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City Demands Demo of Blighted California Theatre
The city is ordering the owners of the abandoned California Theatre to tear down the blighted building.
MORNING REPORT
Morning Report: City Pushing for Demolition of California Theatre
The California Theatre has long been a blighted, decaying downtown eyesore. Now, following word that yet another owner wants to abandon its plan to redevelop the site, Mayor Todd Gloria’s administration is demanding that they make plans to demolish it.…
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Rosarito’s Entrenched Expat Community Is Growing – and So Are Volunteer Efforts
Charly Kimm was on a stepladder, arranging some clothes hangers, when I met her last Wednesday inside the jam-packed Red Cross thrift shop off of Benito Juarez Boulevard in Rosarito…
Already a Mess, Chula Vista’s ‘Capricious’ Cannabis Permit Process Scrambled Even More by Court Ruling
An appellate court is forcing the city of Chula Vista to keep a cannabis company in the running for a license to operate in the city. One problem, though, is…
Politics Report: A New Countywide Housing Agency?
The Legislature has been advancing a bill that would create a new agency to raise local taxes and attract state matching funds for housing. Plus, the mayor responds to the…
recent stories
VOSD Podcast: O Funding, Where Art Thou?
This week on the VOSD Podcast, hosts Scott Lewis, Jakob McWhinney and Catherine Allen discuss the empty promise of SB 2, big old theater news and pickleball.
San Diego Housing Commission Sends $44M Wish List to Guv, Wants to Buy California Theatre
The chair of the San Diego Housing Commission sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom seeking at least $44 million in state funding, including $25 million to buy the California…
The Old World (of Textbooks) Is Dying, and the New World (of Textbooks) Hasn’t Arrived
Open Educational Resources, Zero-Textbook-Cost Courses and E-Textbook NFT’s, Oh My!
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Education
State Files New Charges Against Five Local Doctors for Improper Vaccine Exemptions
State officials have brought new charges against at least five doctors for improper vaccine exemptions, Medical Board of California records show. If the charges against the doctors are sustained they…
Parents on Edge Over Solana Beach Plan to Vet Donated Books with ‘Debatable Topics’
Officials say a new plan adopted in April to memorialize existing policies and standardize the way the district vets donated books is innocuous, but some advocacy organizations and parents worry…
Community College Districts in San Diego are Working to Build Housing. Here’s Where Those Efforts Stand.
State legislation offering more funding to community colleges seeking to build housing has motivated many colleges to make efforts to do so. But more money will still be needed
environment
Ensenada, Last in Line for Colorado River Water, Is Facing the Worst of the West’s Drought
Water shortages in Ensenada have left some residents without service for months, sparking protests and demands for change. The city, last in line for Colorado River water, is bearing the…
Climate Plan: City Commits to Getting Natural Gas Out of Buildings
The San Diego City Council passed Tuesday a new version of the city’s Climate Action Plan, which commits the city to reaching “net zero” carbon emissions by 2035. What’s net…
Lots of Tijuana’s Sewage Is Crossing the Border Right Now. Here’s Why.
A repair gone wrong sent sewage that would normally flow to the troubled Punta Bandera plant and be pumped far out to sea spilling instead into the Tijuana River and…
north county
Residents Question Encinitas Candidate Jeff Morris After Leaked Email to Blakespear
This post originally appeared in the Aug. 9 Morning Report. Subscribe here for free. Jeff Morris, an Encinitas mayoral candidate and outspoken political adversary of Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear, is…
Illegal Commune in Foreclosed Escondido Home Evicted, Residents Now Homeless
A group of previously homeless and low-income residents who lived illegally in a foreclosed Escondido home, turning it into a community that other residents decried as an eyesore, was evicted…
Carlsbad Created a Police Engagement Commission, Spurning Advocate Calls for Oversight Role
Keyrollos Ibrahim still remembers his first encounter with Carlsbad police: an officer singled him out of a group and searched him for allegedly matching the description of a local drug…
opinion and commentary
No Taxpayers Considered in Mayor’s Proposal
Under Mayor Todd Gloria’s proposal regarding 101 Ash, the City of San Diego will incur hundreds of millions of dollars of debt that will take up to 30 years to…
It’s Time to Settle 101 Ash
The city of San Diego has struggled to find a solution to 101 Ash since late 2019. There is no “ideal outcome,” but a settlement provides certainty.
Without Change, San Diego Infrastructure Will Continue to Fall Behind
Safeguard San Diego is a proposed ballot measure, authored by council members Raul A. Campillo and Stephen Whitburn
POLITICS
Politics Report: The ‘No on Everything’ Campaign Strategy
Why one of the more conservative of the construction contractor alliances has pissed off its ally. And the Laborers International Union Local 89 picks a team in the Sports Arena…
San Diego’s Surveillance Ordinance Passes Another Hurdle
This post originally appeared in the July 19 Morning Report. Subscribe for free here. The San Diego City Council took another step Monday toward the implementation of a surveillance ordinance…
Politics Report: Who Really Thinks San Diego Is Going to Triple Housing Production
The gap between the annual housing production number the city needs to hit to reach its target and the average annual production in the last 10 years is so wide,…
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