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SAN DIEGO —  The divisiveness that marked San Diego’s choice last week of Dr. Jennifer Campbell as City Council president didn’t extend to Campbell’s choices Tuesday to lead key council committees. Campbell tapped Monica Montgomery Steppe, whom Campbell edged out for council president in a 5-4 vote Thursday, to continue leading the council’s Public Safety Committee, a pivotal job in a year when law enforcement reform will be a hot topic. Campbell also selected Sean-Elo Rivera, who s...

Published December 15, 2020, 1:32 PM TACLOBAN CITY – The province of Leyte will not accept locally stranded individuals (LSIs) until the end of December, a report from the office of the Leyte provincial governor said on Tuesday. Leyte Governor Leopoldo Dominico “Mic” L. Petilla told the Manila Bulletin that the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Disease (RIATF8) and the Regional Task Force on COVID-19 (RTF8), in Joint Resolution No. 42 dated November 25, 2020, appro...

Published December 15, 2020, 2:27 PM Filipino athletes competing in the Tokyo Olympics will be allowed to resume training based on a latest decision of the government pandemic task force. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque announced Tuesday that the athletes’ training must be conducted in a “bubble-type” setting as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The training bubble for national athletes en...

Print In the latest month of the San Diego Convention Center’s unexpected role as a homeless shelter, the city paid $1.6 million in rent to its own nonprofit that runs the bayfront facility and $727,000 in operations and maintenance costs. Other expenses for November included $1.5 million to the charities running the makeshift shelter, $915,000 to feed fewer than 1,000 clients, $343,000 for extra security and thousands of dollars in miscellaneous costs, city records show. In total for Novembe...

90% of provincial, city, municipal LGUs reject communist rebels –DILG By LLANESCA T. PANTI, GMA News Published December 11, 2020 10:02am At least 1,546 of the 1,715 local government units in the country have declared the Communist Party of the Philippines as persona non grata, Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año said Friday. Año said that the 1,546 LGUs consist of 64 provinces, 110 cities, and 1,372 municipalities. In a statement, he also said tha...