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The San Diego City Council Monday voted to increase the tax rate for cannabis businesses from 8% to 10% as the city faces a looming budget deficit.

On Midday Edition Tuesday, we join NPR's Climate Solutions Week to take a look at how San Diego County farmers are adapting to climate change.

A proposal asking San Diego County to send notice to more than one million residents who could be impacted by potential funding cuts to federal programs failed to advance Tuesday, after a tie vote by the Board of Supervisors.

The department store chain, founded in 1670, can't pay its debts and says the pandemic, inflation and now trade tensions have hurt its financial future.

In a memo posted to X on Monday morning, the secretary of state said 5,200 contracts had been canceled following a six-week review.

Rarely seen Shakespearean epic involves San Diego community on multiple levels.

Federal layoffs at Haskell Indian Nations University disrupted classes, financial aid and the women's basketball team. Now, tribes and students have sued, saying the cuts broke treaty obligations.

About 30,000 fewer Americans die each year from street drugs. Survivors in one of the most drug-scarred cities say their community is trying to help, but the safety net feels dangerously thin.

The decades-long binational sewage crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border continues to threaten the health of millions of people.

Known world wide as The Queen of Boogie Woogie, The Sultana of Swing, and The Lady Who Skates on the 88s, Sue Palmer has been a presence on the live music scene in San Diego and the world for over 30 years. She was inducted into the San Diego Music Hall of Fame in 2018, has had a day named after her by the city of San Diego in 2008, and has won numerous San Diego Music Awards for her bands and albums. She has recorded over 12 albums under her own name, securing an international award from The International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis for Best Self Produced Album ("Sophisticated Ladies"). She was the beehive wearing music director and longtime pianist for blues diva Candye Kane, through the 90s, appearing on many of her albums, touring world wide (France, Germany, England, The Czech Republic, Turkey, South Africa, Australia, and more) as well as all over the US and parts of Canada. Sue has also toured Switzerland, Russia, The Netherlands, and Argentina under her own name. She had a radio show for 3 years on San Diego's local Jazz station KSDS 88.3FM, and now hosts a podcast called "The Motel Swing Happy Hour KSUE San Diego." ( suepalmer.com, Spotify, Google Play, iTunes ) According to Claudia Russell, DJ Extraordinaire on KSDS 88.3FM, "When her heavily jeweled hands hit the 88s, you're in for a ride!" WATCH OUT: YOU may become a slave to the dance floor!! Sue Palmer on Facebook See More Events www.booksandrecrodsbar.com www.bardicmanagement.com/events