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San Diego's bitter divorce from a homeless service provider | Gary Warth Oct 05, 2020

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The city of San Diego has terminated its contract with the service provider running its Housing Navigation Center downtown.

City officials said they will take it over next month and rename it and they will base its homeless services on programs they said have been successful in the temporary shelter in the San Diego Convention Center.

Read more: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/story/2020-10-01/city-to-take-over-navigation-center-ousted-service-provider-says-system-was-unworkable

Special Election Episode: Voting 101 Oct 03, 2020

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If you're a registered voter in San Diego County, you'll be seeing a ballot in your mailbox this week. On the first special election episode of San Diego News Fix, Daniel Wheaton speaks with politics reporter Charles Clark about how this election will be different — and what to expect.

Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis | Gary Robbins Oct 02, 2020

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President Donald Trump said late Thursday night that he and his wife, Melania, have tested positive for COVID-19 and that they have gone into quarantine. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/story/2020-10-01/trump-tests-positive

How different school districts are planning to get students back in the classroom | Kristen Taketa Oct 01, 2020

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More than five weeks after the first schools in San Diego County were allowed to reopen, most of San Diego County’s school districts have either reopened or have opening dates set for October.

Many are reopening first by bringing back the youngest students or by offering hybrid learning, where students attend for part of the week or day and continue with distance learning part time.

Grossmont Union High is phasing in reopening by first having students attend in-person one day a week. Santee and Poway are having students attend for half a school day. Still others are like Alpine Union, which has students attend in-person a couple of days a week.

When looking at timelines for districts reopening, it’s clear that district size matters. Most of the districts that have reopened are small.

An officer-involved shooting, an Instagram post and a suspended SDPD officer | David Herandez Sep 30, 2020

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A San Diego police officer has been suspended without pay amid allegations that he posted a photo on social media that appeared to make light of a makeshift memorial for a man the officer and a partner fatally shot in late June, police Chief David Nisleit announced Tuesday.

The chief also said Officer Jonathon Lucas, who has been on the force for about four years, was stripped of his police powers — forced to give up his gun and badge — while the Police Department investigates the matter.

Californians can reverse the state's affirmative action ban. Will they? | John Wilkens Sep 29, 2020

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This summer, it seemed the planets might be aligning to repeal California’s 24-year-old ban on affirmative action.

Widespread street protests over the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis had fueled a national reckoning with racism, discrimination and other social-justice problems. Poll after poll of public opinion showed rising acknowledgement of racial inequality and the need to address it.

The novel coronavirus was having a disproportionate impact on people of color.

And California was in a sustained demographic and political shift — more diverse, less conservative — away from what it was in 1996, when voters approved Proposition 209, a constitutional amendment outlawing racial or gender preferences in public employment, education and contracts.

"RADD" biotech hub planned for bay front development | Jennifer Van Grove Sep 28, 2020

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Hoping to make a splash in downtown’s real estate market, a celebrated biotech office developer has purchased more than 8 acres of waterfront land to create a life science city along San Diego’s Bay.

Friday, the newly formed IQHQ real estate investment group, started by storied life science builder Alan Gold, completed its acquisition of around two-thirds — or five city blocks — of the development site known as Manchester Pacific Gateway. The transaction paves the way for what IQHQ is calling the San Diego Research and Development District, or RaDD, as a massive lab-filled campus where ground-floor retail and unrivaled bay views work to recruit the biggest names in the pharmaceutical industry.

Downtown construction during a pandemic? Yes! | Phillip Molnar Sep 25, 2020

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Logic dictates construction during a global pandemic would halt. But, the economic effects of COVID-19 are anything but logical.

The transformation of downtown San Diego’s skyline has continued at a furious pace throughout the crisis, so much so that a visit to some parts can feel like you accidentally walked into a massive construction zone.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/real-estate/story/2020-09-25/downtown-san-diego-construction-continues-at-furious-pace-will-it-last

How San Diego Black Lives Matter protestors reacted to the Breonna Taylor verdict | Alex Riggins Sep 25, 2020

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Several hundred people marched through downtown San Diego Wednesday night to protest a Kentucky grand jury’s decision not to indict any Louisville police officers for the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

Led by a “wall of moms” in matching yellow T-shirts, demonstrators marched down Broadway chanting Taylor’s name along with other social-justice slogans.

Padres win bid to develop Tailgate Park | Jenn Van Grove Sep 23, 2020

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The San Diego Padres have won the opportunity to turn four city blocks, currently used as a Petco Park parking lot, into an urban square where technology workers commingle with artisans and baseball fans.

Wednesday, city officials announced that the Padres and its development partners, Tishman Speyer and Ascendant Capital Partners, were picked over challenger Brookfield Properties to redevelop the 5.25-acre plot of land known as Tailgate Park.

The selection brings to an end a competitive bidding process that started in December and paves the way for the city to offload the long-held asset as is required by the state.

Read more: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/growth-development/story/2020-09-23/in-bid-for-tailgate-park-padres-beat-brookfield-with-1-4b-office-focused-proposal

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