Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | The intersection of Euclid and University avenues is starting to vibrate again with car engines and waves of rap music rumbling under conversations in Chinese, Cambodian, Thai, African dialects, Spanish, English and Arabic.A young Latina mom walks her toddler down the sun-baked sidewalk. A Black man jogs by White hipsters in sunglasses. A Muslim couple in traditional dress strolls down the block as two Asian kids on bikes weave into traffic. Fear of the virus and government social-distancing orders kept many San Diegans like these at home...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | The intersection of Euclid and University avenues is starting to vibrate again with car engines and waves of rap music rumbling under conversations in Chinese, Cambodian, Thai, African dialects, Spanish, English and Arabic.A young Latina mom walks her toddler down the sun-baked sidewalk. A Black man jogs by White hipsters in sunglasses. A Muslim couple in traditional dress strolls down the block as two Asian kids on bikes weave into traffic. Fear of the virus and government social-distancing orders kept many San Diegans like these at home...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement A state court has struck down a San Diego County plan to allow housing developers to buy their way around restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions from new vehicle traffic using so-called carbon offsets.The 4th District Court of Appeal in San Diego issued its on Friday in response to a lawsuit brought by the Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Climate Action Campaign and other environmental groups.Specifically, the three-judge panel’s decision tossed out the county’s latest adopted — the sixth such ruling...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement A state court has struck down a San Diego County plan to allow housing developers to buy their way around restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions from new vehicle traffic using so-called carbon offsets.The 4th District Court of Appeal in San Diego issued its on Friday in response to a lawsuit brought by the Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Climate Action Campaign and other environmental groups.Specifically, the three-judge panel’s decision tossed out the county’s latest adopted — the sixth such ruling...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A group calling itself We Have Rights has recently started organizing large back-to-work protests throughout California, calling on state and local leaders to end social distancing orders aimed at slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus.The group, which popped up in just the last two weeks, has a professional-looking and a growing presence, which provide details for upcoming events, instructions for dealing with the media and highly produced Instagram videos, as well as T-shirts and other branded merchandise for sale.It also has...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A group calling itself We Have Rights has recently started organizing large back-to-work protests throughout California, calling on state and local leaders to end social distancing orders aimed at slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus.The group, which popped up in just the last two weeks, has a professional-looking and a growing presence, which provide details for upcoming events, instructions for dealing with the media and highly produced Instagram videos, as well as T-shirts and other branded merchandise for sale.It also has...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement County Supervisor Jim Desmond said this week on a conservative podcast critical of California’s stay-home orders that the San Diego region has only had “six pure, solely coronavirus deaths.”The comment, which was made Tuesday on the Armstrong & Getty Extra Large Interviews, suggested that all but six of the region’s roughly 190 deaths should be somewhat discounted because patients had underlying health conditions. “We’ve unfortunately had six pure, solely coronavirus deaths — six out of 3.3 million people,”...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement County Supervisor Jim Desmond said this week on a conservative podcast critical of California’s stay-home orders that the San Diego region has only had “six pure, solely coronavirus deaths.”The comment, which was made Tuesday on the Armstrong & Getty Extra Large Interviews, suggested that all but six of the region’s roughly 190 deaths should be somewhat discounted because patients had underlying health conditions. “We’ve unfortunately had six pure, solely coronavirus deaths — six out of 3.3 million people,”...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Paul Jablonski, the CEO of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, died Sunday, agency officials announced. He was 67.Jablonski, who had a 40-year career in transit, joined MTS in 2004. Before coming to San Diego, he spent 10 years leading the regional transit authority in Cincinnati, Ohio, according to his LinkedIn profile.“We are shocked and saddened about the passing of Paul,” said MTS Board Chair Nathan Fletcher in a statement. “He was a good man who not only ran a great agency but was a respected national...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Paul Jablonski, the CEO of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, died Sunday, agency officials announced. He was 67.Jablonski, who had a 40-year career in transit, joined MTS in 2004. Before coming to San Diego, he spent 10 years leading the regional transit authority in Cincinnati, Ohio, according to his LinkedIn profile.“We are shocked and saddened about the passing of Paul,” said MTS Board Chair Nathan Fletcher in a statement. “He was a good man who not only ran a great agency but was a respected national...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Hundreds of people from across Southern California descended on Pacific Beach Sunday, dismissing government warnings about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and demanding that businesses be allowed to reopen.The rally was the latest in a series of events across the country, attended largely by supporters of President Donald Trump. A similar but much smaller event was also held Sunday in Imperial Beach. On Saturday, between 75 and 100 people gathered at a rally against beach closures in Encinitas and three people...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Hundreds of people from across Southern California descended on Pacific Beach Sunday, dismissing government warnings about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and demanding that businesses be allowed to reopen.The rally was the latest in a series of events across the country, attended largely by supporters of President Donald Trump. A similar but much smaller event was also held Sunday in Imperial Beach. On Saturday, between 75 and 100 people gathered at a rally against beach closures in Encinitas and three people...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | Only the security guards were there to greet Hasan Ikhrata on Thursday morning in the lobby of Wells Fargo Plaza downtown, where San Diego’s premiere regional transportation planning agency is headquartered.Several flights up, Ikhrata walked into an empty room, labeled Vision Lab, wearing a surgical mask and his signature pinstripe suit. Five months ago, he would’ve been greeted by dozens of planners and data experts, feverishly poring over maps and computer models.Today, Ikhrata’s nearly two-year-old campaign to revolutionize San Diego with...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | Only the security guards were there to greet Hasan Ikhrata on Thursday morning in the lobby of Wells Fargo Plaza downtown, where San Diego’s premiere regional transportation planning agency is headquartered.Several flights up, Ikhrata walked into an empty room, labeled Vision Lab, wearing a surgical mask and his signature pinstripe suit. Five months ago, he would’ve been greeted by dozens of planners and data experts, feverishly poring over maps and computer models.Today, Ikhrata’s nearly two-year-old campaign to revolutionize San Diego with...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement San Diegans will undoubtedly head to the ocean this weekend as temperatures warm — but not in Imperial Beach. Sewage spilling over from Tijuana forced officials on Friday to completely the city’s shoreline yet again.The move comes less than a week after Baja officials said repairs were completed to a broken water pump in the Tijuana River, which had allowed tens of millions of gallons of sewage-tainted water to escape capture starting in late March.AdvertisementReports of the putrid smell have been flooding in from...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement San Diegans will undoubtedly head to the ocean this weekend as temperatures warm — but not in Imperial Beach. Sewage spilling over from Tijuana forced officials on Friday to completely the city’s shoreline yet again.The move comes less than a week after Baja officials said repairs were completed to a broken water pump in the Tijuana River, which had allowed tens of millions of gallons of sewage-tainted water to escape capture starting in late March.AdvertisementReports of the putrid smell have been flooding in from...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement A controversial and unprecedented land deal that would have allowed a housing development on 219 acres of ecologically prized land in San Diego County was defeated Tuesday.The California Wildlife Conservation Board voted five to one, with its chairman Chuck Bonham abstaining, to deny a proposed land exchange between the state and developer group GDCI Proctor Valley, L.P.The swap — which would have netted the Department of Fish and Wildlife about 339 acres of nearby undeveloped land and put another 191 acres under a...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement A controversial and unprecedented land deal that would have allowed a housing development on 219 acres of ecologically prized land in San Diego County was defeated Tuesday.The California Wildlife Conservation Board voted five to one, with its chairman Chuck Bonham abstaining, to deny a proposed land exchange between the state and developer group GDCI Proctor Valley, L.P.The swap — which would have netted the Department of Fish and Wildlife about 339 acres of nearby undeveloped land and put another 191 acres under a...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Normally, sitting on the California Wildlife Conservation Board is a feel-good job, mostly consisting of unanimously approving millions in state dollars to protect natural habitats, from mountain meadows in Lassen County to lagoons in Newport Beach.That’s why it was so jarring when the seven-member board a few months ago to allow the construction of an opulent housing development on 219 acres of ecologically prized San Diego County land — pristine coastal sage scrub that’s home to the federally endangered Quino...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement Normally, sitting on the California Wildlife Conservation Board is a feel-good job, mostly consisting of unanimously approving millions in state dollars to protect natural habitats, from mountain meadows in Lassen County to lagoons in Newport Beach.That’s why it was so jarring when the seven-member board a few months ago to allow the construction of an opulent housing development on 219 acres of ecologically prized San Diego County land — pristine coastal sage scrub that’s home to the federally endangered Quino...WW…