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<p dir="ltr">Flames are burning and mouths are watering. This week, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is bringing more than his emblematic bronze pitchfork to the West Coast: the first Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in California.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Flames are burning and mouths are watering. This week, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is bringing more than his emblematic bronze pitchfork to the West Coast: the first Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in California.</p>
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<p>The former highest-ranking City of San Diego staffer has come forward as the whistleblower who first exposed over $15 million in profits hidden within the controversial 101 Ash building lease deal.</p>
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<p><span><span><span>One of the principals of the City’s landlord company and the City’s pro bono real estate broker mislead the City’s then-Chief Operating Officer about $9.4 million in undisclosed payments made to the broker on two controversial building leases.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>The highest-ranking City staffer at the time the 101 Ash building was evacuated in January 2020 has now admitted she leaked documents to a reporter while investigations into the controversial lease were underway.</span></span></span></p>
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<p>RIVERSIDE, CA — During the five years it took Richard “Cheech” Marin, who played half of the 1970s comedic duo <a href="https://www.cheechandchong.com/">Cheech and Chong</a>, to work out the kinks of what it takes to have his own art museum, he looked for a “sign.”</p>
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