San Diego is largely a ship being tossed by the changing tide of Washington\u2019s policies. But the Tijuana River sewage crisis is one area where the region has dropped anchor to chart its own course.<\/p>\n
In a new DC Explained column, Alan Berube, a senior advisor at the Policy & Innovation Center, implores the region to apply that same tenacity to other challenges the region faces: Housing, health science leadership and energy development.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the Tijuana River crisis shows that this region can also define a goal, align actors, and begin to move even a reluctant federal partner,\u201d Berube writes. \u201cThe open question is whether San Diego can summon the same coordination for the future it wants to build. Until it does, San Diego will keep meeting Washington on Washington\u2019s terms, one shock at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read more here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n San Diego Isn\u2019t Taking Chances\u00a0<\/p>\n San Diego city officials have been trying for years to get a new sports arena built in the Midway District.\u00a0And despite many legal challenges, they haven\u2019t given up. <\/p>\n Now, to guarantee it gets built, officials are supporting a bill that would exempt height from California\u2019s environmental law. Sacramento reporter Nadia Lathan explains in her latest newsletter where things stand on the bill. <\/p>\n But \u2026 the project may not even need this exemption: state officials already gave it a different legal path forward in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n Read the Sacramento Report here.<\/a><\/p>\n Death of a Charter Reform!\u00a0<\/p>\n On the latest episode of the Voice of San Diego Podcast, our hosts tackle everything from Comic-Con building wraps to California\u2019s housing crisis.<\/p>\n They also explain how a proposed ballot measure to give Chula Vista City Council members raises crashed and burned following public outcry and quid pro quo allegations from the mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n Listen to the full show here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n For members only: Will Huntsberry explains in the latest Politics Report just how big of a loss that was for the labor union that proposed the ballot measure. <\/p>\n Read the Politics Report here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n About Those Bathrooms for Lifeguards<\/p>\n