{"id":409399,"date":"2026-07-23T13:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409399\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:19:07","slug":"daily-business-report-july-23-2026-san-diego-metro-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409399\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Business Report: July 23, 2026, San Diego Metro Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/07\/22\/special-education-enrollment-is-exploding-everywhere-its-plummeting-at-del-mar-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Special Education Enrollment Is Exploding Everywhere \u2013 It\u2019s Plummeting at Del Mar Union<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Jakob McWhinney | Voice of San Diego<\/p>\n<p>Del Mar Union Elementary School District\u2019s special education program has long been the subject of controversy.<\/p>\n<p>While students have always excelled academically, over the years, legal claims to secure services, lawsuits and complaints to government oversight agencies have piled up. The disputes have become so heated that the district has at times temporarily banned families from stepping foot on campus.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just outsiders who\u2019ve raised alarms. The district\u2019s special education program drove a then-sitting school board member to file a legal claim to secure services for their child.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/07\/22\/special-education-enrollment-is-exploding-everywhere-its-plummeting-at-del-mar-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/business\/2026\/07\/22\/10-years-dispensaries-la-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">How La Mesa became the \u2018Amsterdam of San Diego\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Drew Sitton\u00a0| Times of San Diego<\/p>\n<p>La Mesa\u2019s cannabis industry is nearing maturity, with its 14th and final dispensary under construction on the corner of University and 70th. After that, there is no space for any other dispensaries in the city of 60,000 under zoning rules.<\/p>\n<p>Even as more cities cash in on the lucrative cannabis industry, La Mesa leads the way in the number of dispensaries in East County, due largely to the city\u2019s modest tax rate and permissive zoning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty low-key become one of the most cannabis-dense small cities in San Diego County,\u201d said Jackie Bryant, a journalism professor at San Diego State and editor of Leaf Magazines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/business\/2026\/07\/22\/10-years-dispensaries-la-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/07\/22\/the-other-cardenas-working-in-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Other Cardenas Working in Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/author\/debbie-sklar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jim Hinch| Voice of San Diego<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Jesus Cardenas, a leading San Diego County Democratic political operative, abruptly vanished from public life.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty to two felony counts of fraudulently obtaining Covid relief money by massively overstating the size of his political consulting firm\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Forced to step away from his role as a go-to political consultant to a generation of Democratic power brokers, he became a political pariah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/07\/22\/the-other-cardenas-working-in-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Special Education Enrollment Is Exploding Everywhere \u2013 It\u2019s Plummeting at Del Mar Union by Jakob McWhinney | Voice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-409399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}