SANDAG Chair and Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear joined Vista Mayor Judy Ritter, SANDAG Executive Director Hasan Ikhrata and San Diego County Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Andy Hanshaw during the virtual ribbon-cutting ceremony on SANDAG s Facebook page. Adding miles to bikeways is so important as people bike and walk more than ever during the pandemic, Blakespear said. We can make great strides as a community to reduce our impact on the environment and play a part in our region s effort to meet our greenhouse gas emission reduction goals by offering residents healthy, safe, and viable transportation choices.
The latest completed phase includes a 2.5-mile section between Cherimoya Drive in the unincorporated county and Mar Vista Drive in Vista, and a half-mile section between North Drive and North Melrose Drive in Vista.
LA MESA
La Mesa City Councilman Jack Shu, a longtime advocate for the environment, has persuaded his colleagues on the City Council to declare a climate emergency.
Earlier this month, the newly elected official helped create a draft resolution, with the help of others in the community, that won support from the rest of the City Council. In it, Shu wrote that “the scale and scope” of the climate crisis has led to an urgent need for people to be made aware of the dangers related to growing extreme weather conditions.
In it, Shu cited $1 billion in damage during 2016-18 because of weather disasters attributed to climate change, and that the “wildfire season” in California is now year-round. Shu said the 2020 fire season (was) “the most deadly and destructive in history, with over 9,600 wildfires scorching over 4 million acres, burning over 10,400 buildings, causing 31 deaths, and creating the first ‘gigafire’ in the state’s history.”
The transition from Trump to Biden is already being felt in San Diego [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
It’s only been a few days, and already the official transition of power in Washington, D.C., has touched San Diego in concrete ways.
A flurry of executive orders from President Joe Biden’s first 24 hours in office has halted construction on border wall projects, pledged further protection for the county’s 27,000 DACA recipients, and frozen deportation orders for an unknown number of local migrants.
The immediate changes, if only temporary, mark the sharp ideological contrast between the Trump and Biden administrations, and are just the beginning of more drastic changes expected in the coming days and weeks.
The unemployment rate in San Diego County area rose to 8% in December 2021, up from 6.6% in November and well above the year-ago unemployment rate of 2.8%,.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The unemployment rate in San Diego County area rose to 8% in December, up from 6.6% in November and well above the year-ago unemployment rate of 2.8%, according to figures released Friday by the state Employment Development Department.
The statewide unadjusted unemployment rate was 8.8%, up from 7.9% in November. The rate is 6.5% for the nation, up from 6.4% in November.
According to the EDD, total non-farm employment in San Diego County decreased by 5,300 jobs month-over-month from 1,424,900 to 1,419,600 while farm employment dropped from 9,200 to 8,600.
According to the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, the loss of jobs over the holiday season is atypical, and last year was particularly hard on those making less than $41,000 a year.