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July 23, 2014 (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:
LOCAL
- VA San Diego nurses call for improved patient care (KPBS)
- More Refugee Girls Are College Bound, Flipping the Cultural Script (Voice of SD)
- Lemon Grove nixes raises in salary, car allowance (UT San Diego)
- Man who fired homemade cannon that exploded, killing girlfriend, talks to 10 News (10 News)
- San Diego Home Prices Rise While Sales Slip Nearly 8% (KPBS)
- Nonviolent offenders charged with violent crimes (UT San Diego)
- Business improvement districts fees upheld in court ruling (UT San Diego)
- Local Fishermen Land the Big One: a Dockside Market (Voice of San Diego)
- La Mesa Politics: Candidates filing now for council, mayor (La Mesa Today)
STATE
- State alert system would target drivers in hit-and-run collisions (SacBee)
- California Supreme Court nomination a ‘statement’ to U.S. (SFGate)
- 5 men sue over anti-terror info-sharing program (SacBee)
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LOCAL
VA San Diego nurses call for improved patient care (KPBS)
Registered nurses at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in La Jolla held a press conferences Wednesday to recommend changes that they say would improve service for veterans. The VA has recently come under fire for service delays that have resulted in deaths at other VA medical center locations.
More Refugee Girls Are College Bound, Flipping the Cultural Script (Voice of SD)
In Somalia, where her family comes from, girls were much less likely to go to school than boys. Here in the United States, Somali girls attending San Diego city schools are surpassing their male counterparts academically.
Lemon Grove nixes raises in salary, car allowance (UT San Diego)
The City Council will continue to receive a $705 monthly salary and $150 car allowance.
Man who fired homemade cannon that exploded, killing girlfriend, talks to 10 News (10 News)
The man who admitted to killing his girlfriend with a homemade cannon spoke with 10News Tuesday evening.
San Diego Home Prices Rise While Sales Slip Nearly 8% (KPBS)
The median price of a San Diego County home was $450,000 last month, up from $416,500 in June 2013, according to a recent report.
Nonviolent offenders charged with violent crimes (UT San Diego)
Having completed his time in prison, Mahad Ahmed was released earlier this year and returned to San Diego County. Based on his most recent conviction — a 2012 burglary — the 23-year-old documented gang member was considered a lower-level offender, who the law required to be supervised by county authorities instead of state parole. Less than five months later, Ahmed is back behind bars, charged with murder.
Business improvement districts fees upheld in court ruling (UT San Diego)
Attorney Cory Briggs, representing the San Diegans for Open Government group, challenged the system, saying all voters, not just businesses, should vote on these fees. He requested a preliminary injunction to stop the collection of the assessments and refund what has been collected previously. But Superior Court Judge Ronald Prager ruled against the injunction, saying Briggs is unlikely to win if the issue proceeds to trial.
Local Fishermen Land the Big One: a Dockside Market (Voice of San Diego)
Less than one month after we wrote about a group of local commercial fishermen’s struggle to secure a seafood market of their own, County Supervisor Greg Cox and Unified Port of San Diego Chairman Bob Nelson announced Wednesday that permits have been issued, and San Diego’s Tuna Harbor Dockside Market will open for business on Fish Harbor Pier Aug. 2.
La Mesa Politics: Candidates filing now for council, mayor (La Mesa Today)
The first major deadline of the fall campaign season arrived this week and all but one of the candidates who have been talking about running have followed through.
STATE
State alert system would target drivers in hit-and-run collisions (SacBee)
The driver of the minivan that hit bicyclist Damian Kevitt in Griffith Park last year never slowed down, even as Kevitt's leg was crushed and he was dragged 600 feet down a highway onramp.
California Supreme Court nomination a ‘statement’ to U.S. (SFGate)
As a boy, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar walked 7 miles each way from his home in Mexico to a school in Texas. On Tuesday, Cuéllar, a Harvard graduate and Stanford law professor, was nominated by Gov. Jerry Brown to the California Supreme Court. If confirmed, he will be the court's first Latino justice since 2011 and its first Latino immigrant.
5 men sue over anti-terror info-sharing program (SacBee)
Five California men who say they came under police scrutiny for innocent behavior sued the Obama administration Thursday over an information-sharing program designed by the federal government to help flag potential terrorist activity in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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