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Good morning, San Diego 🌤️
Here’s what we have for you today:
- Assemblyman Carl DeMaio and the state GOP are fighting again. Hard to imagine, innit?
- California has six weeks of gas left. After that, it gets expensive (or, more expensive, really).
- You’ve got until the end of the day Monday to register, if you want your vote to count in the June primary.
Andrew Keatts
General manager and editor
Top story
The seismic hazard in our backyard — What San Diegans don’t know about the potentially deadly Rose Canyon Fault
Local geologists are rarely surprised when a developer breaks through the ground to learn that the project they had in mind is positioned atop a strand of the Rose Canyon Fault.
It takes those intermittent, haphazard reveals to find each fissure, because the sprawling fault zone underneath our city is nonetheless poorly mapped. It’s a relic of San Diego’s early, rapid urbanization, in which we poured concrete first and asked questions later.
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake on Rose Canyon could kill between 300 and 800 people and cause some $38 billion in damages, per a 2020 report, as our Tommy Murphy outlines in a story breaking down the oft-overlooked seismic hazard in our backyard.
• Remember all the hullaballoo about the Seaport Village redevelopment about ten years ago, which you might have noticed has not led to Seaport Village’s redevelopment? Yea, finding a fault line under the area in 2017 scrambled things.
• That big hole in the ground downtown that was supposed to be a high rise? Sure enough: fault line, as Murphy reported last week.
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Stories you should know about
📚 Inside the book signing that sold-out the Cygnet Theatre: A local bookstore is bringing in some big name authors, and crowds are flocking to meet them.
🗳️ Panicked Democrats are pushing voters to wait to turn in their ballots: With no clear gubernatorial frontrunner, scrambling Dems are telling supporters to hold off and see who’s leading in the polls closer to Election Day.
🥊 The California GOP accused Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio of ‘deceiving voters’: The party demanded Reform California stop distributing a “Republican Official Endorsement Guide, which they claim is intended to look like an official Republican endorsement guide.
🏗️In the unsettled governor’s race, candidates don’t have a lot of disagreements on housing: They’re all YIMBYs, basically.
💐 It’s not a secret garden tour if it’s not a secret: The Brunfelsia pauciflora blooms in three colors over three days, and its on display at a yet-to-be-revealed garden today, during the La Jolla’s Secret Garden Tour.
📢 Opinion: Amid hostile political rhetoric, we must remember we’re all Americans.
What else we’re reading
👀 Officials at the Del Mar Union High School District thought a student lived outside district boundaries, so they hired a private investigator to follow the kid to school and monitor their home (Voice of San Diego)
🏘️ A San Diego household needs to earn $50.12 per hour to afford the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment, according to a new report from an affordable housing industry group. (10 News)
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What to do this weekend
Need weekend plans? We’ve got you. ⭐ = free
🌸 Asian Pacific Cultural Festival at Balboa Park (Today, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.) ⭐️
🌞 Goldenpalooza (Today, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.) ⭐️
🍝 Taste of Ramona (Today, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.)