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Mello-Roos: The Tax You Choose - inewsource
WEBMay 29, 2013 · Do you pay extra property taxes? We’ll tell you how much. by Joanne Faryon and Kevin Crowe | inewsource. SAN DIEGO — Unless you’re paying it, chances are you don’t know a lot about a tax called Mello-Roos.It’s an odd sounding name for what has become a growing revenue source for developers, school districts and cities in …
Court-ordered reforms at Donovan state prison face legal challenge
WEBSep 28, 2021 · The Richard J. Donovan state prison in Otay Mesa is shown on Dec. 21, 2018. (Megan Wood/inewsource) California’s corrections department is on the verge of agreeing to an unprecedented legal settlement that would force Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego to handle staff misconduct allegations with greater accountability and ...
San Diego police increase homeless arrests as shelters grow
WEBJun 10, 2022 · The number of people living on the streets of San Diego has increased roughly 10% in two years — up from at least 2,283 in 2020 to 2,494 earlier this year, according to the homeless census, which is considered an undercount. Gloria acknowledged the housing crisis, saying part of the problem is “the rent’s too damn high,” and that many ...
Rewired | inewsource
WEBREWIRED is an investigation into a promising and experimental brain treatment that upended the lives of the doctor who developed it and the Navy SEAL who had a psychotic break after receiving it. The reporting, initially published in early 2020, offered the first public description of a University of California investigation into how a $10 ...
Federal probe underway after San Diego VA stops treatment that …
WEBJun 17, 2020 · Following an inewsource report that the VA San Diego Healthcare System has stopped paying for a drug treatment that helps suicidal veterans, a panel of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has begun investigating the decision. El Cajon veteran AJ Williams, featured this month in the inewsource investigation, was interviewed Monday by …
‘We’re struggling’: Imperial County nonprofits serving homeless …
WEBApr 24, 2020 · Imperial County has seen its homeless numbers spike in recent years, in part because of increased efforts to count the homeless at what’s known as Slab City, a former military base that’s now an off-the-grid community. In 2017, the county’s homeless population increased 204%, jumping from 380 to 1,154. In 2018, the number grew to nearly ...
San Diego woman says controversial diabetes treatment
WEBMay 25, 2018 · She said the infusions sent her blood sugar soaring. (Megan Wood/inewsource) A San Diego woman says she was put at risk of hospitalization last year after receiving a series of insulin infusions at Dr. James Novak’s Trina Health clinic in Pacific Beach. The woman and her endocrinologist said the infusions spiked her blood sugar to dangerously ...
Why the VA is stopping doctors from sending veterans to
WEBNov 1, 2021 · When Maroney died, the hospital quickly signed off on more sessions. That lasted about five months. Starting in March 2020, the VA stopped paying for veterans to get ketamine therapy, even though the hospital’s psychiatrists had requested additional treatments. For Wolfe, the VA’s decision was tantamount to betrayal.
SANDAG staff used taxpayer-funded credit cards on extravagant …
WEBApr 7, 2022 · Staff at the San Diego Association of Governments pulled out their employee credit cards hundreds of times to pay for meals, often at upscale dining spots and with bills topping out at more than $100 per visit, an inewsource review of the regional planning agency’s records reveals.. A recent internal audit at SANDAG already flagged questionable purchases on the credit cards, including ...
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