EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: LOCAL AND STATEWIDE NEWS

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December 29, 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:

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STATE

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LOCAL/REGIONAL

San Diego: No. 1 pleasant place in U.S. (UT San Diego)

Zillow uses climate to rank 25 best in America

Chiefs beat Chargers as both miss play-offs (UT San Diego)

The Kansas City Chiefs beat San Diego 19-7 on Sunday to eliminate the Chargers from playoff contention, moments before they were eliminated themselves by games happening elsewhere.

New brewery, entertainment center for La Mesa (La Mesa Today)

The family that has owned a declining Fletcher Parkway shopping center is about to turn things around -- in a big way.

San Diego Closes 40 Illegal Marijuana Dispensaries In December  (KPBS)

The city of San Diego announced today that it was granted court orders to shutter five illegal marijuana dispensaries.

Judge called Edison about San Onofre (UT San Diego)

Opponents of the San Onofre nuclear power plant shutdown deal are pointing to a judge’s telephone call to a Southern California Edison executive as evidence of collusion.

Authorities Warn Public After 4 Dead Birds Test Positive For West Nile Virus (KPBS)

One dead red-tailed hawk was found in Oceanside, and a Cooper's hawk and two ravens were collected in San Diego. All four tested positive for West Nile virus.

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Judge called Edison about San Onofre (UT)

Critics of settlement plan say the backchannel chat allowed for collusion.

Why every American should care about California’s Moonlight Fire case (Fox)

Question: What happens when lawyers uncover what could be explosive evidence of misconduct in a $122 million case by attorneys in the Department of Justice?  Answer: the Department of Justice tries to have all defense lawyers who have even read about the alleged government misconduct removed from the case and gagged from discussing what they know.

New faces at CPUC. But new broom unlikely (SD Reader, Don Bauder)

Governor Jerry Brown today (December 23) named two new commissioners to the scandal-ridden California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Long-time Sacramento public relations pro Michael Picker, who was named a commissioner in January of this year, will take over the presidency.

PG&E discloses more emails with state regulators (U-T)

California's largest power utility released a dozen more emails Monday that it said showed improper back-channel discussions between the utility and top state regulators.… / PG&E also said Monday it would turn over a total of 65,000 emails between the utility and state regulators to the commission by mid-February….

Lawmakers are getting way more gifts (UT)

Travel is the biggest driver of steep increase for legislators.  State lawmakers reported accepting $844,000 worth of gifts and travel in 2013, quite a leap from the $216,000 reported in 2012, according to a new report from the good-government advocacy group California Common Cause.

 


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