{"id":508028,"date":"2026-10-26T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508028\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T02:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:50:08","slug":"vosd-podcast-what-the-flock-navwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508028\/","title":{"rendered":"VOSD Podcast: What the Flock, NAVWAR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Campaign season is getting strange in San Diego.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, Scott Lewis, Bella Ross and Jakob McWhinney started with a run of new signs in Ocean Beach that tie a San Diego City Council candidate to Mayor Todd Gloria and why that is a bad thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data Center Madness<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/10\/15\/manchester-group-pitches-massive-data-center-at-the-navwar-site\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacKenzie Elmer broke some news on a project at the Navy\u2019s NAVWAR site near the airport<\/a>. She found that the developer asked San Diego Community Power what it would cost to run a 400-megawatt data center there. The mayor has since signed an executive order calling for a moratorium on data centers. But the Navy controls the land, so the city\u2019s options to stop the project are limited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McWhinney also covered a <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2026\/10\/21\/council-takes-first-step-toward-cancelling-flock-contract\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City Council committee\u2019s unanimous vote to advance a plan to cancel the city\u2019s Flock license plate reader contract<\/a> and tighten its surveillance ordinance. A veto-proof majority needs six votes, and supporters currently have five. Last, a late amendment to the Midway Rising plan could change how much new affordable housing the project actually delivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also: We\u2019re recording a live show at Soda Bar on Nov. 10. Details are at <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/events\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"voiceofsandiego.org\/events\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voiceofsandiego.org\/events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch and listen below:<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaign season is getting strange in San Diego.\u00a0 This week, Scott Lewis, Bella Ross and Jakob McWhinney started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-508028","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\/508028","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=508028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}