Philip Molnar News Today

This year’s Comic-Con may look different as an ongoing writers strike has several major studios staying away this year. Plus, the San Diego Padres had high expectations coming into the season, but at the midway point of the season the team has lost more games than they’ve won.

State officials are projecting a $25 billion budget deficit for next year. The news is a stark contrast to back-to-back years of record budget surpluses in California. Then, rents are down in San Diego county by almost 5% but the same economic forces that are pushing rents down are also slowing what was on track to be a record year for housing construction in the county. And, women trying to climb the ranks in law enforcement sometimes have to battle sexism, toxic masculinity, even sexual harass...

Last month's median rental price data indicates that rents in the area are down 4.6%.

This year’s point-in-time count by the Regional Task Force on Homelessness found increases in the number of senior, disabled and Black San Diegans who are living without permanent shelter. The task force is setting up ad-hoc committees to find out why current programs aren’t meeting the needs of those populations and how to address those needs. Next, a new program to expand access to therapists for mothers experiencing high-risk pregnancies. Plus, a report from a real estate data analyst fin...

What should California do with its estimated $20 billion budget surplus? The second year of an enormous budget surplus makes us wonder, should California cut taxes?

While good news from the pandemic is few and far between, a recent report indicated that the personal wealth of San Diegans actually grew in the previous year.

A large new master planned development in San Diego offers another anecdote about the state of the real estate market in 2021.