Last Blog On Earth (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
What do you do if you’ve gotten to end of the Road to Happiness? Are you then inherently happy? So why does Mayor Sanders have that looking on his face? Maybe it’s the sour news from the tourism industry at the press conference he attended today at the Sheraton off Harbor Drive. Tourism officials announced [...]
Last Blog On Earth (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Mayor Jerry Sanders has spent the last six months calling on San Diegans to change our water use voluntarily: He asked us all to reduce our monthly use by 20 gallons, he asked restaurants to stop serving water unless requested, and so on and so forth. But did we listen? No, we did not. [...]
boi from troy (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Could one man have propelled Proposition 8 onto the November ballot? That’s what some believe San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders did. By fall 2007, some opponents of same-sex marriage were becoming worried. Court-watchers decided the Supreme Court would probably hear the challenge to the state’s marriage laws in early 2008. Opponents worried that if the court [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of San Diego has proclaimed Monday, August 18th 2008 as Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) Day. San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders issued the Proclamation honoring ASACP and its RTA "Restricted To Adults" website label. The proclamation was issued in conjunction with ASACP being named the overall winner in the 2008 Associations...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders says a drinking water desalination plant proposal has been approved by the California Coastal Commission.
Last Blog On Earth (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... suddenly last week). The mayor and City Council are responsible for replacing board members. Mayor Jerry Sanders told the Union-Tribune last week that appointing SEDC board members was a low priority. Trowbridge told CItyBeat that they’re not suing for damages, but “just to get them to do their job.”
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... of Encinitas, Jim Janney of Imperial Beach, Mickey Cafagna of Poway, Jim Desmond of San Marcos and Jerry Sanders of San Diego. The mayors said the plant is vital for a secure water supply, especially now that California is hit with a drought and environmentally mandated cutbacks of water imports from Northern California. "This is a must," Lewis said. The desalination plant would deliver...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Future San Diego municipal employees will have retirement benefits reduced from current levels under a deal reached between labor union leaders and the city. In the agreement announced Tuesday, unions gave in to many of Mayor Jerry Sander's demands. Under the...
Queerty (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Republican Jerry Sanders earned gay love when he came out against gay marriage last year. The mayor of San Diego, once a stalwart conservative, switched ideological teams because, as he said, he could not betray his lesbian daughter. Right wingers were livid, of course, and Sanders’ decision only fueled their anti-gay fire: While some viewed the [...]
LAist (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Republican Jerry Sanders, the Mayor of San Diego, was dead set on opposing gay marriage when the City Council voted to support it. Expected to veto the decision, he had an about-face and called a tearful press conference. He announced his daughter and fellow city staffers were gay and that he couldn't bring himself "to tell an entire group of people in our community that they were less...
Potomac Flacks (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Who says you can’t go home again? Not Kurt Bardella. Bardella, who began working with Rep. Bilbray on his congressional campaign in 2005 and as his Press Secretary once elected in June of 2006, will return to Bilbray’s office next month as Director of Communications. He will replace Darren Pudgil, who is leaving at the end of July to join the staff of San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders as...
BwT (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Hector was the CEO from 2002, since legendary Jerry Sanders III left the company to retire, and Hector did quite a good job, at least until Barcelona debacle. This makes Dirk as the third ever CEO of AMD. Dirk is an ex DEC engineer and was one of the chaps who have !!!!gned Alpha CPU and later in...
Engadget (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Filed under: Desktops , Laptops Don't say the writing wasn't already littering the walls, because it was . Just months after AMD hacked its workforce by 10% and let its CTO walk away without being replaced , the company's second CEO after Jerry Sanders has spent his last day in AMD's biggest corner office. Hector Ruiz has decided to walk away from his role in the flagging outfit, leaving...
QNX (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The CEO of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is stepping down. Hector Ruiz had been just the second person to lead AMD after company founder Jerry Sanders. He'll be replaced by the chip maker's No. 2 executive, Dirk Meyer.
OS News (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The CEO of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is stepping down. Hector Ruiz had been just the second person to lead AMD after company founder Jerry Sanders. He'll be replaced by the chip maker's No. 2 executive, Dirk Meyer.
