Teachers, staff, and parents of students at Gompers Preparatory Academy in San Diego say they fear that the return of a labor union after a 16-year hiatus will lead the school back down the path to gang violence, deplorable learning conditions, and poor academic performance. Gompers was put on the state’s watch list of underperforming…
Community Fears School Union’s Return Could Bring Back Gangs, Violence
Double Amputee Dog Rescued From Abusive Home Adopted by Police Officer Who Lost Leg in Crash
A San Diego police officer who became an amputee in 2013 gained a kindred spirit when he adopted a 9-year-old Shih Tzu who is an amputee, too. Detective Chappie Hunter of the San Diego Police Department lost his left leg in a motorcycle crash, and when he returned to work, he had a prosthetic leg….
California Cities Rush to Provide Relief to Renters
June 9, 2021
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California’s eviction moratorium for renters is set to expire June 30, but some cities and counties are passing emergency ordinances to extend the prohibition of evictions. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on June 7 extended the city and county’s moratorium on evictions until September. Its ordinance seeks to extend the renter protection from evictions, non-payments of rent, and…
Home Inventory Remains Low in Strange Start to Home-Buying Season
May 25, 2021
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Commentary U.S. home prices continued to climb in March and have risen nearly 15 percent since the beginning of 2020. That is the takeaway of a U.S. housing market analysis by Standard & Poors, in conjunction with CoreLogic. The study was completed using a method advocated by Nobel-laureate Robert Schiller, which uses actual home price…
Suspected Smuggling Boat Captain Kneed Border Patrol Agent in Face: Authorities
SAN DIEGO—A man accused of piloting a boat overloaded with illegal immigrants that crashed into rocks off San Diego’s coast and killed three people kneed a U.S. Border Patrol agent in the face who was trying to put a leg shackle on him on the beach, authorities said. Investigators said in an affidavit filed Tuesday…
University of San Diego Ends Investigation on Professor Who Questioned CCP Virus Origin
University of San Diego (USD) said it will not punish a professor who has been under investigation in the past two months after writing in his personal blog about the Chinese regime’s role in the global pandemic. The investigation stemmed from a Mar. 10 blog post, in which USD law school professor Thomas Smith cited…
Captain of Suspected Human Smuggling Boat in Custody After Boat Overturns
The man who is suspected to have operated a suspected human smuggling vessel that overturned off the coast of San Diego was taken into custody. Authorities said that at least four people have died and more than 20 were hospitalized when the boat overturned Sunday. “Every indication from our perspective is that this was a…
3 Dead, 27 Injured After Suspected Human ‘Smuggling’ Boat Capsizes Near San Diego: Officials
At least three people died and 27 more were injured after a suspected smuggling boat capsized off Point Loma in San Diego on Sunday, authorities confirmed. Crew members pulled 25 people from the water, said the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department on Twitter earlier on Sunday. Officials said that 23 were injured and two died. Later, Jose…
California Mayors Seek $20 Billion for Homeless Funding
April 29, 2021
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LOS ANGELES—Mayor Eric Garcetti joined a coalition of mayors from California’s 13 largest cities April 29 in calling on state officials to provide cities with $20 billion over five years to address the statewide homeless crisis. “This is the biggest crisis in California. We see it on our underpasses and overpasses, we see it under…
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Home Prices up 12 Percent Year-Over-Year
Commentary Home prices in the U.S. increased in value during the past year at the fastest pace since the end of the 2006 real estate bubble that led to the Great Recession. Standard & Poors (S&P) compiled an index of home prices using an analytic framework developed by economic sciences Nobel laureate Robert Shiller and…