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Good morning, San Diego ☀️
Here’s what we have for you today:
- Our event with CalMatters is at our Bankers Hill newsroom tonight, and you’re invited! We’ll demystify the measures on your November ballot (and feed you pizza).
- And shoutout to reader Bryan McNutt, who correctly guessed “A” or “400,000 residents” as the answer to yesterday’s news quiz. That’s how many residents’ yearly water supply the Carlsbad desalination plant produces according to the San Diego County Water Authority.
Andrew Keatts
General manager and editor
Top story
Parents and young daughter found dead inside San Carlos home
Police found the bodies of an eighth-grade girl and her parents inside the family’s San Carlos home Wednesday.
They died of apparent gunshot wounds, the San Diego Police Department said. Police recovered a gun in the home and homicide detectives are working to determine who fired the fatal shots. Police have not released the names because other family members have not been notified yet.
“It is with a heavy heart that I share the unexpected passing of one of our eighth-grade students due to an event in their home,” Pershing Middle’s Principal Kristy Aragon wrote in a message to parents. “We are deeply saddened by this loss, and our thoughts and heartfelt condolences are with those closest to the student and family.”
That wasn’t the only traumatic event in San Diego yesterday.
In North Park, an SDPD officer shot a man who was wielding a torch and attempting to set fire to a sex shop on 30th Street.
Officers were called to the scene after he was reportedly breaking car windows with a hammer near El Cajon Boulevard. As they attempted to stop him, two officers and a police dog suffered burn injuries. The officers shot him with a beanbag shotgun before using their service weapons.
Following the shooting, SDPD closed roads around 30th Street and Polk Avenue for most of the day, eventually reopening them to normal traffic after 11 p.m.
Here’s to a happier Thursday, San Diego.
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Stories you should know about
🤖 Poway is on its way to banning AI companies from building data centers in the city: The council cited water and energy demands from data centers, and said the city’s remaining developable land should be reserved for businesses that generate more jobs and tax revenue.
• The council’s final vote on the ban is set for Oct. 6.
🚨 A new Trump administration rule is going into effect this week that could lead immigrant households to forgo safety-net programs: The new rule would allow the federal government to weigh an immigrant’s use of public benefits when considering their immigration application. That means undocumented parents might not enroll in programs their citizen children qualify for, for fear it could hurt their applications.
🌅 Local artist Michael James Slattery practices luminism, a 19th-century style that focuses on the glowing effects of light and atmosphere in landscapes : The Midway-based artist uses the technique to create ghostly representations of the Ocean Beach Pier, Pacific Beach boardwalk and other local icons.
What else we’re reading
🤖 The city of San Diego is in talks with Madison AI, which says it can process every city document and use AI to write new policies for officials to vote on. (Axios San Diego)
🤘 Metallica is coming back to San Diego this spring, for the first time since 2017 (CBS 8)
🗳️ Nearly ten years ago, Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe shocked City Hall by knocking off an incumbent councilmember, fueled by community support. Suddenly, Montgomery Steppe’s former chief of staff — Councilmember Henry Foster — finds himself in the same situation, only he’s the incumbent looking to fend off a community-backed challenge from Martha Abraham. (Voice of San Diego)
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