EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: LOCAL AND STATEWIDE NEWS

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December 8, 2015 (San Diego's East County) -- East County Roundup highlights top stories of interest to East County and San Diego’s inland regions, published in other media. This week’s top “Roundup” headlines include:

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LOCAL

San Diego Muslim community denounces Trump’s comments on ‘shutdown’ of Muslims entering U.S. (10 News)

A leader of San Diego's Muslim community Tuesday denounced Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump's call for a "shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States.

NFL to San Diego: Only Losers Hold Public Votes (Voice of San Diego)

The message NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell gave to San Diego leaders Wednesday was clear: If you want to keep the Chargers, you can’t have a public vote.

Just because somebody can make bail doesn’t make them safer  (Voice of San Diego)

As of Oct. 1, arraignment judges in San Diego County no longer receive risk-assessment reports on each defendant.

San Diego Pearl Harbor survivors recall the attack (KPBS)

Japanese assault on Hawaii 74 years ago propelled U.S. into World War II.

Principal Of High Performing San Diego School Credits Controversial Superintendent (KPBS)

A San Diego charter school was the top performing underprivileged school in the state on standardized tests last year. We wanted to know what's making the school tick and got a blast from the district's contentious past.

High Charges Lead San Diego County Schools To Battery Power (KPBS)

Electricity bills make up a significant share of the overall cost of running a school. That’s one of the reasons school districts in Poway and Escondido are looking at battery power.

STATE

Edison’s cost of corruption $16.7 million: return on corruption $3.3 billion (SD Reader)

In a decision yesterday (December 3), the California Public Utilities Commission fined Southern California Edison a piddling $16.7 million for not reporting an illegal, amoral, clandestine meeting it had in early 2013 with Michael Peevey, then president of the utilities commission, now under criminal investigation.

Exclusive: Accused California shooter lived in Saudi Arabia for years - Pakistani sources (Reuters)

Tashfeen Malik, one of the two accused shooters in the massacre in San Bernardino, California, moved with her family 25 years ago from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, where her father became "conservative and hard-line," a family member told Reuters on Friday.

In California, Aid Withers For People With Developmental Disabilities (NPR)

Surrounded by stacks of packages in a brightly lit room, Michael Palone gingerly folded a box and taped it shut. His eyes averted, he shuffled to the front of the warehouse to retrieve scissors, skirting by people and tables in his path.Palone, 26, has Asperger's and mild autism that makes it nearly impossible for him to socialize with others and adjust to the constant changes of a full time job.

‘Soft target’ terror comes to California? (San Diego Union-Tribune)

America is scarily vulnerable to mass slaughters.

Utility steps up efforts to plug massive California methane leak (Reuters)

The head of Southern California Gas Co said it would take at least three more months to plug a massive underground leak of natural gas that has been seeping into the air since mid-October and now accounts for a quarter of the state's entire methane emissions…The utility's latest strategy and time frame for addressing the stench of gas fumes that have sickened nearby residents for weeks and led to the temporary relocation of 200 families was laid out during a Los Angeles City Council hearing….SoCal Gas, one of the biggest gas utilities in the nation, is owned by San Diego-based Sempra Energy.

California man pleads guilty to seeking to join Islamic State (Reuters)

A California man has pleaded guilty to planning to join the Islamic State militant group in Syria, prosecutors said, and faces up to 15 years in prison.

Too hard for Californians to get into public universities: report (Reuters)

Insufficient funding and tighter admissions standards have made it too hard for California high school students to win admission to the state's public university system, a new report says.

Why rooftop solar advocates are upset about California’s clean energy law (L.A. Times)

California's aggressive push to increase renewable energy production comes with a catch for people with solar panels on the roof: You don't count. If a home or business has a rooftop solar system, most of the wattage isn't included in the ambitious requirement to generate half of the state's electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind by 2030, part of legislation signed in October by Gov. Jerry Brown. That means rooftop solar owners are missing out on a potentially lucrative subsidy that is paid to utilities and developers of big power projects.

 


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