Ex-City COO Set to Get More in Settlement Than Severance Would Have Been
An attorney for the city’s former top bureaucrat, who Mayor Todd Gloria belatedly claimed he fired for cause, says the ex-COO has reached a tentative $146,000 settlement with the city. The proposed settlement is larger than the three months of severance that ex-COO Eric Dargan sought when he…
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Morning Report: Ex-City COO Pencils Settlement
The city’s former top bureaucrat has reached a tentative settlement with the city that would hand him more cash than the severance he sought when Mayor Todd Gloria showed him the door earlier this year. Ex-COO Eric Dargan’s attorney told…
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Support the next 20. Give Today 20 Years of Impactful Journalism: In 2005, Voice of San Diego went live with its first story. It was a long piece about the…
Grossmont Board Gives Final ‘Yes,’ to Layoffs, Inks Six Figure Resignation Settlement with Chief of Staff
After months of uproar, Grossmont Union’s board did what everyone was scared they would – they finalized layoff notices. Later that night they also approved a settlement agreement with a…
Chula Vista Mayor Distances Himself from His Own Real Estate Company
Chula Vista Mayor John McCann’s real estate company filed paperwork enabling it to do business under the same name as a high-profile bayfront redevelopment project McCann has promoted as mayor.…
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The Learning Curve: County Sees Surge in Homeless Students Even As Funding is in Question
For the first time in half a decade, the county’s annual homeless census showed a decrease in the number of people staying in local shelters and living on the streets.…
An Experiment to Clear a Homeless Camp in North County Seems to Be Working
After months of planning, a North County effort to move hundreds of unsheltered homeless people from encampments into housing is underway, and it is showing progress. It’s been about a…
South County Report: Water Agency Demands Retraction From Former Board Member
Lawyers for the Sweetwater Authority water agency are demanding that former authority board member Josie Calderon-Scott retract claims she made recently to Voice of San Diego that the authority knew…
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Grand Jury Finds Faults in San Diego Unified’s Bond Program
Among the report’s findings, the grand jury concluded the district had ‘consistently failed to inform,’ voters of bond-induced tax rate increases or provided detailed lists of projects.
Why San Diego Unified Trustee Richard Barrera Wants to Be State Supe
Richard Barrera has an almost mythic status in San Diego County. He’s San Diego Unified’s longest-serving board member and has been at the center of many of the biggest changes…
Grossmont Investigated Him, He Resigned and Now He’s Chief of Staff
After resigning from the Grossmont Union High School District in 2018, Jerry Hobbs found his way back seven years later. All it took was a law firm, a new investigation,…
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Sacramento Report: San Diego Senator Seeks to Kill East Otay Mesa Landfill
Local leaders are putting the brakes on a South Bay landfill project that’s been in the works for a decade and a half. Fifteen years ago, a ballot measure proposing…
New Fee Means San Diego’s Trash Bins Are About to Get Smarter Too
San Diego is releasing a new batch of trash and recycling bins equipped with RFID (radio frequency identification) tags as part of its shift to a fee-based trash pickup system…
Sacramento Report: How San Diego Is Coping with Trump’s Slash-and-Burn Strategy for Climate Funding
Local organizations say the state should step in to backfill losses.
NORTH COUNTY
From Homelessness to a Home: One Family’s Fight for Stability
How a family overcame homelessness, and what it reveals about the barriers unhoused people often face.
North County Report: A Closer Look at New San Onofre Beach Lease Agreement
A future energy storage facility, use of state parks for military training and more. Here’s what’s in the new lease agreement for San Onofre.
North County Report: Escondido Planning Commission Shake Up Still a Mystery
A mysterious Planning Commission vacancy in Escondido, complaints of Poway’s inclusionary housing policy and other news I’m watching in North County.
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South County Report: A Dream Come True
There is almost no place in South San Diego County where you cannot see Chula Vista’s new monument to civic pride and ambition. The Gaylord Pacific Hotel and Convention Center…
South County Report: Water Agency Toxic Chemicals Saga Continues
Late last year, the Sweetwater Authority water agency made a startling announcement: There were elevated levels of toxic industrial chemicals in the reservoir supplying much of southern San Diego County’s…
County Budget Muscles Into Supervisor Race
The San Diego County budget leaped to the forefront of the race to fill a vacant South County seat on the County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday. Chula Vista Mayor…
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It’s Time to Make San Diego Work for San Diegans, Not Out-of-Town Investors and Corporations
Sean Elo-Rivera is a San Diego Councilmember. He represents District 9, which included the neighborhoods of City Heights, College Area, Stockton, Talmadge, Normal Heights and more. San Diego has natural…
The Truth About the Cost of Water: Dismantling the Water Authority Would Harm All San Diegans
As former San Diego County Water Authority Board Chairs, we heard and responded to demands from the region’s working families, civic and business leaders in the 1990s when our only…
Terra Lawson-Remer’s Property Transfer Tax Hike Will Worsen the Housing Crisis
If there’s anything we’ve learned from LA’s ‘mansion tax’ it’s that a transfer hike will only make the housing crisis worse.
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Sacramento Report: LaShae Sharp-Collins Wants More Homes Not Just Housing
We spoke with Assemblymember Sharp-Collins about her legislative priorities for the year. Here’s what we learned.
Morning Report: Showdown Over County Budget Reserve
San Diego County’s two Democratic supervisors plan to force a vote on Tuesday on their proposal to give county officials greater leeway to tap fiscal reserves during a time of…
Chula Vista Mayor Helped Free a Felon Who’s Going Back to Prison with Her Brother – A Lot Happened in Between
Five years ago, Chula Vista Mayor John McCann sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him for clemency on behalf of a local businesswoman convicted of fraud. The woman was…
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