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Talk host Roger Hedgecock has broken the news that City Councilwoman Donna Frye, Democrat, a candidate for mayor of San Diego proposed a 10 year, half-cent, $1 billion tax increase to address the underfunding of the pension system. She made this proposal during a meeting with the San Diego Union Tribune editorial board along with her RINO competitor Jerry Sanders. The segment will be in the last half hour of today's audio archives. The "temporary tax" proposed by Frye is mentioned in the Union-Tribune endorsement of Sanders.

Employees in the city of San Diego's treasurer's office – ground zero in federal investigations of city finances – destroyed numerous records last month, prompting a warning from City Manager Lamont Ewell yesterday. The destruction of records was revealed yesterday by City Attorney Michael Aguirre, who said he learned from an unnamed city employee Thursday night that about 20 people in the treasurer's Financing Services division dumped whole files into recycle bins and erased e-mails. The news spurred a terse e-mail from Ewell to "all city employees," warning against the destruction of documents that might be sought by federal investigators...

Remember the Milwaukee County pension scandal (and here, and here, and here) over the last few months? Just when you thought it couldn't get any crazier, we find out one of the supervisors called the Sheriff (at three in the morning) and asked him to declare martial law to quot;put this community at ease.quot; Here's the story: Supervisor floated idea of martial law Revelation about call to sheriff stuns crowd By MIKE JOHNSONof the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: Feb. 26, 2002 As citizen furor over Milwaukee County's pension scandal mounted early last month, Supervisor Kathy Arciszewski made a 3...