EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: LOCAL AND STATEWIDE NEWS

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June 2 ,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

Entire Borrego Springs Community Now Powered By Microgrid (KPBS)

The feat came during planned maintenance on SDG&E's power grid, when all 2,800 customers in the desert community in northeastern San Diego County were switched over to the 26-megawatt Borrego Solar facility.

 

92-Year-Old Becomes Oldest Woman to Finish Marathon (NBC San Diego)

A 92-year-old cancer survivor has become the oldest woman to finish a marathon.

 

Pension system returns to in-house CIO (U-T)

County pension trustees have reversed course on a six-year experiment with outsourcing their investment strategy, naming La Jolla finance expert Stephen Sexauer as their first in-house chief investment officer since 2009.

 

We’re Suing the City of Carson (Voice of SD)

In February, the Chargers revealed they were planning a new football stadium that would cost more than $1 billion to share with the Oakland Raiders in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson. Team officials said they’d been secretly negotiating with Carson leaders for at least a month prior to the announcement.  What did those negotiations consist of? Not a single email, text message, memo or anything on paper at all between the teams or the NFL and any elected official in Carson, according to city officials. .... We find this hard to believe. So we sued Carson on May 27, asking a court to compel the city to turn over any documents that might exist.

 

CPUC judge had backchannel talk (U-T)

Agency is tasked with impartial decision-making, but arbiter chatted with Edison about San Onofre.

 

San Diego County Brings Back Saturday Wedding Service (KPBS)

The county of San Diego will resume Saturday wedding ceremonies after the service was eliminated six years ago as a recession-era budget reduction.

 

Desal Deal Leaves San Diego With Extra Water in Drought (Voice of San Diego)

San Diego County water customers are about to see their water bills jump to pay for some of the most expensive water possible. At the same time, cheaper water is about to be set aside, unused, in a reservoir where some of it will evaporate.

 

Longtime residents will bear water conservation burden (San Diego Reader)

Despite drought, SANDAG says real estate development should continue.

 

SDG&E Wants Solar Customers to Pay Up (Voice of SD)

Solar companies in San Diego and elsewhere have long sold the technology as an investment that pays off for both the environment and pocketbooks. A trio of impending policy changes could collectively change the game.

 

San Diego’s infrastructure neglect makes drought even worse (UT San Diego)

 

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California Doctors, Dentists To Rally For Higher Medi-Cal Pay (KPBS)

 Medical office visit: $16. Teeth cleaning: $20. Those rates are what's prompting doctors, dentists and other providers to stage a rally Tuesday at the state capitol.

 

Civil-liberties bills to watch (U-T)

Some of the many bills introduced this session dealing with privacy and liberties. 

 

Court upholds Schwarzenegger reduction of Nunez prison sentence (Sac Bee)

A Sacramento appellate court ruled Tuesday that it was not illegal for former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to drastically reduce the prison term of Esteban Nunez, son of Fabian Nunez, former Assembly speaker and Schwarzenegger ally, without notifying the prosecutors and the crime victims, but it “could be seen as deserving of censure and grossly unjust.”

 

CPUC has tapped another defense lawyer (U-T)

Additional contract comes to light as legislature considers limits.

 

L.A. labor union leaders seek minimum wage exemption for firms with union workers (Los Angeles Times)

Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide minimum wage increase approved last week by the Los Angeles City Council, are advocating last-minute changes to the law that could create an exemption for companies with unionized workforces.

 

In Los Angeles, homeless camps are suddenly everywhere (APM Marketplace)

A recent count by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found that the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County rose 12 percent in the past two years.  That brings the total homeless population to about 44,000. More striking, the number of people living without shelter — out in the open — doubled.

 

Sacramento Report: The Other Housing Bills on the Block (Voice of San Diego)

....Right now, California’s “density bonus” law lets developers build more homes on a given property than are allowed by official zoning if the developer agrees to build a certain amount of homes for low- and very low-income residents. AB 744 would get rid of minimum parking requirements for projects that take advantage of the density bonus law and are within a half-mile of a transit stop or are reserved for seniors or special needs residents.

 

California Panel Mandates Low-Water Lawns On New Buildings (KPBS)

California regulators voted Friday to limit how much water can be used to irrigate lawns on new and renovated buildings.

 


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