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Morning Report: Potentially Problematic Poll Questions
Last year, County Board Chair Terra Lawson-Remer’s office spent $89,000 in taxpayer dollars on two polls about possible ballot measures. One sought to gauge countywide voter support for potential tax hike options and another floated possibilities for county governance reforms. The second poll assessing voter support for proposals – including a third term for supervisors…
Morning Report: Petco Charity Scammers Plead Guilty
The Petco Park charity scammers have pleaded guilty to a fraud conspiracy. In August 2023 our Will Huntsberry exposed a fake softball charity raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars at Petco Park. It turns out the full sum was even greater. The two ringleaders pleaded guilty to netting roughly $3.5 million from Petco Park…
Morning Report: Questions on Superintendent’s Credit Card Spending
Controversy has swirled around Albert Einstein Academies – a two-school charter network – for more than a year. From the watering down of the school’s German immersion program to the firing of the elementary school’s principal, community members’ ire has increasingly focused on one person: Superintendent David Sciaretta. Now, school community members are raising new…
Morning Report: County Probe Highlighted Oversight Issues
A woman now charged with misappropriating $210,000 in public money through the nonprofit where she worked was one of the first people to raise concerns with county officials about the very same nonprofit. Last June, Amy Knox, the former chief operating officer of the Harm Reduction Coalition of San Diego, urged county officials to investigate…
Morning Report: County Contractor Stiffed Subcontractors
Long before a criminal misappropriation scandal engulfed a former county contractor, the nonprofit struggled to pay its bills. Nonprofits that partnered with the Harm Reduction Coalition of San Diego on its county contract to deploy an overdose reversal drug eventually ended up going unpaid for months. Former Harm Reduction Coalition staffers also went without pay.…
Morning Report: Police Dramatically Increase Ticketing of RV Dwellers
Enforcement impacting people living in RVs has more than doubled since police started cracking down in July. Our Mariana Martínez Barba reports that police wrote almost 700 tickets for violations of the city’s oversized vehicle ordinance which bars parking large vehicles on city streets from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. That’s up from 244 citations…
Morning Report: Best High School in San Diego?
Imagine a public high school where students of all ethnic and economic backgrounds love coming to school, score way above average on state tests and graduate with college courses already on their transcript. The school you’re picturing is Helix High School, a charter school in La Mesa, and winner of this year’s Voice of San…
Morning Report: Dems Come for Chula Vista City Hall
Though Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one in South County, the party has not controlled a single mayor’s office in the region since former Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre ascended to the county Board of Supervisors. That could change after Democrat Francisco Tamayo, a Chula Vista Elementary School District trustee, filed this week…
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