EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: LOCAL AND STATEWIDE NEWS

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May 11, 2016, 2016 (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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For excerpts and links to full stories, click “read more” and scroll down.

LOCAL

School district offers money to parent of bullied student – if she  keeps quiet and sends her kids away (Voice of San Diego)

Shelly Monroe submitted a complaint to the Santee School District, saying her children were racially harassed and asking the district to bus her children to San Diego. At first, the district told her there were no available funds to meet her demand, she said. But once her story got out, the district offered to compensate Monroe to drive the kids out of town for school.

Hunter’s campaign spent on groceries, gas (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Expenses including Disneyland and Jack and the Box are not typical of congressional colleagues

Faulconer’s 911 response leaves San Diego on hold (San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego has a pressing emergency with 911. The state standard is to answer 911 calls within 10 seconds 90 percent of the time. San Diego answered at an 81 percent rate in 2015 and it’s getting worse; in April 2015, the call center picked up within 10 seconds 86 percent of the time. Last month, 67 percent. Yet instead of announcing a real solution this week, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s announced five-pronged approach was short on specifics and didn’t even characterize this as a crisis — even though people have been on hold for several minutes at a time following home invasions and last month an infant bitten by the family dog died after his parents drove him to the hospital following unsuccessful 911 calls…

I-15 turns into computer highway to hell (Escondido Grapevine)

How did the brand spanking-new, 10-day-old, $10 million I-15 “Integrated Corridor Management System” work Tuesday in its first true test dealing with massive freeway traffic due to an unforeseen traffic event?  Failed. Miserably.

San Diego County’s methane problem visible for first time (KPBS)

For the first time, it’s possible to visualize where powerful, invisible methane gas hovers over the landscape of San Diego County.

Aguirre sues governor over records (San Diego Reader)

Corruption rife between Brown, attorney general, utilities commission?

San Diego Aims To Broaden Ban On Synthetic Drug 'Spice' (KPBS)

With San Diego experiencing a spike in emergency calls related to spice use, the city attorney is looking to use chemistry to ban any substances that cause a specific reaction in the brain.http://feedpress.me/13288/3259921.gif

Turko Files: Doesn't Show Up! (KUSI)

Some east county parents called KUSI's Michael Turko about their kid's school bus. Turko says the bus has been playing hooky with little or no warning at all. 

Helix students maced by 10th-grader (San Diego Union-Tribune)

A 10th-grade Helix Charter School student upset over a social media posting maced about 10 other students in the school library Wednesday and later was arrested, La Mesa police said.

San Diego County’s Methane Problem Visible For First Time (KPBS)

For the first time, it’s possible to visualize where powerful, invisible methane gas hovers over the landscape of San Diego County.

SDSU controversy: In defense of free speech (U-T Editorial Board)

Are some students more in need of "safe spaces" on campus than others?

Doug Manchester among selected Trump delegates from San Diego (SD Rostra)

Congressmen Duncan Hunter and Darrell Issa, State Senator Joel Anderson, and former San Diego Union-Tribune Publisher and real estate developer Doug Manchester are included on the list of Donald Trump delegates to this summer’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Here’s the link to the entire list of California delegates…

 

STATE

San Andreas Fault 'locked, loaded and ready to roll' with big earthquake, expert says (Los Angeles Times)

Southern California’s section of the San Andreas Fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” a leading earthquake scientist said Wednesday at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach.

Brown looks to create new CPUC division (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Gov. Jerry Brown wants to create a $1.7 million safety division in the CPUC.

Public Utilities Commission expansion? Not so fast (U-T Editorial Board)

It takes gall to seek to expand while wasting millions on dubious legal fees.

Assembly buries Aliso Canyon relief bill deemed “job killer” (Sacramento Bee)

Following late-blooming resistance from business groups, a bill giving Porter Ranch residents more tools to seek legal redress for a gas leak fell far short in the California Assembly on Thursday.

 

Cost of Porter Ranch disaster doubles (San Diego Union-Tribune)

The costs associated with the Porter Ranch natural gas leak have nearly doubled in less than three months.

 

California Assembly Passes Gender-Neutral Restrooms Bill (KPBS)

The legislation, which would require all single-person public restrooms to be gender neutral, now moves to the state Senate, where it must pass before going to Gov. Jerry Brown.

 

Journalism group seeks release of license-plate data (San Diego Union-Tribune)

The Society of Professional Journalists and a host of other public-interest and media groups have weighed in on a high-profile public-records case now being considered by the California Supreme Court.


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