MTS still projects major budget shortfall despite strong ridership gains
By Sophia Sleap | Times of San Diego
Transit officials said a few months ago that San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System faces a fiscal cliff, but the messaging has shifted based on an official’s recent comments.
“MTS is approaching a crossroads,” said Julia Tuer, government affairs manager for the San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System, which operates four light rail lines and approximately 100 bus routes across central, southern and eastern San Diego County.
In a presentation last month to the San Diego City Council’s Active Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Tuer described the crossroads. On the one hand, the system has made impressive gains in ridership. Of the 25 major transit hubs across the nation, MTS has the second-fastest growing ridership.
San Diego Doesn’t Want You to Take a Seat
By Beila Ross | Voice of San Diego
On a crisp November morning, a group of men in motorcycle jackets murmur against the soundscape of a self-cleaning restroom, faces basking in the steam of their hot coffees.
To my right, a handful of senior citizens practice tai chi in the shadow of a large tree. To my left, a young couple makes out on a bench.
This, of course, was not in San Diego. It was a Monday morning at Washington Square in San Francisco. But maybe you already knew that.
FDA Admits Children Died from Covid Shots that CA Mandated
By Rita Barnett-Rose | California Globe
On November 29, 2025, a leaked internal FDA memo written by Vinay Prasad — the new director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) — confirmed what many parents had warned and what California officials aggressively denied: American children died because of the COVID vaccines.
The memo summarizes an FDA review of 96 pediatric deaths reported between 2021 and 2024, cases drawn from VAERS and cross-checked against records, timelines, hospitalization notes, and autopsies where available. After this review, analysts concluded that “no fewer than 10” children likely died because of the vaccine. In regulatory terms, that is a finding of causation — not correlation — and it is seismic.
Prasad — a Bay Area liberal who spent a decade at UCSF and initially supported mRNA vaccination for high-risk adults — is precisely the kind of mainstream physician California officials once told the public to trust. Yet he wrote explicitly: “This is the first time the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children.”