EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: LOCAL AND STATEWIDE NEWS

October 24, 2018 (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

•  A Reader's Guide to the Local Ballot Measures (Voice of San Diego)
• Street project in LG late, with $845K deficit (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• What's At Stake For San Diego In Proposition 6 Gas Tax Vote (KPBS)
• Toby the T-Rex: East County's Cardiff Kook? (San Diego Union-Tribune)
•  San Diego rescinds tough Airbnb regulations (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Drivers Ed Helps Women Refugees Navigate Road To Self-Sufficiency (KPBS)

STATE

• California Rolling Forward With Pot Delivery Regulations (KQED/AP)
• West’s rivers are hot enough to cook salmon to death. Will this court ruling keep them cool? (Sacramento Bee)
•  Schnur: ‘One of the greatest’ or missed opportunities? California Influencers assess Jerry Brown (Sacramento Bee)
•  California has lost more than half a million jobs to China — more than any other state, report says (Los Angeles Times)

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LOCAL

A Reader's Guide to the Local Ballot Measures (Voice of San Diego)

From pot taxes to school bonds to the future of Mission Valley, San Diego voters have a lot of big decisions to make. Here’s a study guide.

What's At Stake For San Diego In Proposition 6 Gas Tax Vote (KPBS)

Proposition 6, a measure to repeal last year's increase to the state gas tax, could be one of the most consequential issues on the November ballot. The measure could ease the direct cost of car ownership, but would also eliminate billions in new transportation funding.

Street project in LG late, with $845K deficit (San Diego Union-Tribune)

A multimillion-dollar street alignment project in Lemon Grove finally opened to traffic last week. Moms pushed babies in strollers on a new sidewalk near the Citronica housing complex as cars navigated their ways along a new path off state Route 94 at Lemon Grove Avenue. The Lemon Grove Avenue Realignment Project, which was a decade in the making, closed streets and diverted traffic for more than a year during construction. But even while the area is open to pedestrians and vehicles, there is more work ahead — and more money that needs to be taken from the city’s general fund reserves to finish the project.

Toby the T-Rex: East County's Cardiff Kook? (San Diego Union-Tribune)

The 8-foot-tall bronze replica of a dinosaur has been living large for more than a month among scattered weeds on a vacant dirt lot in the hills on the west side of La Mesa. Now, he is apparently getting ready for Halloween. 

San Diego rescinds tough Airbnb regulations, reopening debate on how to rein in short-term rentals (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Faced with a referendum seeking to repeal San Diego’s new restrictions on short-term rentals, the City Council did just that on Monday, but left open the question of how it will regulate home sharing in the future.

Drivers Ed Helps Women Refugees Navigate Road To Self-Sufficiency (KPBS)

The Women at the Wheel initiative from Syrian Community Network San Diego covers training to help them earn their license for the first time and therefore a little independence.

STATE

California Rolling Forward With Pot Delivery Regulations (KQED/AP)

California has moved a step closer to allowing marijuana deliveries in communities that have banned retail sales of the drug as regulators rebuffed cities and police chiefs who are opposed to the rule.

West’s rivers are hot enough to cook salmon to death. Will this court ruling keep them cool? (Sacramento Bee)

It might be the most gruesome element of the drought conditions that have gripped the West in recent years: salmon being cooked to death by the thousands in rivers that have become overheated as water flows dwindle. Now a federal judge in Seattle has directed to Environmental Protection Agency, in a ruling with implications for California and the Pacific Northwest, to find a way to keep river waters cool.

Schnur: ‘One of the greatest’ or missed opportunities? California Influencers assess Jerry Brown (Sacramento Bee)

It was just 2,286 weeks ago that Jerry Brown was first elected governor of California. Californians will soon elect a new leader and say goodbye to Brown, who will have served an unprecedented 16 years since 1975.

California has lost more than half a million jobs to China — more than any other state, report says (Los Angeles Times)

California has lost more jobs to China than any other state since 2001, fueled by Silicon Valley outsourcing and the continued shrinking of Southern California’s apparel industry, according to a report released Tuesday by a Washington, D.C., think tank. / Some 562,500 jobs were displaced in the Golden State, the equivalent of a 3.34% share of California’s total employment….