October 11, 2012  --  (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

• San Diego’s Bilbray-Peters race reflects new reality in politics (Los Angeles Times)
• Gas stations close as California gas prices skyrocket (KPBS)
• Edison releases restart plan for unit 2 at San Onofre (KPBS)
• Mayoral debate at Politifest: Videos (Voice of San Diego)
• The Starting Line: UT San Diego’s Soviet-style political coverage. Are air-brushed photos next? (San Diego Free Press)
• The Starting Life: DeMaio’s second calendar: private meetings with developers don’t count (San Diego Free Press)
• Filner’s shaky public safety claim (Voice of San Diego)
• Neighbors (in Lakeside) still shaken by deputies’ shootout with suspect (UT San Diego)
• Pastors to send IRS message on political speech (UT San Diego
• Skyline pastor tells flock he will vote for Romney (UT San Diego)
• Proposal to double city funding on arts moves toward City Council (KPBS)
• A guide to the media attention on Poway’s billion dollar bond (Voice of San Diego)
• North County Times lays off one-third of staff (Sacramento Bee)

STATE

• Brown acts to reduce gas prices (Los Angeles Times)
• Proposition 34: Repealing the death penalty (Sacramento Bee)
• Report: recycling fraud costs California millions (Sacramento Bee)
• UCAN demands $474K from ex-boss  (UT San Diego)
• California’s new migrants following the work (UT San Diego)

Read more for excerpts and links to full stories.

 
By   Charlotte Reed

• Brown Bag “Lunch and Learn” on GUHSD boundary changes Feb. 25
• Is the grass greener?
• Scam alert 

March 20, 2011 (San Diego)--The San Diego Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning consumers about a new identity theft scam involving phony e-mails supposedly from the federal government’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The phishing e-mails are requesting personal information from a W-2 form that are prepared by employers.

May 17th deadline looms for non-profits to file returns

May 11, 2010 (San Diego) Congressman Bob Filner (D-San Diego) advises charities in San Diego and Imperial Counties that they could be threatened by a rule requiring organizations to file a yearly return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to keep their non-profit status. Organizations that go three years without filing an annual return will automatically lose tax-exempt status.

East County Magazine found that 1,525 nonprofits in San Diego County are listed as “at risk” of losing their tax-exempt status, including many in East County. The list includes youth sports booster clubs, service clubs, faith-based organizations, groups helping seniors or the disabled, and even such stalwart long-time organizations as a local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter. To view those at risk in our area, see: http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/PubApps/990search.php.