SAN DIEGO - As the debate over immigration reform continues in the nation’s capitol, San Diego’s pro-immigrant community has joined others across the country urging lawmakers to include a provision that would extend legalization to those who’ve been already deported.
“It was like what you see in the movies where all the cops come into the house, it was like a nightmare, my sister was crying, my brother was too,” said 22-year-old Leslie Nuñez.
SAN DIEGO -- Thousands of health care workers at UC San Diego Medical Center and University of California hospitals across the state began a two-day strike Tuesday, walking picket lines as they push for a new contract.
UC health officials prepared for the walkout by canceling non-essential surgical procedures at all of its centers and juggling staff to ensure patients are not endangered by the work stoppage, which began around 6 a.m.
Polls open in a hotly contested special election for two important races. First the District 4 seat on the San Diego City Council. Former police officer Myrtle Cole is up against activist Dwayne Crenshaw. And the 80th California State Assembly seat will be decided too. Labor activist Lorena Gonzalez is up against Chula Vista Councilman Steve Castaneda. The polls open at 7:00 AM
San Diego City Council is meeting this morning at 10:00. Two items on of note the agenda. First a more than $187,000 settlement on a San Diego Police officer’s excessive force suit. Second money to make an assessment of what repairs Balboa Park’s Starlight Bowl may need.
County Supervisor Dianne Jacob will join fire officials at 11:00 AM in a press conference to talk about protecting homes against wildfires.
This evening at 5:00 San Diego Unified School District is honoring its “Classified Employees of the Year”. The School District describes Classified employees as being “the non-teaching, support personal that include Special Education Assistants, Library Technicians, custodians, office staff and other key employees.”
And finally at 9:00 AM a two-day symposium starts about the validity and challenges of building interstellar space ships and long term space travel on campus at the University of California at San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute, in Atkinson Hall at 9500 Gilman Drive.
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University of California Health Care Workers Protest | Voters Decide San Diego City Council District 4 Race & 80th CA Assembly Seat | School District Honors Employees
VISTA, Calif. -- Two caregivers convicted of abusing a 23-year-old severely autistic Valley Center man under their care were scheduled to be sentenced Monday.
Registered nurse Michael Dale Garritson, 62, was convicted in April 22 of two felony counts of willful cruelty of a dependent adult likely to cause great bodily injury, four misdemeanor counts and acquitted on a seventh count.
This morning at 10:00 the Port of San Diego is celebrating a waterfront renovation milestone. On Harbor Drive between the Navy and B Street piers they are shifting traffic lanes 60 feet to the east so construction can begin on a new 105-foot promenade. When finished the new walk way will have new gardens and plazas among the improvements.
At 9:00 this morning San Diego City Council is meeting to talk about infrastructure. They will take public input on how to prioritize the maintenance. Then at 2:00 this afternoon they are meeting to talk about a master plan for the San Diego River Park.
In court today four things of note
First at 9:00 AM in the Vista courthouse Michael Garritson and Matthew McDuffie will be sentenced for abusing a 23-year-old severely autistic man. They were caught on video.
Second in the San Diego Courthouse the testimony in the retrial of the man accused of being the freeway shooter continues. Stephen Dragasits is accused of shooting aT random cars that drove along the freeway.
Third in El Cajon’s courthouse at 1:25 this afternoon Darin Wayne Williams will be arraigned. He’s accused of setting fire to a Greek Orthodox Church
And finally back in the Vista courthouse the sentencing for Inez Martinez Garcia and Marciel Garcia Hernandez. The pair pleaded guilty to forcing their 12-year-old niece to be both a domestic and sexual slave.
At 1:30 this afternoon at Abraxas High SchoolSan Diego County Sheriff’s personnel, along with firefighters and school staff will participate in an active shooter drill. The drill will take about 3 1/2 hours and involve deputies tracking down a mock-shooter with teenagers pretending to be victims.
Finally today single game tickets for four of the eight San Diego Charger home games go on sale. Fans can get them at QUALCOMM’s Gate C or on line at Chargers.com. Prices start at $52.
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In a flurry of letters late last year, Southern California Edison and the manufacturer that designed the steam generators at the now-dark San Onofre nuclear power plant appeared to be at odds over a long-term plan to repair the troubled facility.
In the exchange, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries proposed a repair plan that it said could have the plant back online at full power in about a year and also suggested a far more aggressive and expensive repair job that would take more than five years to complete.
Protesters will gather at San Diego’s Federal Building at noon for 550 San Diego janitors that say they could lose their jobs without immigration reform. The protesters believe that the janitors would be eligible for the “pathway to citizenship” if congress was able to move on immigration reform. They will call for the President to suspend I-9 employment terminations until congress acts.
Camp Pendleton is hosting the Fifth Annual Recon Challenge this morning. Beginning at 4:00 AM participants will jump from a tower into a pool, assemble an M240 rifle underwater, and then race over an obstacle course.
More than 3000 students are graduating at Cal State San Marcos this morning at 10:30. And over the weekend more than 9000 student will walk at San Diego State University’s commencements.
The suspensions meted out to 31 high school students in San Diego for being in a "twerking" video were "illegal and ill-advised" and should be reconsidered, the ACLU said in a letter to the school principal Thursday.
The two-day suspensions do not fit the Education Code definition of conduct that constitutes sexual harassment, David Loy, legal director of the ACLU branch for San Diego and Imperial counties, wrote to Scripps Ranch High School Principal Ann Menna.
