstates 5 and 15.


City Council President Tony Young has chosen his side in San Diego’s mayoral race.


Officials from San Diego State University are expected to gather Thursday to celebrate a milestone in the construction of the school's new student union.


The world’s oldest active ship, Star of India, is celebrating its 149th birthday on Nov. 10 and 11.


The California Public Utilities Commission may vote to open an investigation into the extended outage of Edison International’s San Onofre nuclear plant at its next meeting on Oct. 25, according to a posting on the commission’s website.


USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) will make its debut in San Diego this week.


Shares of WD-40 Co. tumbled on Tuesday after the maker of spray lubricant and cleaning products reported disappointing quarterly results and a sharp decline in sales to European customers.


Comision Federal de Electricidad, Mexico’s state-owned power company, awarded a contract to build and operate a natural-gas pipeline to Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE).


Sorenson Media announced a strategic partnership with RealNetworks to provide a solution to encode, manage and deliver online video content.


San Diego-based Mad Catz Interactive Inc. (NYSE: MCZ) announced a new range of G.L.I.D.E. professional gaming surfaces.


MEDICAL

Illumina Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN) launched the Infinium HumanCore BeadChip family of products on Tuesday.


A Thursday debate on religious freedom turned out to be more of a tame discussion than heated back-and-forth, as two professors said that it was indeed at risk, but disagreed on the degree and cause of the hazard.


GREEN | TECHNOLOGY | MANAGEMENT

According to a recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency, the amount of electronic waste created in the United States between the years 2000 and 2010 would fill enough space to cover the entire island of Manhattan at a depth of three feet.


GREEN | CONSTRUCTION | LIFESTYLE

When John Stein and his partners began Kirei USA in 2002, they had no idea it would eventually grow to the point where its eco-friendly panel boards would be distributed coast to coast, because back then, they had to talk up the green benefits of their product at trade shows and sales pitches.


The recent release of Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone 5 is of particular interest to San Diego startup ecoATM. It’s not the new technology that has ecoATM on alert. Rather, it’s the potential for an uptick in buybacks at its mobile device kiosks.


BofI Holding Inc. announced it has entered into subscription agreements with investors to issue, in a private placement, an aggregate of $18.6 million with 6 percent Series C preferred stock, and Vical Inc. announced it has appointed George Morrow to its board of directors, according to company announcements, SEC filings and Bloomberg News.


The following "Local Notes" appeared in The Daily Transcript's Oct. 17, 1997 issue:
On Thursday, Gray, Ware & Freidenrich announced that Jona Bolling, who had been implicated in a scheme to search the trash of the law firm of Flynn, Sheridan & Tabb, finally disclosed who hired to do so. As it turned out, the melodrama was reportedly financed by DiVita Investigations of Redwood City, Calif., not Gray, Cary, as some lawyers at Flynn, Sheridan had believed.


Park Crest -- a 34,754 square foot senior apartment community located at 5330 Orange Ave., San Diego 92115 -- has sold for $6,380,000, according to a release from the San Diego and Carlsbad offices of Colliers International.



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