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Good morning, San Diego ☀️
Here’s what we have for you today:
- College Area pushes for safer streets at planning board meeting.
- La Mesa is the latest to ban high-speed e-bikes for kids under 12.
- And shout out to reader Tom Colthurst who was the first to correctly guess yesterday’s news quiz. If you guessed 34 wells or D, you were correct too! Check out the article here. 😊
Tessa Balc
Audience engagement producer
Top story
Starving seabirds line San Diego’s coast. Rising ocean temperatures are to blame
As TOSD’s resident Gen-Zer, I spend some time on the internet looking for stories. Yesterday I saw a Reddit post questioning why there seem to be more dead birds than usual on La Jolla’s shoreline. San Diegans had some ideas as to why, so we sent our Thomas Murphy to report it out.
If you’ve heard about this phenom before, it was related to an uptick in toxic algae — right now, it’s because the birds are starving.
Why? It boils down to the same reason we’ll be seeing more Great White sharks near our coasts this year. The water is getting warmer, faster.
When water warms up there’s less oxygen in it and fish can’t survive. So, they swim further down to where they can get the oxygen they need. That’s bad news for the birds. They can’t dive deep enough to grab a meal, and starvation ensures. I’ll leave it to the experts to break it down further for you.
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Stories you should know about
🎄 Gloria relents on December Nights, some community cuts in budget revise: But there was no change to a $12M cut to arts funding and the dissolution of the Office of Youth Success.
🔥 Investigators are looking into the May 9 fire that destroyed the Mission Bay Boat & Ski Club: The 86-year-old organization is conducting its business from a makeshift “tent city” outdoors.
🌊 San Diegans got an update on the $32M plan to reinforce Sunset Cliffs’ seawall: The effort to curb erosion is drawing some questions from residents on project’s cost and timing.
🐘 Opinion: Democrats weigh new taxes and blame Trump for California’s deficit
What else we’re reading
🚻 Under the Mayor’s current proposed budget, over half of the city’s already sparse public restrooms would close. (Voice of San Diego)
🧊 California calls this company a charity. It’s the landlord for an ICE detention center. (KPBS)
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