EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: LOCAL AND STATEWIDE NEWS

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September 11, 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/REGIONAL

STATE

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LOCAL/REGIONAL

Victory! San Onofre settlement deemed unfair (San Diego Reader)

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today (September 5) said that the proposal that would bill ratepayers $3.3 billion for the closing of the San Onofre nuclear plant must be revised. "The proposed formula favors utilities," says a statement from the commission. This is a victory for San Diego attorney Mike Aguirre and activist Ray Lutz, who were prominent voices arguing that the proposed deal was a consumer ripoff.

New Map Details Fire Risk for San Diego County Residents (NBC San Diego) -- San Diego County officials have released a new map showing the areas most at risk for a wildfire.

The art center aims to connect community with artist (Ramona Sentinel)

This fall sees the opening of the The Art Center in Ramona, where everything from traditional to expressive art will be explored.

Water theft dooms volunteer fire department  (UT San Diego)

San Pasqual Fire Department to be dissolved by the county next week

San Diego’s Business Exodus Is Really a People Exodus (Voice of SD) -- San Diego’s not facing a business exodus as much as it is a people exodus – and the same trend holds for California. …A recent New York Times analysis found that California has transformed from a state where roughly 50 percent of residents originally hailed from elsewhere to one dominated by natives.

Former Charger Junior Seau’s family rejects NFL settlement offer (Santee Patch)

The family joined lawsuit filed by more than 4,500 former players after Seau shot himself in May 2012...

San Diego County Suicides Reach All-Time High (KPBS)

The number of San Diegans who committed suicide reached an all-time high in 2013.

STATE

Whaling ban seen as restoring blue whales in northeast Pacific (CS Monitor)

The population of blue whales off the US West Coast has rebounded to about 2,200, or 97 percent of their levels at the beginning of the 20th century, researchers estimate.

Study: water pumping made desert ground sink two feet (Desert Sun)

A new scientific report has determined that as groundwater pumping has led to declines in the Coachella Valley's aquifer, the surface of the ground sank by between nine inches and 2 feet from 1995 to 2010 in parts of Indian Wells, La Quinta and Palm Desert.

Napa earthquake shakes loose unknown groundwater (SacBee)

A major Northern California earthquake that caused an estimated $400 million in damage also unloosed torrents of groundwater that may help ease the region's drought.

Conservation groups snapped up large swaths of Sierra Nevada during recession (SacBee)

The catastrophic collapse in real estate prices that started in 2007 left more than a legacy of mass foreclosures in the Sacramento region; it also left vast expanses of newly preserved open space in the Sierra Nevada that the public can use for recreation.

California Wins Latest High Speed Rail Court Battle (KPBS)

California may be one step away from selling bonds for its High Speed Rail project. The California 3rd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday refused to grant a rehearing in a case challenging the use of bond funding to build High Speed Rail

Solar incentives reward west-facing panels (UT San Diego)

California is encouraging home builders to tilt solar panels toward afternoon sunlight.


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