A weekly guide to news and issues in South County San Diego. (Tuesdays )
South County Report: Water Agency Demands Retraction From Former Board Member
Lawyers for the Sweetwater Authority water agency are demanding that former authority board member Josie Calderon-Scott retract claims she made recently to Voice of San Diego that the authority knew about elevated levels of toxic industrial chemicals in its main reservoir years before alerting the public. But Calderon-Scott said she’s…
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South County Report: A Dream Come True
There is almost no place in South San Diego County where you cannot see Chula Vista’s new monument to civic pride and ambition. The Gaylord Pacific Hotel and Convention Center rises like an ocean liner from the southeastern shore of San Diego Bay. Twenty-two stories high, with 1,600 rooms, a…
Keep readingSouth County Report: Water Agency Toxic Chemicals Saga Continues
Late last year, the Sweetwater Authority water agency made a startling announcement: There were elevated levels of toxic industrial chemicals in the reservoir supplying much of southern San Diego County’s drinking water. Agency officials said they discovered the chemicals in October during a federally mandated round of testing at the…
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South County Report: No Love (Yet) For Electric Trucks
Environmental ideals and corporate ambition ran smack into political reality last week when representatives from the Port of San Diego and a national electric vehicle power company did their best to sell National City residents on the benefits of a planned electric truck charging station near the city’s 24th Street…
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South County Report: Keep On (Electric) Truckin’
Builders behind a proposed electric truck charging station in National City are hoping to win residents over.
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South County Report: EPA Visits Tijuana River
South County’s seemingly endless sewage crisis in the Tijuana River got some high-level federal attention on Tuesday. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin spent the day touring the river and conferring with local leaders, following a high-level meeting with Mexican officials the previous evening during which Mexico’s environment secretary…
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South County Report: The Race Is On (Again)
In the race to determine South County’s most powerful elected leader, voters now face a clear, and revealing, choice.
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South County Report: Voting Day Is Here
South County voters went to the polls Tuesday to – finally! – pick a new elected representative to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. It has been four months since former District 1 Supervisor Nora Vargas abruptly resigned from the Board for unexplained reasons. Since then, South County residents…
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