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Where are the kids? Taxpayers deserve an answer - Escondido Times-Advocate (opens the original)
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Last week, more than 250 federal, state and local officers fanned out across San Diego County. They arrested 12 people and searched a dozen homes that were supposed to be operating as daycares. When the Justice Department unsealed the charges, the picture got worse. Prosecutors say these “ghost daycares” collected more than $10 million in childcare subsidies for children who were never there. That should make every taxpayer in this county angry. It makes me angry. This money wasn’t a slush fund.
The rain will come, let’s not be surprised by it - Escondido Times-Advocate (opens the original)
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I’ve lived in North County a long time, and I know how our rainy season goes. We go weeks without a drop. Then one storm rolls through and we’ve got water across the road, mud coming off a hillside, and folks asking why nobody told them it was coming. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has an El Niño advisory in effect, and its forecasters now put better than a nine in ten chance on a very strong event this fall and winter. Some of them are using the word historic. I’ll b
The Wins You Never See - Valley Roadrunner (opens the original)
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Four years ago I stood up at a Board of Supervisors meeting and said something a lot of people in county government were not ready to hear. Fentanyl is not a drug problem. It is a poisoning. Kids in our county were dying from a single pill they thought was something else. In 2021, twelve San Diegans under the age of 17 died that way. The youngest was thirteen years old. I said then that we were going to treat it like the poison it is. Last week the County released numbers I have been waiting fou
The wins you never see - Escondido Times-Advocate (opens the original)
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Four years ago I stood up at a Board of Supervisors meeting and said something a lot of people in county government were not ready to hear. Fentanyl is not a drug problem. It is a poisoning. Kids in our county were dying from a single pill they thought was something else. In 2021, twelve San Diegans under the age of 17 died that way. The youngest was thirteen years old. I said then that we were going to treat it like the poison it is. Last week the County released numbers I have been waiting fou
Free diapers for North County families - Escondido Times-Advocate (opens the original)
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Welcoming a new baby is one of life’s greatest joys, but let’s be honest about something we don’t say enough: it’s expensive. Diapers alone can run a family hundreds of dollars a month, and for many households in our community, that expense adds up fast, competing with rent, groceries, and everything else that keeps a family afloat. That’s why I’m proud to invite our community to a free Diaper Giveaway, hosted in partnership with the County of San Diego, on Saturday, August 29, from 10 a.m. to n
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