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Flood victims file $100 million suit against city of San Diego
Hundreds of property owners in San Diego’s southeastern neighborhoods who were flooded out during the torrential January storms filed a $100 million lawsuit against the city, contending years of neglect and poor maintenance of stormwater management systems damaged their property. The massive lawsuit has nearly 300 individual plaintiffs, representing...
National City removes Sandy Naranjo as its port commissioner
The City Council of National City voted 3-2 Tuesday night to remove Sandy Naranjo, an environmental justice advocate who was censured by her fellow commissioners in October, as its representative to the Port District of San Diego. The vote came after more than a dozen people spoke in favor of...
San Diego could cut equity grants program before it ever started
Just three years after creating an Office of Race and Equity, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria now wants to slash the department’s budget — including cutting funding for grants to community-based organizations. Gloria’s proposed budget would not just remove $1.5 million for the grants next year, but also...
Dozens arrested after UCSD protesters, police clash in wake of early-morning sweep
A contingent of state and local law enforcement officers moved in force to dismantle a pro-Palestinian student encampment at UC San Diego Monday morning, arresting protesters who had occupied the site since last week. In a statement the university said the encampment was illegal and its continued presence posed a...
UCSD protesters pitch camp in nationwide movement for Palestinian life
University of California San Diego became one of the latest campuses to have encampments form in solidarity with student movements across the country protesting the Israel-Hamas war and calling on universities to divest from Israel. Wednesday on the university’s La Jolla campus, protesters hammered stakes into the earth and strung...
Off the beaten path: How we reported a story about people living on an island in the San Diego River
After San Diego passed a controversial camping ban last year, I started to follow how it was affecting where people who are unhoused are living. The ban has significantly lowered the number of people sleeping on streets downtown, but it hasn’t reduced homelessness. Every month in San Diego, more people lose housing than find it.
$123 million water pipeline project near SeaWorld to begin this summer
Expect upcoming road closures and construction near SeaWorld — a $123 million project to update a water transmission system near the theme park and through Mission Valley begins this summer. About 10 miles of water mains will be constructed between Interstate 805 and Sea World Drive, mainly on Friars...
Majority of San Diego County’s largest school districts cutting jobs amid budget shortfalls
It’s not just San Diego Unified — other school districts across the region are facing massive budget shortfalls, prompting them to eliminate hundreds of vacant positions and issue dozens of layoff notices. Each of San Diego County’s 10 largest districts is facing a deficit next year as schools...
San Diego charter school votes to keep high school campus open despite growing budget problems
A campus for high schoolers in San Diego will not shut down despite its struggles with finances and declining student enrollment. About 20% of enrollment at America’s Finest Charter School is made up of high school students who attend a separate location on Estrella Avenue in the Talmadge neighborhood. Last week, officials told the community during a forum that it was considering closing its high school campus after meeting with its authorizer, the San Diego Unified School District.
Island life for these unhoused San Diegans means few police – and many hazards
Waterfront property in San Diego can rent for thousands of dollars a month — and costs millions if you’re looking to buy. But on one small island, in the middle of the San Diego River, about 15 residents get their own slice of nature by paying what some call “island rent.” And here, the rent is due every day.
Port of San Diego hits back at ethics, reform proposals in Alvarez bill
San Diego Port District commissioners dug in harder against a bill pending in the state Legislature that would require ethics and governance changes to the agency, saying they would support it so long as large sections were cut and several amendments included. At a special meeting Monday afternoon the commissioners...
San Diego’s planning groups say new $1,000 fee to oppose projects stifles community input
Nearly two years after the city of San Diego changed longstanding policy to begin requiring community planning groups to pay for appeals, the groups’ leaders say the $1,000 fee has proven to be a barrier to fight against projects they oppose. The appeals process allows anyone to challenge approved...
US Supreme Court takes up public camping ban and rights of unhoused people
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided Monday about whether governments can enforce a public camping ban when there’s nowhere else for people to sleep. The court’s ruling, anticipated in late June, on a set of anti-camping laws in a small Oregon town is widely recognized as the most significant case about the rights of unhoused people in decades. It could have far-reaching implications nationwide — including in San Diego, where officials and police have used laws against public camping and blocking a sidewalk to clear tent encampments.
Lawsuit challenges first lithium project in California
A new lawsuit has asked a Superior Court judge to block an Australian company from extracting lithium from brine deep beneath the earth’s surface around the Salton Sea until more research can be completed on the industry’s environmental impact. The lawsuit, filed last month by two advocacy groups,...
Can cities punish unhoused people for sleeping in public? US Supreme Court will decide
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case that could decide whether it’s constitutional for governments to enforce a public camping ban when there’s nowhere else for people to sleep. The court’s decision could have far-reaching implications here in San Diego and throughout California,...
Lawsuit alleging bid rigging at San Diego fairgrounds settles
A lawsuit against the agency that runs the annual San Diego County Fair alleging bid rigging and other irregularities in an attempt to award a contract to run the fair’s midway has settled nearly three years after it was filed. The lawsuit from Talley Amusements, a company that provides...
Frustrated parents criticize South Bay Union’s private talks on school closures
The South Bay Union School District has yet to approve a plan to address its massive enrollment declines, and though officials have floated the idea of downsizing, any campus closures wouldn’t happen until at least 2025. But during a town hall this week to hear from the public, frustrated...
Port of San Diego offers few details on costly CEO investigation, exit
The Port of San Diego spent as much as $741,000 in legal costs and a severance payout to get rid of its top executive last year — and has never publicly explained why the agency ushered him out the door. Records that inewsource obtained show port officials authorized payment...
As injuries on border wall pile up, migrants face another barrier: emergency medical care
It was 9:55 p.m. when Mandy made the first call to 9-1-1. Peering between a few inches of space between the steel beams of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, she could see a man in his 30’s, cradling his broken arm. “His arm was just kind of dangling,” said Mandy,...
Marines ordered to close Camp Pendleton landfill after toxic runoff and failing infrastructure
The U.S. Marine Corps has closed a landfill at Camp Pendleton indefinitely pending repairs in response to a cease and desist order from water regulators, who cited years of environmental violations and contamination. Since early 2000, the Las Pulgas Landfill has faced multiple hurdles and violations while attempting to expand...
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