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Roundtable: Convention Center Plan Sidetracked

By Bennett Lacy / Producer, Mark Sauer / Host, The Roundtable, Bennett Lacy / Producer, Mark Sauer / Host, The Roundtable

Published August 10, 2018 at 8:37 AM PDT

This story was published more than 6 years ago.

The San Diego Convention Center is seen in the background in this photo taken March 4, 2018.

Roundtable: Convention Center Plan Sidetracked

Roundtable: Convention Center Plan Sidetracked PANEL: Megan Burks, reporter, KPBS News Matthew T. Hall, editorial and opinion director, The San Diego Union-Tribune Jade Hindmon, reporter, KPBS News Lori Weisberg, reporter, The San Diego Union-Tribune

City Council Takes On Convention Center Expansion

The San Diego city clerk’s office announced this week that signatures for a citizens’ initiative to expand the convention center need further review. As a result, supporters will not meet a deadline to be placed on the November ballot. Mayor Kevin Faulconer reacted by calling for the city to place its own initiative on the ballot, which would require a more difficult two-thirds threshold for passage. Late Thursday, the San Diego City Council turned down Faulconer's request.

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Family Deportations On Hold, Students Warned Of Visa Risk

Local universities are warning international students and staff that there are now steeper penalties for those who overstay visas, including deportation. This is the latest in a series of moves by the Trump administration on immigration-related issues. Also this week, a federal judge in San Diego refused to drop a temporary restraining order that effectively keeps families together as they decide whether to go through the asylum seeking process.

The Politics Of Wildfire Response

California’s wildfires escalated this week. The Mendocino Complex in Northern California is now the second fire in less than a year to become the largest in state history. It’s one of many serious fires burning across the state. The issue became political this week when President Trump used it as an opportunity to criticize Governor Jerry Brown over the state’s water management policy.

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Bennett Lacy

Ben Lacy is a producer for KPBS Evening Edition and KPBS Roundtable.

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Mark Sauer

A newspaperman for more than 30 years, Mark Sauer joined KPBS in October 2010 and previously served as the host of the KPBS Roundtable. He spent 27 years as a reporter and editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune after stints at The Houston Post and at two papers in his native Michigan. A features/human-interest writer in the UT's Currents section for many years, Mark also spent about a third of his UT career as an editor and reporter on the Metro Desk. He has covered a wide range of events: Wild fires in Southern California and Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast; Super Bowls and the World Series; foster care and child-abuse issues; the Roman Catholic Diocese's sexual-abuse scandal and bankruptcy; royal visits of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Princess Diana; Republican and Democratic national conventions; high-profile criminal trials; and many other stories, from the silly to the sublime. Along the way, he interviewed everyone from presidents to pan-handlers. His work exposing the false accusations and prosecutions of several San Diegans for murder, rape and child abuse garnered Pulitzer Prize nominations and many regional and local journalism awards, including Best in the West, the Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism and several San Diego and California bar-association awards. Mark has a degree in journalism from Michigan State University.

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Bennett Lacy

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Mark Sauer

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