Matt Potter

2 months ago | sandiegoreader.com | Matt Potter

On October 14 of last year — fewer than three weeks after Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed California Senate Bill 359 on September 28, allowing the state’s casino owning Native American tribes to sue card rooms for offering black jack and Pai Gow poker games that threatened the tribes’ lucrative gusher of gambling revenue — eight Republican legislators tucked into a free meal valued at $127.92 each and provided by the Viejas Casino’s Grove Steakhouse in San Diego County.

2 months ago | sandiegoreader.com | Matt Potter

When San Diego airport officials announced a new non-stop flight to Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Airport last month, the San Diego Union-Tribune greeted the news with a puffy write-up. “The new, highly coveted nonstop when new federal legislation opened up five slots at the tightly regulated Reagan National airport,” according to the December 24, 2024 U-T report.

2 months ago | sandiegoreader.com | Matt Potter

Inside the brain of Gloria’s whiz kid The San Diego Zoo made headlines last spring with news that its so-called frozen zoo might be used to clone members of a critically endangered rhinoceros species. “In 2018, the last male northern white rhino died, leaving behind only two sterile females and seemingly spelling the end of the species,” Popular Mechanics wrote in an April 16, 2024 post.

Jan 22, 2025 | sandiegoreader.com | Matt Potter

A drive by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to make low-cost insulin by spending $100 million in state funds has stalled, dashing the hopes of the well-heeled San Diego charity behind the project, which would ostensibly have provided a non-profit alternative to costly drugs from commercial pharmaceutical companies. “This is a big deal, folks. This is not happening anywhere else in the United States,” Newsom said in his 2023 State of the State speech, per a January 15 account by CalMatters.

Jan 15, 2025 | sandiegoreader.com | Matt Potter

With Democrat Todd Gloria safely ensconced in his second (and last) term as mayor of San Diego, speculation is already turning to who will come after his term ends four years hence. At the top of the list, per a January 8 San Diego Union-Tribune dispatch, is House Democrat and Big Pharma champion Scott Peters of La Jolla. “San Diegans are counting on him to continue to solve the region’s biggest challenges from Washington,” Peters aide MaryAnne Pintar was quoted as saying.