EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: LOCAL AND STATEWIDE NEWS

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February 11, 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:

LOCAL/REGIONAL

STATE

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LOCAL/REGIONAL



Burnham in a rush for U-T San Diego takeover (SD Reader)

Political plum may be up for grabs as mogul maneuvers for charity change 

Rail partners face federal inquiry (U-T)

Federal authorities are gathering documents and conducting interviews about the company that was granted a 99-year lease by the Metropolitan Transit System to operate the Desert Line railroad and the circumstances surrounding how the lease was granted. The inquiries by the U.S. attorney’s office in San Diego involve agents from the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service criminal investigations division.

Meeting links CPUC probe to San Onofre (U-T)

Edison discloses it met at luxury hotel in Poland with former regulator.

Supes curb GOP with elephant in room (UT San Diego)

Where are San Diego Republicans, it seems, and then there are Republicans. Who administers this deep DNA test? The Republican Party. Yes, parties form to support candidates. Job One.But bad blood can spurt when primaries draw qualified Republicans — and party insiders choose one.

San Diego Gangs Outsourcing Pimping Duties To Women (KPBS)

The women serve as enforcers who still turn tricks — but they reap none of the profits and are used to shield pimps from police scrutiny.

The other Anderson-Jacob feud (UT San Diego)

State Sen. Joel Anderson’s effort to oust county Supervisor Dianne Jacob may be the marquee local race in 2016, but the real bitter grudge match will play out below the surface.

Sempra in Mexico (Voice of San Diego series):

The Mexican Businessman Who Drives Lambos, Peddles Spy Gear and Started a War With Sempra

The Fall of José Susumo Azano Matsura

Sempra’s Shady Road to Dominance in Mexico

The Politician Who Gave Sempra Mexico

 

STATE

At U.C. Davis, Students for Justice in Palestine chant "Allahu Akbar," endorse terrorism (Washington Free Beacon)

 Anti-Israel activists at the University of California, Davis heckled Jewish students and shouted “Allahhu Akbar” at them during a vote last week on a resolution endorsing a boycott of the Jewish state… Following the vote, which was championed by the pro-Hamas group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), unknown vandals spray-painted swastikas on a fraternity house belonging to the Jewish AEPi organization.  Additionally, Azka Fayyaz, a member of the U.C. Davis student senate, posted on her Facebook page a triumphant message following the vote: “Hamas & Sharia law have taken over UC Davis.”

CA bill would limit police searches of smartphones (UT San Diego)

Lawmaker says California is "in the dark ages" on digital privacy protection.

Measles outbreak spurs new action in California, New Mexico (Reuters)

Students at all 10 campuses of the University of California will be required to be screened for tuberculosis and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella and other diseases under a new health plan set to take effect in 2017, the university said on Friday.

California lawmakers seek to end 'personal belief' vaccine exemptions (Reuters)

Responding to an outbreak of measles that has infected more than 100 people, two California lawmakers said on Wednesday they would introduce egislation to end the right of parents in the state to exempt their children from school vaccinations based on personal beliefs.

Peevey urged PG&E to lobby Jerry Brown, but warned, ‘You will miss Arnold’ (SacBee)

Within days of Gov. Jerry Brown taking office in January 2011, Michael Peevey, then president of the California Public Utilities Commission, told a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executive that he was right to worry about regulatory changes the Democratic governor might usher in.

A legal use of power: parties funnel millions to California candidates (SacBee)

… Fourteen years after voters approved a measure that imposed candidate contribution limits for the first time, the pipeline of money between donors, political party committees and far-flung candidates in competitive races continues to grow.

 


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