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San Diego Added to White House Initiative ‘TechHire’
San Diego is one of 21 cities and regions that have been added to TechHire, a White House initiative that aims to get 100,000 young Americans hired into technology-related jobs by 2020, the mayor’s...
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Chula Vista, San Diego Rank Among Happiest Cities in Nation
San Diego and Chula Vista were ranked among the top 11 happiest cities in the U.S. Monday by WalletHub, a personal finance website. The rankings of the 150 most populous municipalities were based on a...
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For Local Governments, Cashing in on Legal Marijuana Isn’t Going to Be Easy
At the office of Monterey County’s Treasurer-Tax Collector, gun-toting guards now stand sentry over the parking lot and entry door. A newly renovated front office now serves as a secure drop-off point...
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Magazine Names San Diego the Nation’s Most Data-Driven City
Governing, an influential magazine for local elected officials, has named San Diego the nation’s most data-driven city. The magazine’s annual “Equipt to Innovate” report ranked San Diego first...
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San Diego Ranked 2nd ‘Best Run’ Big City in America
San Diego came in second among cities over 1 million in a new study that ranked the top 150 U.S. cities from best run to worst run. The study by WalletHub, a Washington, DC-based personal finance...
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California Supreme Court Ruling Causes Chaos for Local Tax Measures
The California Supreme Court has some explaining to do. Late last year, the city of Oakland put a new land parcel tax on the books, after 62 percent of voters turned out to boost funding for public...
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California May Push Cities and Counties to End Local Gerrymandering
Rhonda Shader is tired of looking at maps of Placentia. First as a councilmember and now as the mayor, Shader has seen the seven square miles of her north Orange County town sliced and diced at least a...
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San Diego Ranked 4th-Best Large City In Which to Live
San Diego is the fourth-best large city in the country in which to live, according to a ranked list released Tuesday by the personal finance website WalletHub. WalletHub ranked cities with a population...
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San Diego Ranked Among World’s 25 ‘Most Beautiful’ Cities to Visit
San Diego ranks among the world’s 25 “most beautiful” cities to visit according to Canada’s leading online travel agency. Toronto-based Flight Network said it compiled the list from suggestions of more...
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San Diego County Cities Fare Well in New Fiscal Ranking by State Auditor
The fiscal health of every city in San Diego County was rated as only moderately at risk or better in a new report by the California State Auditor. The report released Thursday found that the cities of...
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Opinion: Lessons From a Successful ‘Left Coast’ City Right-Wing Partisans Hate
Last month, my husband and I visited a city brimming with history, character, and charm. We strolled through a montage of neighborhoods, taking in the sights of a thriving urban landscape defined by...
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Human Rights Campaign Gives San Diego Top Score for LGBTQ Equality
The Human Rights Campaign recognized the City of San Diego as a leader in LGBTQ-inclusive policies and practices by giving it the highest possible score. For the sixth consecutive year, the city earned...
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County Treasurer Reminds Residents of Dec. 10 Property Tax Deadline
San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister reminded homeowners Friday that the due date for the first installment of property taxes is less than a week away on Dec. 10. Property owners...
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Opinion: Gov. Newsom’s New Delta Framework May Finally End California’s Water...
The beating heart of California’s massive system of capturing, storing and distributing water is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Water flows into the West’s largest estuary from the Sacramento, San...
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Opinion: How Crowdsourced Innovation Can Solve Hunger and Other Urban Problems
In San Diego County, roughly 1 in 7 people and 1 in 5 children are going hungry every day. Yet about 40% of food gets wasted in the United States. But through the IGNITE| SCALE | San Diego Urban...
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California’s April 10 Property Tax Deadline Unlikely to Change Despite Pandemic
The global pandemic notwithstanding, most California owners are still on the hook to pay their property taxes next week — thus far, the state isn’t granting any reprieves. Though both federal and state...
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Trump Sending Federal Agents to Police ‘Democrat Cities,’ Including Oakland
President Trump on Monday said he would send law enforcement to more U.S. cities, as a federal crackdown on anti-racism protests in Oregon with unmarked cars and unidentified forces in camouflage...
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California Supreme Court Ruling Causes Chaos for Local Tax Measures
The California Supreme Court has some explaining to do. Late last year, the city of Oakland put a new land parcel tax on the books, after 62 percent of voters turned out to boost funding for public...
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California May Push Cities and Counties to End Local Gerrymandering
Rhonda Shader is tired of looking at maps of Placentia. First as a councilmember and now as the mayor, Shader has seen the seven square miles of her north Orange County town sliced and diced at least a...
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Pricey San Francisco Seeing Population Exodus in Wake of COVID-19 Pandemic
San Francisco from the Golden Gate Bridge. Photo by Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz via Wikimedia Commons Long one of the nation’s “it” destinations, San Francisco was already a land of unaffordable housing...
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