UNION-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL
Aguirre's default
Suit hits lender that threatened foreclosure
When City Attorney Mike Aguirre staged a high-profile press conference this week to announce he was filing a lawsuit against Countrywide Financial, he failed to disclose one relevant fact: On two separate occasions, Aguirre himself defaulted on a $432,000 loan he had from Countrywide on the house he owns on Albatross Street in San Diego.
UNION-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL
Practical vs. radical
Initiative threat better tactic than vast pay cut
Warning of an imminent cash crunch unless California finally approves a 2008-09 budget, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is poised to issue an executive order Monday that would temporarily reduce the pay of about 200,000 of the state's 245,000 workers to the federal minimum wage.
