| Inland Empire sales tax revenue declines (San Bernardino Sun) |
| Michelle Steel, who represents San Bernardino County on the State Board of Equalization, announced Dec. 31 that taxable sales in California decreased 0.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007, reflecting continued slowing economic growth. |
| 01/05/2009 |
| No More Bragging Rights (San Diego Reader) |
| The San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System always likes to brag about its investment performance. It endlessly points out that among its peers (other municipal employees’ funds) and among benchmarks by which various funds are measured, it is in the top 5 percent, or 3 percent, or whatever. |
| 12/30/2008 |
| Loan modification firms causing more problems for homeowners (Rocky Mountain News) |
| Lee Monson said she and her husband, Rich, paid a San Diego-based loan modification company almost $3,000 in June to keep from losing their Parker home to foreclosure. Their home now is in foreclosure and she has turned for help to the Colorado Division of Real Estate, which is in the midst of a major investigation of loan modification outfits. |
| 12/23/2008 |
| Optimism a hard sell for retail (San Diego Union-Tribune) |
| The Chula Vista Center sports more than one sad sign of the economic times, and they all read pretty much the same: Going out of business. The 26-year-old shopping mall, like many others around the country, is grappling with a growing number of vacancies and tenant bankruptcies. |
| 12/21/2008 |
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