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The donors are tied to former San Diego Police Det. Ernie Encinas, who was scheduled to be sentenced Monday in connection with the campaign finance scandal involving Mexican businessman Jose Susumo Azano Matsura. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe City Council voted to move forward a plan to close Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama to cars and reroute them to a new parking garage. There are several questions on how the city will pay for the project, which has grown in cost by $30 million. -
Mayor Kevin Faulconer has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation meant to accelerate redevelopment in southeastern San Diego. The center is in the midst of a major shift in funding sources. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe San Diego City Council reconvenes Monday after a one-month recess. Some of the biggest items on the agenda are four community plan updates, one of which has hit a delay over environmental concerns. -
Labor Day marks the unofficial start of November races -
The Center for Digital Government recognizes the city of San Diego's redesigned website, which debuted in March. -
If recreational pot becomes legal, San Diego wants to tax its sales. The city's Climate Action Plan predicts thousands will quit driving to work. And San Diego's school district makes pre-K available to all — for a price. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe illegal campaign finance case of José Susumo Azano Matsura is now in the hands of a jury. The Mexican businessman is charged with illegally giving money to San Diego candidates in the 2012 mayoral race. -
Democrats for Equality, San Diego's LGBT Democratic club, has launched a campaign to register 4,000 new voters by Election Day. The group is doing so with a $78,000 grant. -
KPBS Midday EditionEstimates are difficult to make for how much legalizing marijuana will cost San Diego and how much revenue a local pot tax, Measure N, will generate.
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