The San Diego City Council approved a $1.6 billion budget Monday for the coming fiscal year that maintains popular programs and avoids significant cuts or employee layoffs, despite slowing growth in tax revenues. Council members made an array of mostly minor, last-minute adjustments Monday during a two-hour public hearing. Those changes boost money for lifeguard […]
The 4th Annual North County Business Expo at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Conference Center was a great success! Presented by the San Diego County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, this Expo brings together business professionals from all of North County. We invited our local Chambers and their members to participate. The Fallbrook Chamber, […]
The Colorado River is short on water. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at a slate of proposed water projects in the river’s Upper Basin states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The river and its tributaries provide water for 40 million people in the Southwest. For about the last 20 years, demand for water […]
The season of toxic algae blooms is here. A helicopter crew spread copper sulfate over Lake Skinner near Temecula on Thursday, June 6, to combat a cyanobacteria bloom — also known as blue-green algae — that had been producing some cyanotoxins and unpleasant tastes and odors. The bloom doesn’t endanger water that will be delivered […]
San Diego Approves $1.6B Budget That Addresses Homelessness, Other Priorities
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby David GarrickThe San Diego City Council approved a $1.6 billion budget Monday for the coming fiscal year that maintains popular programs and avoids significant cuts or employee layoffs, despite slowing growth in tax revenues. Council members made an array of mostly minor, last-minute adjustments Monday during a two-hour public hearing. Those changes boost money for lifeguard […]
Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce Has A Successful Business Expo
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Daily Times-Advocate (Escondido)The 4th Annual North County Business Expo at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Conference Center was a great success! Presented by the San Diego County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, this Expo brings together business professionals from all of North County. We invited our local Chambers and their members to participate. The Fallbrook Chamber, […]
On Stressed Colorado River, States Test How Many More Diversions Watershed Can Bear
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /KUNC (Greeley, Colo.)by Luke RunyonThe Colorado River is short on water. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at a slate of proposed water projects in the river’s Upper Basin states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The river and its tributaries provide water for 40 million people in the Southwest. For about the last 20 years, demand for water […]
Blue-Green Algae Treated At Lake Skinner Near Temecula, As Other Lakes Recover From Blooms
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Press-Enterprise (Riverside)by Ryan HagenThe season of toxic algae blooms is here. A helicopter crew spread copper sulfate over Lake Skinner near Temecula on Thursday, June 6, to combat a cyanobacteria bloom — also known as blue-green algae — that had been producing some cyanotoxins and unpleasant tastes and odors. The bloom doesn’t endanger water that will be delivered […]