By Marie Waldron On Jan. 4, 80 Assemblymembers and 40 Senators returned to Sacramento for the 2023-2024 legislative session. Hundreds of bills will be introduced over the coming weeks. Most won’t be controversial, and many will probably never become law. Most bills must be submitted to the Office of Legislative…
La Mesa California
With San Diego Humane Society locations being at or over capacity, and recent cases of canine distemper virus, the organization has temporarily suspended the intake of owner-surrendered dogs until Jan. 15, 2023. CDV is a contagious and sometimes fatal viral infection in dogs and some wild animals such as racoons,…
On Dec. 23, Congress approved reimbursing the Federal Emergency Management Agency up to $785 million for costs related to emergency shelters and services to asylum seekers. District 2 Supervisor Joel Anderson is asking his four colleagues on the county Board of Supervisors to vote cohesively and request some of those…
It was reasonably expected that the County of San Diego’s Transient Occupancy Tax revenue for Fiscal Year 2021-22 would be higher than for 2019-20 and 2020-21 when coronavirus restrictions reduced lodging, but the 2021-22 countywide total of $7,225,923.25 was 24.9 percent higher than the 2018-19 figure of $5,784,163.63. The 2021-22…
The city of La Mesa in February voted 3-2 to uphold an October 2021 appeal against a proposed marijuana dispensary filed by Communities Against Substance Abuse Executive Director Dana Stevens. An overview map provided showed the storefront’s proposed entrance would sit 1,950 feet away from Christ Lutheran church and school…
