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City Knowingly Put 1,100 Staffers at Risk of Fire in 101 Ash St. Building, Asbestos Scare Saved Their Lives

Downtown high-rise building purchased as a new space for over 1,100 staffers was closed down last year over asbestos exposure, but a greater threat to people in the building could have been uncontrollable fires.

[Part 3] Who Actually Approved 101 Ash Deal?

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The current San Diego City Attorney and her two immediate predecessors have differing views on who is responsible for the approval of the 101 Ash St building deal, but the City Charter points to only one ultimate legal authority that was empowered to approve the deal: the current City Attorney, Mara Elliott.

[Part 1] SD City’s Story on 101 Ash St Deal Is Crumbling Like the Building Itself

Emails from 2016 show City efforts to raise the value of a building by signing a 20-year deal and the former City Attorney focuses attention on current City Attorney Mara Elliott as the final backstop for the now-crumbling deal.

Gloria and Bry: Two Different Paths to City Hall

The two candidates competing to be the next mayor of San Diego come from distinctly different backgrounds and from different generations but from the same political party in what is San Diego’s first Democrat-only mayor’s election.