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Politics Report: End Of Year Politics Awards
We compiled a sort of “best of” issue for the end of the year.

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We compiled a sort of “best of” issue for the end of the year.

A Superior Court judge dismissed an 1899 deed restriction that has complicated plans to redevelop the long-vacant old downtown library.
Now-former San Diego City Councilmember Chris Cate's exit-interview.
San Diego leaders say they are focused on increasing homelessness prevention efforts and delivering more service options.
Plus: San Diego Leaders’ homelessness resolutions for 2023 and Chris Cate bids farewell.
Universal Transitional Kindergarten has siphoned the most profitable demographic of children from private childcare providers.
Plus: Anti-Vaxxers aren’t the cartoon figures some imagine and Chula Vista is sending Councilwoman Andrea Cardenas to SANDAG.
San Diego’s threat to build its own pipeline to the Colorado River instead of paying Los Angeles for water has been abandoned for now.
The first year of offering universal transitional kindergarten programs brought new students, but trends suggest continued trouble.
San Diego is about to embark on the most serious effort to rebuild City Hall since 2009.
Plus: To appoint or not to appoint, that is the SANDAG question.
A Superior Court judge ordered the city to file new civil complaints against ex-real estate adviser Jason Hughes.
Plus: The new all-Democratic San Diego City Council unanimously chose to keep Councilman Sean Elo-Rivera as council president.
This week on the podcast, Voice journalists Jesse Marx and Will Huntsberry unleash an authoritative account of Covid: Year Two.
Hasan Ikhrata is still standing by a plan to charge drivers for every mile they drive, and whether he thinks it’s time for him to leave.
After seeing a rapidly growing need, La Posada de Guadalupe is extending their services to homeless women and children.
San Diegans are falling into homelessness more quickly than they can be moved off the street.
Vista’s City Council could not agree on who would represent the city on SANDAG’s board, leaving the city with no vote on the regional agency
Plus: Vista won’t have representation on SANDAG, latest homelessness data and behind the Covid Year Two investigation.
Voice of San Diego reporters spent months logging and analyzing death certificates for the second year of the pandemic.