This week on the VOSD Podcast, environment reporter MacKenzie Elmer joins the show to explain how a spate of recent bird deaths in the city have reignited a fireworks debate.
Here’s what happened: After the Fourth of July weekend, dead unborn and adult elegant terns washed up in Mission Bay. Environmentalists blamed the fireworks and now they are calling on the city to revoke SeaWorld’s fireworks permit. Catch up here.
Elmer also explains why the stormwater measure was pulled from the November ballot.
On the second half of the show, reporters Will Huntsberry and Tigist Layne unpack their two-part investigative series about a youth gymnastics scandal in Santee.