{"id":463379,"date":"2026-09-14T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463379\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:08:09","slug":"daily-business-report-september-14-2026-san-diego-metro-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463379\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Business Report: September 14, 2026, San Diego Metro Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/californiaglobe.com\/fl\/why-gas-prices-are-so-high-in-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Why Gas Prices Are So High in California<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Katy Grimes | California Globe<\/p>\n<p>While national crude prices set the floor, California\u2019s taxes, climate rules, unique fuel special blend, and diminished refining system raise the price per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>California gas is expensive for two overlapping reasons: it is structurally more costly than in most other states even in normal times, and the 2026 global oil shock has hit the state harder than the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>As of mid-September 2026, regular gasoline in California averages about $5.89 to $5.97 a gallon versus a U.S. average around $4.27 to $4.31.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/californiaglobe.com\/fl\/why-gas-prices-are-so-high-in-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/weather\/2026\/09\/12\/theres-a-good-chance-this-years-el-nino-will-break-records-were-about-to-find-out-what-that-means\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">There\u2019s a good chance this year\u2019s El Ni\u00f1o will break records. We\u2019re about to find out what that means.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Tessa Balc | Times of San Diego<\/p>\n<p>Summer\u2019s end means the precipitation we could see from this year\u2019s potentially record-breaking \u201cSuper\u201d El Ni\u00f1o is just around the bend.<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s Climate Prediction Center released its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/analysis_monitoring\/enso_advisory\/ensodisc.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">September El Ni\u00f1o update<\/a>\u00a0Thursday, saying there is a greater than 90% chance of a very strong event in the Northern Hemisphere during this fall and winter.<\/p>\n<p>Chandler Price, a meteorologist at the San Diego office of the National Weather Service, said just because an El Ni\u00f1o is evident, it doesn\u2019t automatically mean an unusually wet winter. Price says he and other researchers need to see a weather pattern develop before they can provide a forecast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/weather\/2026\/09\/12\/theres-a-good-chance-this-years-el-nino-will-break-records-were-about-to-find-out-what-that-means\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/09\/10\/how-the-county-fought-to-keep-employee-misconduct-records-under-wraps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">How the County Fought to Keep Employee Misconduct Records Under Wraps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Lisa Halverstadt| Voice of San Diego<\/p>\n<p>For months, county lawyers spun arguments to keep employee misconduct records Voice of San Diego requested from its behavioral health department from becoming public.<\/p>\n<p>It all started after Voice made a March 2025 public records request seeking reports of misconduct in the county\u2019s Behavioral Health Services Department that investigators found to have merit.<\/p>\n<p>First, county officials claimed they didn\u2019t have records to disclose. Then their lawyer incorrectly claimed that two county facilities weren\u2019t part of the department we sought records from and later said they accidentally failed to include them in their search for records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/09\/10\/how-the-county-fought-to-keep-employee-misconduct-records-under-wraps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Gas Prices Are So High in California By Katy Grimes | California Globe While national crude prices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-463379","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\/463379","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=463379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}