{"id":448855,"date":"2026-08-31T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448855\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:54:08","slug":"daily-business-report-august-31-2026-san-diego-metro-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448855\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Business Report: August 31, 2026, San Diego Metro Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/transportation\/2026\/08\/30\/gas-prices-around-sd-county-rise-for-12th-straight-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Gas prices around SD County rise for 12th straight day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By City New Service| Times of San Diego<\/p>\n<p>The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County rose for the 12th consecutive day Sunday, increasing 1.8 cents to $5.792.<\/p>\n<p>The average price has risen 11 cents over the past 12 days, including 1.8 cents Saturday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It is 6.8 cents more than one week ago, 6.1 cents more than one month ago and $1.108 more than one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The average price has increased $1.106 since the start of the joint U.S.\/Israel attack on Iran on Feb. 28, which sent oil prices higher and drastically accelerated increases at the gas pump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/transportation\/2026\/08\/30\/gas-prices-around-sd-county-rise-for-12th-straight-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/08\/30\/sex-tapes-attorney-fees-and-a-bad-cop-with-a-new-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sex Tapes, Attorney Fees and a Bad Cop with a New Job<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0Andrea Sanchez-Villafa\u00f1a\u00a0| Voice of San Diego<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Lisa Halverstadt revealed in a new story that a county nursing facility has been plagued by racism, harassment allegations and sex tapes.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, a county employee in the behavioral health department was investigated for making a racist comment during an online training session. Investigators concluded that the employee did do it, and county leaders later promoted the employee.<\/p>\n<p>You may be wondering, how did Lisa find this?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/08\/30\/sex-tapes-attorney-fees-and-a-bad-cop-with-a-new-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/community\/2026\/08\/29\/san-diego-find-beach-fire-rings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The city of San Diego has fewer fire rings than it did last year. Here\u2019s where you can still light a bonfire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Tessa Balc| Times of San Diego<\/p>\n<p>Through the smoke and torrent of this year\u2019s budget, do you recall\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2025\/05\/12\/san-diegos-beach-bonfires-may-finally-burn-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the conversation<\/a>\u00a0last year about removing the city\u2019s fire rings?<\/p>\n<p>You probably noticed that these rings didn\u2019t enter the budget conversation this year. There wasn\u2019t an uproar. Yet the rings didn\u2019t disappear into thin air.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the city didn\u2019t attempt to touch the beloved San Diego staple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/community\/2026\/08\/29\/san-diego-find-beach-fire-rings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas prices around SD County rise for 12th straight day By City New Service| Times of San Diego&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-448855","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\/448855","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=448855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}