EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER 2, 2011

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November 2,  2011 (San Diego's East County)--East County Roundup highlights articles on top regional and state issues of interest to East County and inland San Diego County, published in other media. This week’s top Roundup headlines include:

 

LOCAL
 
  • School closures curtailed; new borrowing idea floated (Voice of San Diego)
  • Sluggish growth expected for San Diego economy (KPBS)
  • East County Chaldeans launch TV lifeline (San Diego Union-Tribune)
  • Sex predator to live in Campo, judge says (San Diego Union-Tribune)
  • Merchants get a lesson in combating robberies (La Mesa Today)
  • Suggested manifesto for the Occupy movement (La Mesa Patch.com)
STATE
 
  • Local officials file initiative to protect future funding (Sacramento Bee)
  • California’s high-speed rail backers take steps to quiet critics (Sacramento Bee)


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School closures curtailed; new borrowing idea floated (Voice of San Diego)

November 2, 2011 --Judging from numerous public comments and a smattering of interviews held afterwards, many of the parents and teachers who left Tuesday night's San Diego Unified school board meeting felt not relief, nor joy, at learning their schools would not be closing, but rather disgust and fatigue.
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/public_safety/pavement/article_1f4cd8bc-0526-11e1-bd29-001cc4c03286.html
 
 
Sluggish growth expected for San Diego economy (KPBS)
October 31, 2011 -- The UCLA Anderson forecast says San Diego's economy is poised to do better next year, but the rate of growth will probably be small.
 
The report says jobs and housing will play a major part in how San Diego's economy performs next year. The region will add jobs, but not enough to bring the unemployment rate down. A weak job market will discourage new buyers from entering the housing market and sales of bank owned properties will keep prices low. Even so, the UCLA Anderson Forecast predicted the San Diego economy will grow in 2012.
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/oct/31/sluggish-growth-san-diego-economy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kpbs%2Flocal+%28KPBS+News%3A+Local+Headlines%29

East County Chaldeans launch TV lifeline (San Diego Union-Tribune)

October 24, 2011 -- A squat, little building south of El Cajon — near a nursery and a nunnery — has been transformed into a lifeline for one of the world’s oldest Christian communities.
What was once a parsonage at St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Cathedral is now the home of Kaldu.TV, an online media operation that was launched last year as a beacon for the far-flung Chaldean culture.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/24/east-county-chaldeans-launch-online-lifeline/

Sex predator to live in Campo, judge says (San Diego Union-Tribune)
October 27, 2011 -- A judge has ruled that a man classified as a sexually violent predator will be allowed to live under supervision in Campo upon his release from a state mental hospital.
The state announced at the end of August that Frank Johnson, a 53-year-old convicted rapist who is dying of brain cancer, will be placed in a house on Shockey Truck Trail in the rural East County community.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/27/sex-predator-live-campo-judge-says/

Merchants get a lesson in combating robberies (La Mesa Today)
November 1, 2011 -- In response to a recent string of armed robberies, La Mesa's new Police Chief Ed Aceves put out a call for local business owners to come in and talk about what they can do.
The business community responded.
More than 50 merchants gathered at the police station last night, drawing the attention of local TV stations, who watched as the business owners were briefed on the situation and given tips for helping combat the trend.
http://www.lamesatoday.com/profiles/blogs/crime-watch-794

Suggested manifesto for the Occupy movement (La Mesa Patch.com)

October 28, 2011 --(Ray LutzPublic agency watchdog, COPs) These are my ideas, not official statements from the movement.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is sweeping the nation and the world. It is the best thing I've seen in my lifetime, perhaps and hopefully resulting in some significant changes and "getting our country back."
There have been various lists of demands that is going around, discussions about how to make progress, and debate on what is important and what is not. I make this suggestion to organize the issues into four major categories.
http://lamesa.patch.com/blog_posts/suggested-manifesto-for-the-occupy-movement-progress-in-4-core-areas

STATE
Local officials file initiative to protect future funding (Sacramento Bee)
November 1, 2011 -- Counties and local law enforcement groups filed an initiative today that would require the state to continue paying them billions of dollars each year for new duties such as housing inmates and overseeing parolees.
The measure, dubbed the "Local Taxpayers, Public Safety and Local Services Protection Act of 2012," does not ask voters to raise taxes. It would enshrine a new arrangement in which California gives local governments a 1.06-cent share of the state sales tax, worth about $5.1 billion, as well as a portion of state vehicle taxes.
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/11/local-officials-file-initiative-to-protect-future-funding.html
 
California’s high-speed rail backers take steps to quiet critics (Sacramento Bee)
November 2, 2011 -- Even as they raised the estimated cost of high-speed rail in California to almost $100 billion over 20 years, the project's organizers on Tuesday were staging a comeback bid.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority, which came under criticism in the Legislature and appeared for months to be on the brink of collapse, cast the new cost estimate as a measure of its credibility.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/02/4023711/californias-high-speed-rail-backers.html

 


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