November 16, 2011 (San Diego’s East County)–East County Roundup highlights articles on top regional and state issues of interest to East County and inland San Diego County, published in other media. This week’s top Roundup headlines include:
LOCAL
- Report: Safety of 2 local bridges questioned (10 News)
- Grossmont Union board approves new boundaries; no Alpine High School(Signonsandiego.com)
- $5,000 Fines for Spilling Milk? Rep. Hunter’s Office Can’t Show Examples (La Mesa Patch)
- Warning issued after Poway High School student’s death (10 News)
- Rocket motors being tested inside Lakeside quarry (10 News)
- Stanley Lloyd Jr. trial begins; Carioscia’s mother released from jail to testify (Ramona Patch)
- College compact excludes charters (Signonsandiego.com)
STATE
- UC regents call off meeting; campuses set for protest (Sacramento Bee)
- California budget cuts depend on revenues forecasts (San Jose Mercury News)
- UC Berkeley cop shoots gunman near Occupy protest (Sacramento Bee)
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LOCAL
Report: Safety of 2 local bridges questioned (10 News)
November 13, 2011 — Two major freeway bridges in San Diego County were tested for safety by a Caltrans engineer who was later disciplined for faking test results on other structures, calling into question the safety of some massive new bridges, it was reported Sunday.
http://www.10news.com/news/29759564/detail.html
Grossmont Union board approves new boundaries; no Alpine High School
November 10, 2011 — Trustees of the Grossmont Union High School District approved new boundaries and the implementation of open enrollment limits at a board meeting Thursday night in El Cajon. The decision could affect thousands of incoming students as early as the fall of 2012.
The vote was 4 to 1 in favor of changing the attendance areas of the district’s nine comprehensive East County high schools.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/nov/10/grossmont-union-high-school-district-board-approve/
$5,000 Fines for Spilling Milk? Rep. Hunter’s Office Can’t Show Examples (La Mesa Patch)
November 12, 2011 — Rep. Duncan D. Hunter on Nov. 7 called for deregulation, saying it’s “impossible” to keep up with rules on the city, state and federal levels.
He cited an EPA edict: “Literally, if you spilled milk on your factory floor, it’s considered an oil spill, and you could be fined—and people were fined, hundreds of companies—$5,000 a day for spilled milk.”
http://lamesa.patch.com/articles/5-000-fine-for-spilling-milk-on-factory-floor-hunter-office-can-t-document-remark-a92fb921
Warning issued after Poway High School student’s death (10 News)
November 15, 2011 — Parents are calling for a solution to what they call a substance abuse problem following the death of a 17-year-old Poway High School student who was shot under bizarre circumstances. Luke Lipscomb, a varsity lacrosse player and junior at Poway High School, died Monday evening after suffering a gunshot wound to the head on Nov. 4
http://www.10news.com/news/29780644/detail.html
Rocket motors being tested inside Lakeside quarry (10 News)
November 12, 2011 — The future of space travel is being tested in a laboratory hidden inside a Lakeside quarry. 10News toured the specialized testing facility where rocket motors are being test-fired by engineers from the Sierra Nevada Corporation.
http://www.10news.com/news/29756215/detail.html?taf=sand
Stanley Lloyd Jr. trial begins; Carioscia’s mother released from jail to testify (Ramona Patch)
November 15, 2011 — The homicide trial got under way Tuesday in the death of 17-year-old Christopher Carioscia, an El Capitan High School student whose body was found last year on the Barona Indian Reservation.
Stanley Virgil Lloyd Jr.—a Barona tribal member—is accused of first-degree murder in the death of his former elementary schoolmate. Lloyd was 19 when he was arrested in March.
http://ramona.patch.com/articles/stanley-lloyd-jr-trial-begins-carioscia-s-mother-released-from-jail-to-testify
http://ramona.patch.com/articles/stanley-lloyd-jr-trial-begins-carioscia-s-mother-released-from-jail-to-testify
College compact excludes charters (Signonsandiego.com)
November 14, 2011 — The Sweetwater schools have a new policy excluding certain students from its guaranteed entrance agreement with San Diego State University, known as the Compact for Success.The rules leave out any students who attend seventh and eighth grade at charter schools in nearby elementary school districts. Previously, those students could enter Sweetwater in ninth grade and still qualify for the college program.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/nov/14/college-deal-excludes-charters/
STATE
UC regents call off meeting; campuses set for protest (Sacramento Bee)
November 15, 2011 — College campuses around California are scheduled to erupt in protest today through Thursday, as anger at tuition increases and sympathy with an embattled faculty union combine with the spirit of the ongoing Occupy movement.
In a highly unusual move, the University of California canceled its governing board’s meetings scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday in San Francisco out of fear that protests there could turn violent. A spokesman said it had been decades since the UC system canceled a regents meeting because of such concerns.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/15/4054856/uc-regents-call-off-meeting-campuses.html
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/15/4054856/uc-regents-call-off-meeting-campuses.html
California budget cuts depend on revenues forecasts (San Jose Mercury News)
November 16, 2011 — California’s nonpartisan fiscal analyst on Wednesday said the state is projected to face a $13 billion budget shortfall over the next 18 months, suggesting that Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers will have to make another round of spending cuts.
Under the budget plan passed last summer, a shortfall of that magnitude would trigger cuts as early as January to public schools, higher education, services for seniors and health care programs for the needy.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_19346549
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_19346549
UC Berkeley cop shoots gunman near Occupy protest (Sacramento Bee)
November 16, 2011 — Tensions between police and Occupy protesters in the Bay Area mounted Tuesday as UC Berkeley police reported shooting a man wielding a gun inside a campus computer lab – just a day after University of California regents canceled their meeting in San Francisco, citing "credible intelligence" that protests there could turn violent.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/16/4057876/uc-berkeley-cop-shoots-gunman.html