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  2. San Diego pension scandal - Wikipedia

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    The San Diego City Employees' Retirement System had been underfunded in some form for more than a decade. In 2001, as a result of years of sharp increases in pension benefits combined with decreases in pension funding [3] and a decrease in the value of investments, [4] the fund fell below certain funding targets.

  3. Freedom Station - Wikipedia

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    Freedom Station. Freedom Station is a non-profit 501c charitable organization located in San Diego, California whose mission is to assist recovering injured military service members who are awaiting their retirement or discharge from their respective branch of the United States military service. Freedom Station provides transitional housing ...

  4. Larry Greenfield - Wikipedia

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    Larry Greenfield (January 29, 1962 – January 28, 2022) was born in Long Beach, California the son of Judge Leslie H. Greenfield and Alice (née: Lieberman) and was a public intellectual, political commentator, wealth advisor, and columnist. [1] [2] [3] He was a fellow at the Claremont Institute [4] in Claremont, California and the Founding ...

  5. Malin Burnham - Wikipedia

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    Malin Burnham (born November 12, 1927) is an American sailor, real estate developer and philanthropist from San Diego, California.. Burnham was chairman of John Burnham & Company Insurance and Burnham Real Estate, the family business he joined in 1949, until 2008 when Burnham Real Estate was acquired by global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield.

  6. Ted Williams - Wikipedia

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    Early life Williams was born in San Diego, California, on August 30, 1918, and named "Teddy Samuel Williams" after former president Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt as well as his father, Samuel Stuart Williams. Williams himself claimed that his middle name was in honor of a maternal uncle (whose actual name was Daniel Venzor) who had been killed in World War I. He disliked the name "Teddy" and ...

  7. James O. McNamara - Wikipedia

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    James O. McNamara (born September 25, 1942) is an American neurologist and neuroscientist, known for his research of epileptogenesis, the process underlying development and progression of epilepsy. He is the Duke School of Medicine Professor of Neuroscience in the Departments of Neurobiology, Neurology, and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at ...

  8. San Diego free speech fight - Wikipedia

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    The San Diego free speech fight in San Diego, California, in 1912 was one of the most famous class conflicts over the free speech rights of labor unions.Starting out as one of several direct actions known as free speech fights carried out across North America by the Industrial Workers of the World, the catalyst of the San Diego free speech fight was the passing of Ordinance No. 4623 that ...

  9. Old Town, San Diego - Wikipedia

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    Old Town, San Diego. Coordinates: 32°45′27.45″N 117°11′44.11″W. The entrance of Old town. Old Town is a neighborhood of San Diego, California. It contains 230 acres (93 ha) and is bounded by Interstate 8 on the north, Interstate 5 on the west, Mission Hills on the east and south. [1] It is the oldest settled area in San Diego and is ...