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For 10 years, Lisa Druxman has been on a mission — to cost herself money.

Now that the candidates for the San Diego’s next school superintendent have been identified, the public vetting is under way.

Former City Attorney Michael Aguirre spent much of his four years in office looking for one big legal victory that would take back roughly $900 million in pension benefits promised to San Diego city workers and restore City Hall’s fiscal footing.

A state commission voted Thursday to recognize a Lakeside parcel as an Indian burial site, in an attempt to protect it from being part of a $20 million water project.

Former City Attorney Michael Aguirre spent much of his four years in office looking for one big legal victory that would take back roughly $900 million in pension benefits promised to San Diego city workers. He failed. Jan Goldsmith, Aguirre’s successor, has taken a different approach.

Mean-spirited. Incredibly sad. Ludicrous. Just days after the June 8 election, county Supervisor Ron Roberts and his challenger, Stephen Whitburn, are lobbing such labels at one another — and showing no sign of taking a breather from the campaign trail in the run-up to their fall runoff election.

San Diego school trustee Katherine Nakamura has fallen further behind in her race for re-election, according to updated election results released Tuesday.

The San Diego city auditor, in charge of holding officials accountable for how they spend taxpayer money, neglected to sign documentation that would have led to his overall compensation being reduced by $5,000 during the past year.

Try as it may, the city of Escondido cannot break its streak of deficit budgets. The city will begin the new fiscal year July 1 with a $4 million deficit on its $75 million general fund budget, mostly because of the continued decline in sales tax revenue.

The rejection of tax measures Tuesday in Del Mar and Solana Beach surprised city officials who anticipated using the money for public services and assumed they had community buy-in.

Proposition G’s decisive victory at Chula Vista’s polls on Tuesday has supporters looking at getting a similar law passed in the city of San Diego.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina visited a lumber yard in Sorrento Valley Friday to illustrate the job losses in California and claim that economic policies backed by Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer have failed.

Updated election results do not bode well for San Diego school trustee Katherine Nakamura.

Assemblywoman Mary Salas declared victory Wednesday morning over rival Democratic candidate Juan Vargas in the 40th District state Senate primary, after securing a slim but solid lead.

After 10 months of political unrest in Poway, things may soon get back to normal in the town that calls itself “The City in the Country.” Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly supported the recall of Councilwoman Betty Rexford, who has served on the council for 15 years.

In Coronado, voters handily rejected Proposition H, an advisory measure that would continue studies of traffic relief options, including a tunnel from the San Diego-Coronado Bridge to the San Diego Naval Base.

City Attorney race too close to call

Sheriff Bill Gore easily outdistanced his two well-known rivals Tuesday in his bid to be elected San Diego County’s top lawman, securing victory outright nearly a year after he was appointed to the job.

San Diego City Councilman Ben Hueso won decisively in the the South Bay’s 79th state Assembly district Democratic primary Tuesday night, while Republican Brian Jones, a Santee City Councilman, was heading toward victory in his party primary in the East County’s 77th District.

Four incumbent judges were headed to easy victories over a slate of challengers who were backed by a group of religious and social conservatives. A race for a fifth seat on the bench appeared headed to a runoff in the fall.