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April 24, 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
- Why more people leave than enter San Diego (SD Reader - Don Bauder)
- Senator’s stance [Joel Anderson] sparks schoolyard fight (UT San Diego)
- San Diego rallies around Tony Gwynn (UT San Diego)
- Nuke settlement to cost customers $3.3B (UT San Diego)
- Woman files lawsuit against Filner, city (UT San Diego)
- Iconic La Mesa auto dealer, Joseph Drew, dies at 74 (La Mesa Courier)
STATE
- Admission rates fall at UC campuses as international presence grows (SacBee)
- CalPERS adopts $459 million pension rate hike (SacBee)
- California’s affirmative action ban bolstered by Supreme Court ruling (San Jose Mercury News)
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LOCAL
Why more people leave than enter San Diego (SD Reader - Don Bauder)
… The county’s cost of living (groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous) is 29.2 percent higher than the nation’s, according to the cost-of-living index published quarterly by a research organization that goes by the acronym ACCRA. But San Diegans’ median household income is only 12.3 percent above the nation’s. Result: very high living costs, moderate incomes…a huge gap between money in and money out for most households.
Senator’s stance sparks schoolyard fight (UT San Diego)
Joel Anderson removed from key committee after defying leadership
San Diego rallies around Tony Gwynn (UT San Diego)
Prayers for Tony Gwynn piled up like all his hits as San Diegans learned the Padres star turned Aztecs baseball coach was taking a break from coaching to regain his strength after cancer treatments.
Nuke settlement to cost customers $3.3B (UT San Diego)
Nuclear-plant settlement leaves $3.3 billion customer bill; negotiators hail savings
Woman files lawsuit against Filner, city (UT San Diego)
A woman who said she was groped and subjected to sexual advances from former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has filed a lawsuit against the city.
Iconic La Mesa auto dealer, Joseph Drew, dies at 74
Joseph Drew, the entrepreneur who took his family's La Mesa auto dealership from a mom-and-pop business and turned it into one of the top-selling Ford retailers in the country, died …
STATE
Admission rates fall at UC campuses as international presence grows (SacBee)
Even as the University of California accepted a record number of freshman for fall 2014, admission rates at its most selective campuses reached new lows. Huge increases in the number of applicants, changing admissions processes and a growing emphasis on out-of-state and international students are driving them down
CalPERS adopts $459 million pension rate hike (SacBee)
CalPERS approved nearly a half-billion dollars in pension contribution rate increases Wednesday.
California’s affirmative action ban bolstered by Supreme Court ruling (San Jose Mercury News)
California's 16-year-old affirmative action ban is lodged more firmly than ever in state law after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday shut off further court challenges in states that have enacted such bans. By upholding a Michigan law nearly identical to California's, the ruling left only a legislative -- or ballot initiative -- route for allowing racial and gender preferences in public college admissions, contracts and hiring.
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