SAN DIEGO — San Diego Opera has announced its relationship with former General Director Ian Campbell and his former wife, Ann Spira Campbell, has been terminated, reports James Chute in a U-T story. The Campbells had been on paid leave since a new board has taken over the Opera in the wake of Campbell’s suggestion that the 49-year-old institution close its doors rather than go bankrupt. A financial settlement for the Campbells still is being negotiated.
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Judicial candidate Brad Weinreb received some help from three retired Superior Court Judges – Allan Preckel, Laura Hammes and Charles Patrick—who accuse one of his opponent, Ken Gosselin, of masquerading in campaign materials as a sitting judge. Instead he is but one of many attorneys who, as volunteers, are assigned cases, according to a U-T story by Dana Littlefield.
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Mayor Kevin Faulconer has voiced approval for Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman’s plan to equip police officers with body cameras, notwithstanding invasion-of-privacy concerns voiced by the American Civil Liberties Union. “I support funding for police cameras to support the chief’s efforts to make the department more transparent and accountable to the public,” Faulconer told the U-T’s David Garrick. A pilot project utilizing ten cameras “has been going very well and we’re very close to finalizing the policy,” Zimmerman said.
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David and Lesley Cohn, owners of the Cohn Restaurant Group, are among those credited in a U-T story by Lori Weisberg, for providing assistance during the fires. The company’s food trucks “have been helping to feed the firefighters,” her story reported.
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Preceding compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff