Morning Report: Water Rates Will Rise, But Hurt Less than Expected 

San Diego’s main water seller OK’d a less-doomy price increase than the region was expecting, setting it at 14 percent on Thursday.  To make that work, the San Diego County Water Authority will have to find $2 million it can cut from its budget and delay some anti-earthquake-related upgrades to its biggest aqueducts. Those cuts…

Morning Report: Allegations of Inappropriate Touching at Santee Gym

Since 2021, at least five people have filed complaints with the U.S. Center for SafeSport about inappropriate touching at Champion Gymnastics and Cheer in Santee. The former coaches and parents who filed the complaints say SafeSport did little to follow up on their claims, Tigist Layne and Will Huntsberry report in a new story.   The…

Morning Report: Beef May Be Developing Between LAFCO and Palomar Health

The San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO as it’s often referred to, is a big deal. The agency is responsible for managing where public agencies’ and governments’ boundaries begin and end, and adjudicating when special districts can be created and what public services they can offer. It’s a seemingly dull purview, but it…

Morning Report: City Council Punts on Mega-Shelter Vote

San Diego City Council voted 7-2 late Monday to postpone its vote on the proposed mega-shelter lease until at least next Tuesday. A City Council majority – excluding Councilmembers Kent Lee and Vivian Moreno – voted to have city attorneys and officials work on lease revisions and analyses in hopes that they can get that…

Morning Report: Mega-Shelter Monday

The City Council is set to vote today on whether to move forward with a proposed 1,000 bed shelter campus pushed by Mayor Todd Gloria. The 30-year lease agreement for the Middletown warehouse the city wants to turn into the city’s largest long-term homeless campus – and the concept itself – have spawned major questions:…

Morning Report: Bird Nerds War Against Mission Bay Fireworks Cont.

San Diego Councilmember Joe LaCava said the City Council’s Environment Committee would look into the alleged deaths of seabirds following Fourth of July fireworks in Mission Bay.  “We’ll talk with subject matter experts to better understand what was so different about this year,” said LaCava, the chair of the committee which met Thursday, in response…

Morning Report: Dem Party Chair Dies in Crash

Rebecca Taylor, the chair of the San Diego County Democratic Party, died as a result of a motorcycle accident in Utah on Tuesday. Taylor was on a cross-country trip on a motorcycle and hit from behind by another vehicle, 10 News reported.  Taylor, 40, previously served as an aviation electrician in the US Navy –…

Morning Report: Sara Jacobs’ Potential for Power

Rep. Sara Jacobs comes from privilege. Born in Del Mar, she’s a White, Ivy League grad and the granddaughter of one of the richest men in San Diego, Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs.  But the lane she’s carved out for herself in Congress is far from what her background may lead one to expect. Instead, she’s…

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