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ImmunityBio tests COVID-19 vaccine | Jonathan Wosen Oct 16, 2020

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ImmunityBio, an El Segundo-based biotech firm headed by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, said Thursday it had received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to begin preliminary testing of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2020-10-15/soon-shiong-phase-1-trial-coronavirus-vaccine

San Diego Unified announces changes to how it grades students | Kristen Taketa Oct 15, 2020

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Starting this school year San Diego Unified will eliminate non-academic factors, such as student behavior, from academic grades, following a unanimous vote by the school board Tuesday to overhaul the district’s grading practices.

Read more: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2020-10-15/san-diego-unified-changes-grading-protocols-to-be-more-equitable

Issa, Campa-Najjar appear in "Defend East County"; both face different kinds of criticism | Charles Clark Oct 14, 2020

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California’s 50th District Congressional Candidates, Darrell Issa and Ammar Campa-Najjar, stirred controversy after virtual Q&A sessions with the local Defend East County Facebook group.

Their appearances Friday on the group’s Facebook Live sessions have drawn criticism from some activists and experts who study extremism.

Appearing alongside the East County group’s founder, Justin Haskins, Issa seemed to promote citizen groups taking up arms to “defend their communities,” days after a thwarted plot by self-styled militia members to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and weeks after a counterprotester in Kenosha, Wis., shot and killed two people and wounded a third.

Read the story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2020-10-13/50th-candidates-appear-with-group-that-trafficked-in-racism-and-conspiracies-issa-promotes-taking-up-arms

Trump has called on his supporters to "observe the polls" -- can they do that? | John Wilkens Oct 13, 2020

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Watching, yes. Interfering, no.

President Donald Trump’s repeated calls to his supporters to monitor election polling places for fraud have raised questions about what is allowed, and what isn’t, as San Diego County residents begin casting their ballots for the Nov. 3 election.

Observers, as they are known in California, have long been part of elections here. Usually they are campaign insiders or political-party volunteers, and they rarely draw public attention as they quietly watch what goes on in polling places or at the Registrar of Voters, where ballots are processed and tabulated.

Returned Part III: A legitimate fear of death doesn’t always matter in the US asylum system | Kate Morrissey Oct 12, 2020

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For Central American migrants fleeing gang violence, winning protection in the United States can be particularly difficult

Read the story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2020-10-11/us-asylum-system-gang-violence-honduras

The rest of the series: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/returned

Previous episodes:

Returned Part II: Who gets asylum? | Kate Morrissey https://art19.com/admin/series/eda62611-1093-4bef-a541-36a48c7289b5/content/episodes/e9541525-b629-4b2a-9d4f-05c5276907a8

Returned Part 1: What it takes to make a case under the US asylum system https://art19.com/admin/series/eda62611-1093-4bef-a541-36a48c7289b5/content/episodes/a2fb8dc5-8590-4c6c-89c0-2fd0f6fe9a67

Special Election Episode: How the U-T's Editorial Board makes endorsements Oct 10, 2020

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In preparation for the election, The San Diego Union-Tribune's editorial board is publishing a series of endorsements on many local races. On this special election episode of San Diego News Fix, you'll hear from two members of the board: Matt Hall and Laura Castadñeda about how the process works and how the opinion team highlights community voices.

Key links:

Election dashboard: sandiegouniontribune.com/electiondashboard

2020 Endorsements: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2020endorsements

Candidate interviews: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/san-diego-election-2020-candidate-interviews

Commentary on propositions and measures: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/2020-election-commentary-on-propositions-and-measures

Discrepancies in Georgette Gómez tax filings | Andrew Dyer Oct 09, 2020

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San Diego City Council President and Congressional candidate Georgette Gómez reported no salary on her federal tax filing in 2017 despite earning more than $90,000 from her job on the council. Gómez, who is facing fellow Democrat Sara Jacobs in the November runoff for the 53rd District congressional seat, through a spokeswoman blamed the errors on her tax preparer and pledged to amend at least one of her returns. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2020-10-08/city-council-president-georgette-gomez-failed-to-report-more-than-100-000-in-income-on-taxes-records-show

New report explains the causes behind the Aug. blackouts | Rob Nikolewski Oct 08, 2020

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A reportfrom three key state groups analyzing what caused a pair of blackouts in mid-August largely conformed to reasons previously cited by California’s grid operator — that a combination of factors, including a sweltering heatwave, pushed the state’s power system to its edge, leading to the first statewide outages in nearly 20 years.

Read more: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2020-10-07/report-a-combination-of-factors-led-to-californias-rolling-blackouts-in-august

Poll: Gloria, Bry in virtual dead heat for SD mayor | David Garrick Oct 07, 2020

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Assemblyman Todd Gloria and Councilwoman Barbara Bry are in a virtual dead heat among likely voters in the runoff for San Diego mayor, according to a San Diego Union-Tribune/10News SurveyUSA poll released Tuesday.

Gloria leads Bry 39 percent to 38 percent, which is within the poll’s 5.3 percent margin of error. That leaves nearly a quarter of likely voters still undecided, with mail voting already underway and Election Day on Nov. 3.

More on the poll: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2020-10-06/new-poll-shows-bry-gloria-in-near-dead-heat-as-race-for-san-diego-mayor-enters-final-stretch

David's Mayoral race preview: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2020-10-04/battle-for-san-diego-mayor-focused-on-housing-vacation-rentals-future-of-sports-arena-area

Photo Essay, The Lost Campaign: https://go.sandiegouniontribune.com/the-lost-campaign/p/1

Will the health equity score keep San Diego in the red COVID tier? | Paul Sisson Oct 06, 2020

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Starting with Tuesday’s test, an additional score is now being published. This new number, dubbed a “health equity metric,” calculates a test positivity rate for the most disadvantaged quartile of census tracts in each county. The positivity rate for this subset of a county’s overall population must also meet the positivity rate requirements for a less-restrictive tier before a county will be allowed to move up.

The state’s health equity score for San Diego County in Tuesday’s report is 6.2 percent, a full 2.7 percentage points greater than the region’s overall positivity rate of 3.5 percent. To qualify for the orange tier, counties must have their positivity rates below 5 percent for two consecutive weeks.

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