{"id":440554,"date":"2026-08-22T16:38:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440554\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:38:34","slug":"kicking-the-can-down-the-road-on-lake-hodges-will-only-cost-local-taxpayers-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440554\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking the can down the road on Lake Hodges will only cost local taxpayers \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cFuture of Lake Hodges Dam in limbo as costs, needs clash\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/08\/09\/what-should-become-of-the-lake-hodges-dam-as-san-diego-studies-its-options-local-leaders-worry-about-lake\/\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/08\/09\/what-should-become-of-the-lake-hodges-dam-as-san-diego-studies-its-options-local-leaders-worry-about-lake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 9<\/a>):\u00a0How the city of San Diego is dealing with the Lake Hodges Dam is so typical of our local politicians. <\/p>\n<p>A 100-year-old dam needs to be replaced \u2014 an obvious problem with an obvious solution. But what do they do? Study the hell out of it. Kick the can down the road. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the cost of the obvious solution keeps going up and up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlie Lackey, Carlsbad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cFuture of Lake Hodges Dam in limbo as costs, needs clash\u201d (Aug. 9):\u00a0How the city of San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-440554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","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\/440554","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=440554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}