EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: LOCAL AND STATEWIDE NEWS

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East County News Service

December 13, 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:

LOCAL

STATE

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LOCAL

San Diego’s homeless senior population has more than doubled (Voice of San Diego)

Teri Petersen never thought she’d end up living on the street. The petite 65-year-old worked for years. She’s a former PTA president. Yet there she was on a rainy day this September, confronting a reality she’d never imagined for the second time in a few years.

San Diego City Council offers Chargers lease deal in stadium saga (10 News)

Four members of the San Diego City Council are proposing that the Qualcomm Stadium site be leased to the Chargers for $1 in "one last concerted effort"' to keep the team in San Diego.

Casa de Oro working group to revitalize local community (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Businesses and residents in Casa de Oro are using a grassroots group effort to turn their pocket community in Spring Valley into a safer, more livable area.

La Mesa Live (La Mesa Today)

“Real Talk La Mesa” is a live on air show hosted by La Mesa resident Jack Rowell.  Usually airing on Thursday mornings on ESPN 1700 AM from 11am to Noon,

How Jehovah’s Witnesses Leaders Hide Child Abuse Secrets at All Costs (KPBS)

One Jehovah’s Witness sexually abused at least seven children in San Diego congregations in the ’80s and ’90s. Leaders knew but did not report him to law enforcement, according to testimony by congregation elders. Instead, they promoted him.

STATE

A problem 'too big to ignore' — how years of congressional wrangling led to a water compromise  (Los Angeles Times)

Few people expected a California water fight in the final days of a lame-duck Congress, and fewer still expected landmark water legislation to pit the state’s U.S. senators against each other ... It took years of negotiations, and the right political timing, to bring the first major water policy affecting California in decades through the House and Senate. Over frayed feelings and filibuster threats, both chambers overwhelmingly passed the bill, which changes how much water is pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to San Joaquin Valley farmers and Southern California… Boxer…was apoplectic. The changes to the amount of water allowed to be pulled from the Delta were an unacceptable end run around the Endangered Species Act and would have dire consequences for salmon fishermen, she said.

California’s child vaccination law faces another legal challenge  (East Bay Times)

Opponents of a new California state law requiring nearly all schoolchildren to be fully vaccinated have mounted another legal challenge — this time, setting the science of immunization aside and focusing on constitutional rights.

California to investigate Prudential insurance policies sold through Wells Fargo (Los Angeles Times)

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced an investigation Monday into the sale of Prudential insurance policies by Wells Fargo & Co., marking the first time the bank unauthorized accounts scandal has widened to include another institution. The decision came the same day the Newark, N.J., insurer suspended the sale of policies through Wells Fargo branches as it reviews a lawsuit filed last week by a trio of former Prudential employees. The plaintiffs say they were fired for refusing to cover up evidence that Wells Fargo workers sold Prudential policies to customers who did not want them.

Oakland warehouse fire leads to crackdown on illegal artist spaces around the country (Yahoo News)

The massive fire that tore through a converted warehouse in Oakland, killing 36 people in the deadliest blaze in the United States in more than a decade, has officials examining similar illegal spaces — and the artists who create, perform and, in many cases, live in them bracing for a crackdown.

 


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