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******BREAKING NEWS******
TUESDAY Feb. 9, 2010
WHO DAT!!!
The California Fair Political Practices Commission has fined state Assembly minority leader-elect, Martin Garrick, R-Solana Beach, who represents Rancho Santa Fe, for his failure to report lobbyist gifts. Garrick was fined for not filing public disclosures as required by law for meals and concert tickets. "Garrick agreed to pay $600 for failing to report a $105 lunch from Oak Tree Racing Assn., a $124 dinner by Boeing Co., and $146 in concert tickets from Sempra Energy," according to the state ethics oversight agency.
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Lake Hodges open for business; fishing not very good however due to muddy waters, but the lake is open Wednesday and Saturday through fall. Enjoy!
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Want to see the Top 10 most expensive Rancho Santa Fe homes for sale? Check them out at the San Diego Lifestyle blog by following this link...
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The U.S. Department of Defense has announced a software contract worth $10 million with future options approaching $30 million to Juno Technologies with the work scheduled to be performed at Rancho Santa Fe. For more information, visit "RSF Business"...
Also...The infuential Tarkanian family -- think former collegiate basketball coaching great Jerry Tarkanian, his son Danny Tarkanian, now running for the U.S. Senate against Majority Leader Harry Reid, as well as wife and mother Lois Tarkanian, a Las Vegas councilwoman -- are suing La Jolla Bank of Rancho Santa Fe to block foreclosure, based on a $25.5 million loan. More in "RSF Business"....
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A major financial story breaking today concerns Rancho Santa Fe billionaire investor Ralph Whitworth -- the guy who bought Paul McCartney for wife Wendy Walker's 50th birthday party at Delicias; they divorced one year later. Seth Hettana, former Associated Press San Diego correspondent, blogs about how Whitworth's biggest investment client, the state of California pension fund (CalPERS) which has $1.5 billion invested with him, has retained attorneys to investigate an $17 million payment Whitworth's company paid a middleman to help secure the CalPERS contract. More in "RSF Business"... on the business story, more exclusive content at 92067 Free Press on the McCartney RSF concert follow this link...
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BLINK-182 HATES THE RANCHO SANTA FE ASSOCIATION. SERIOUSLY, visit this link to find out why...Ya think this recession isn't tough on everyone, even rock stars, consider this: Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge has cut the asking price for his Rancho Santa Fe home to a reported $5 million. That's a 25 percent discount. The 6,500-square-feet, single-story house on 1.1 acres has five bedrooms, five bathrooms and was built in 2003. DeLonge's wife Jennifer did the interiors. The vocalist and guitarist bought the house for $5.5 million in 2005 and started trying to sell it for $6.25 million in 2007.
Want to feel what it's like to want a rock star's home? Ride along with "Shoutmouth" as he blogs about ringtones, rock stars and DeLonge's utimate fan merchandising opportunity. See it, feel it, be it, interior house photos and more in "Lifestyle"...
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The Rancho Santa Fe Christmas Bird Count results were reported Saturday, Jan. 9 by the Audubon Society. RSF "had a good year with 190 species," said Andrea Jones of Audubon California. Three species new for this count were Zone-tailed Hawk, Orchard Oriole, and Nutmeg Mannikin (an increasing invasive species). At the other end of the state, the Arcata counters reported a preliminary total of 183 species. Ocean scoping afforded looks at some pelagic species including Red Phalarope, Short-tailed Shearwater, Pomarine Jaeger, and Ancient Murrelet. Other highlights included Northern Pygmy-Owl, 1 Osprey (rare in winter), American Golden-Plover (a latest date for Humboldt County), Snowy Plover, Cassin’s Vireo, and American Redstart.
Results of all Christmas Bird Counts for every year recorded throughout the U.S. can be found at: http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/index.html
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Mark Alan Stamaty's latest project now hitting the bookstores. A bit about this award-winning political columnist now featured at 92067 Free Press:
"In 1981 Meg Greenfield, editorial page editor of the Washington Post, asked Mark Alan Stamaty to create a comic strip about Washington for her op-ed page. Mark traveled to D.C. to do extensive research, and in November of that year the Post and the Village Voice jointly debuted his new creation, Washingtoon, featuring, among many other characters, Congressman Bob Forehead, chairman of the JFK-Look-Alike Caucus. The comic strip’s popularity with Postand Voice readers led to its being picked up by more than 40 newspapers, including theBoston Globe, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Austin-American Statesman.
From 1994 to 1996, Mark was the political cartoonist for TimeMagazine. From 2001 to 2003, he produced the highly praised monthly comic strip Boox for the New York Times Book Review. His cartoon reporting has covered a variety of events for GQMagazine and The New Yorker, including men's fashion shows in Milan, the 2001 Baseball All-Star Game, the Washington Redskins' training camp, the Madison Square Garden 1992 25th-Anniversary Concert honoring Bob Dylan, the buzz around Washington during President Clinton's grand jury testimony, a UFO convention, and many more..." For more of Mark's Bio and other stuff follow this link....
“SHAKE, RATTLE & TURN THAT NOISE
How Elvis Shook Up Music, Me and Mom”
Mark Alan Stamaty
The first time I ever heard an Elvis Presley record, “Hound Dog” – at age 8 in 1956 - it swept me up in a feeling of pure joy, got me moving and dancing instantly like nothing I’d ever heard before. I turned up my radio full blast and let the music take me away....FOR MORE FOLLOW THIS LINK....
"Patience is the companion of wisdom" -- St. Augustine
Caltrans Real-Time Traffic update follow this link
"As above, so below," damn the raccoons, full speed ahead for Michael Mercury and his Feb. 9 forecast...
Mercury Minute Daily Astrology Forecast for February 9th, 2010. The Moon enters Capricorn early in the morning at 2:43 a.m. PST. Love is the best form of Compassion ~ Clint Cochran, mystic...."The Tao is the now"...
Mercury (photo, below) refreshes his scope daily, dissecting the shape of things to come. And, of course, Michael's prescient reading of Rancho Santa Fe's community horoscope is available here and permanently posted on the Lifestyle page. Read more about Michael Mercury's career at KDVS-FM Radio
RANCHO SANTA FE NEWS PICKS
92067 falls to 9th Place in national home values by Zip code. Oops. read more....
Geezer bandit hits local Bank of America branch armed with handgun and oxygen tank
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Escalante Golf purchases 'The Crosby" National Golf course...In "Sports"
Don't think Tiger Woods will be playing The Crosby's award-winning course any time soon, but the influential golf management company has taken on the Del Dios Highway landmark... read more... |
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Eat the rich? Got to revolution, but for your consideration now, Eric Parker FEEDS the rich. A mild-mannered 35-year-old Cardiff resident by day, Parker travels the Rancho by day and night delivering...pizza. Take a ride on Rancho Santa Fe's Wild Side. "Faces and Places"....A " Day 196: Dec. 14, 2009 (keeping up with the Joneses holiday spirit, the fat man and the enabler, and the end of life)...read more
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Shaking it at the Cuban Music Festival
Do you want to read an interesting entertainment blog writen by a nine-year-old kid no less? Rhetorical question. For a limited time only, we are proud to feature Perry S.Chen's "Prerry's Previews". Perry is a 3rd-Grader at Torrey Hils Elementary School and was featured Sunday, May 31 on CBS Ecening News. More of Prerry's Previews, including movie reviews and celebrity news, in "Education"...
Carlsbad Flower Fields - photo by nilo
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Danny Boyle Best Director for Slumdog Millionaire. photo by nilo
Slumdog Millionaire won 8 Oscars and it is now out on
DVD...and 92067freepress.com was there to cover it for you!
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Heaven couldn't wait, 3/26/97...
In 1997 the bodies of 21 women and 18 men, members of the Heaven's Gate doomsday cult, were found in a rented mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.; they had died in the nation's worst mass suicide. For more, see "Faces, Places..." section, scroll down.
Here is a message from "Do" and gang...
------------------------------------------------------------------------Want to see a bit of Friday's RSF Library Open house? Another exclusive 92067 Free Press video. Only 92067 Free Press was there! For more this week, go to "Breaking News"...
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In a lawsuit filed in San Diego County Superior Court, the state sought a permanent injunction and civil penalties of at least $300,000 from Contractors Asset Protection Assn. Inc., 16526 Zumaque, Rancho Santa Fe, and its founder-president, Eugene J. Magre.
California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown filed the suit on Magre's scheme advising small companies to avoid buying costly workers' compensation insurance by turning employees into stock-owning corporate officers.
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“We look forward to growing this one-of-a-kind senior wellness center that will provide San Diego's seniors who are living in or near poverty with what they are entitled to: independence and dignity,” Gary West said. He and his wife, Mary, launched their charitable foundation last year.
The couple, who live in Rancho Santa Fe and Omaha, Neb., made their money in telecommunications before diversifying into tourism and senior housing. They own a hotel and restaurants in Carlsbad, three senior complexes around Southern California and are active in horse racing nationally. In 2007, Inc. magazine called them the “richest American couple you've never heard of.”
THE GARY AND MARY WEST FOUNDATION OF RANCHO SANTA FE MADE A $3 MILLION DOLLAR GIFT TO SAN DIEGO SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTERS, A 38-YEAR-OLD ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO PROVIDING PROGRAMS AND HOUSING FOR LOW INCOME SENIORS. THE GROUP HAS AN $8 MILLION ANNUAL BUDGET AND A LONGSTANDING NO. 1 PRIORITY IN GAINING FUNDING TO BUY HOUSING FOR FINANCIALLY-STRAPPED SENIORS. THIS BECOMES REALITY NOW
MORE COVERAGE OF THE WEST DONATION, SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTERS AND TUESDAY'S EVENT FOLLOW THIS LINK.FOR THE OFFICIAL STORY ON THE DONATION AND THE CENTERS
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ONE OF THE FAVORITE CAUSES FOR RANCHO SANTA FE SOCIETY AND OTHERS HAS BEEN SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY. FRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY. SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION. ETC. THE ACADEMY OPENED IN 2001 AS THE FIRST RESIDENTIAL EDUCATION CAMPUS IN THE NATION. IT HAS 135 STUDENTS LIVING AND ATTENDING SCHOOL THERE WITH PLANS TO EXPAND. ONE OF THE GREAT INNOVATIONS AT THE CAMPUS IS ITS FARM AND AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM MANAGED BY SCOTT MURRAY, AN ORGANIC GROWING PIONEER AS WELL AS LONGTIME RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT LEADER AND SLOW FOODS ADVOCATE. READ ABOUT THE SAN PASQUAL AG PROGRAM, MURRAY AND MORE INSIDE "EDUCATION"
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GERRY PARSKY APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER'S BIPARTIS AN 21ST CENTURY ECONOMY COMMISSION. THE GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS EACH APPOINTED HALF OF THE COMMISSION CHARGED WITH RE-EXAMINING AND RESTRUCTURING THE STATE'S REVENUE PROCUREMENT PROCESS IN ORDER TO AVOID FUTURE BUDGET CRISES. SOME OF THE GOVERNOR'S AND PARSKY'S REMARKS WITH MORE ON PARSKY INSIDE "LIFESTYLE
Governor Schwarzenegger and Legislative Leaders Announce Appointments to Bipartisan Commission on the 21st Century Economy
Event: Press Conference, Room 1190, State Capitol, Sacramento, CA
GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER:
Hello, good afternoon. First of all, thank you very much to Speaker Bass and to Gerry Parsky and Senator Steinberg for being here today. We just wanted to make an announcement about our commission. Just over a month ago I announced the creation of a Commission on the 21st Century Economy. As a matter of fact, we did it together with my partner, Speaker Bass. Today I'm happy to announce with the legislature our appointments to this important bipartisan group, which consists of 12 members.
 Gov. Schwarzenegger and Legislative Leaders Announce Appointments to Bipartisan Commission on the 21st Century Economy Left to right: Commission on the 21st Century Economy Chair Gerald Parsky, Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles). Photo: Peter Grigsby, Office of the Governor. |
CONTINUED COVERAGE IN "BREAKING NEWS" ....
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