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Here’s what we have for you today:
- Dolores Huerta, the labor leader, feminist and civil rights icon who is among the most influential figures in California history, died Wednesday. She was 96.
- The San Diego Neighborhood Project, created by SDSU journalism professor Amy Schmitz Weiss, wants to know before the end of October how you really feel about your neighborhood.
- And shoutout to reader Chuck Dunning, who correctly guessed yesterday’s news quiz question. The answer was “That sounds like bad news.” Read the article we got the question from here.
Andrew Keatts
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Top story
‘Hope it holds’ — after years of flooding, and with El Niño looming, a Southcrest family waits for protection
Marcela Arellano and her Southcrest family are never happy to hear rain is on the way.
Since moving into their house in 1999 — raising a son, repairing the house as much as they could and making it their own — they’ve learned to monitor the stormwater channel that runs behind several properties near Market and 29th streets.
That became more than a concern in 2021. Then, trash and debris had accumulated in a nearby stormwater channel behind an apartment complex. The water stopped flowing along its normal path, she told our Alejandro Maciel in a new story.
Water broke through a wall and flowed into their property. They lost their car, several appliances, furniture and their carpet. Months later they found moisture trapped in the walls had grown into mold.
Now, with warnings of a major El Niño season looming, they’re looking for help from the city before it comes again. They shared their story at a recent planning group meeting in which the city shared its upcoming flood control projects. Some of her neighbors shared similar stories.
Concerns are widespread across the city as the rainy season approaches — Mission Bay this week is offering a glimpse of what could go wrong.
So far, the Arellanos don’t have much reason to calm their fears.
“We just hope it holds,” she said.
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Stories you should know about
🚔 Woman who prompted lockdown detained after returning to San Diego mosque for second straight day: SDPD said she is not facing any charges and was detained for a mental health evaluation.
🗳️ County trades legal threats with feds, labels DOJ call to reject ballots ‘thinly veiled voter purge’: The San Diego County Registrar of Voters said it won’t comply with a federal demand and legal threat to not count ballots from 1,709 voters until their citizenship can be verified.
📹 Opinion: I supported license plate readers. Here’s why I want them reined in: A retired commander for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department argues misuse of a tool this powerful “isn’t a remote possibility. It’s predictable.”
What else we’re reading
👩🏼💼 Toni Atkins — San Diego’s former City Council president, Assembly speaker and state Senate president pro tempore — has a new job: She is now a partner at California Strategies, the powerful public affairs lobbying group with offices all over the state. (CalStrat.com)
🚨 A Guatemalan man who died inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center was misidentified by ICE. (KPBS)
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