JOHN R. McCUTCHEN / Union-Tribune Chris Chamberlin, a valet at the Po Pazzo restaurant in Little Italy, waited for customers. The service, which costs $7, is open to the public – not just customers.

DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO – In hipster Little Italy, with its booming bistros and packed parking, San Diego is going to make its first foray into subsidizing valet parking – an idea at least one government watchdog finds as sour as a cappuccino with spoiled milk.

Indian tribes are finding that gambling isn't as recession-proof as once thought. Two new reports indicate that some of the same forces causing problems for retailers and manufacturers are hitting casinos as well.

Chula Vista's highest ranking executive has been reprimanded for his computer usage and asked not to retaliate against employees who reported his looking at “inappropriate images” while at work.

BALBOA PARK – After a formal search that lasted a little more than a year, the Timken Museum of Art has appointed a new director, John Wilson. He succeeds John Petersen, who died in December 2006.

A Japanese-American mother in a World War II-era California internment camp spends hours every day hand-washing diapers and bedspreads for her newborn baby. A father baits the street thief stealing sandwiches from his homeless family with a cockroach-filled sandwich.

Craig Slike is officially a mole. Slike was planted among a group of TV reality show contestants to quietly sabotage their efforts to win the show. Slike's secret role was revealed last week in ABC's final episode of this season's “The Mole.”