City leaders were warned the fire systems were not operable, but City staff then misrepresented the building status to the press, the public, and even the San Diego Ethics Commission.
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<p>The number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 cases in the United States today passed half a million people, totaling more than the number of people that would die in 2,777 crashes of the now-notorious 737 Max airplanes that were grounded last year after two crashes killed 346 people.</p>
<p>Worldwide, a total of 2,477,839 people have died. Deaths in the US account for more than 20% of worldwide deaths, even though the US only has about 5% of the world’s population.</p>
Downtown high-rise building purchased as a new space for over 1,100 staffers was closed down last year over asbestos exposure, but a greater threat to people in the building could have been uncontrollable fires.
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<p>Congressional Democrats have authored a bill to provide a legal path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants already in the US, fulfilling one of Joe Biden’s biggest campaign promises.</p>
<p>The bill outlines an eight-year path to gaining citizenship, but reduced that timeframe to three years for some farmer workers, immigrants that were brought into the US as minors, and those who were granted temporary protected status for fleeing natural and manmade disasters.</p>
Gloria ignores questions about two thorny issues facing the City despite repeated requests for comments and numerous opportunities to address the growing scandals. And what ever happened with ‘footnote 15’?
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<p>Daily COVID-19 case numbers dropped again on Sunday but a shortage of vaccines forced the shutdown of a super station location at downtown’s Petco Park stadium parking lot.</p>
<p>Sunday’s new case count was 568 new cases and 488 deaths, a lower rate than in previous weeks when daily number topped 1,000 per day. The County reported 13,400 tests on Sunday with a positive rate of only 4%. Hospitalization were up by 27 patients and four infected individuals were admitted into UCI beds.</p>
The new Biden Administration will start allowing asylum seekers stuck in Mexico to enter and stay in US while their cases are pending, reversing Trump’s policy that standed tens of thousands of migrants in Mexican border towns.
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<p>The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution today that declares the pollution and sewage entering the US from the Tijuana River Valley to be a public health crisis for the South County region.</p>
<p>The resolution, offered by newly-elected Supervisor Nora Vargas, calls attention to the health concerns related to toxic sewage and pollution that spills over the border and contaminates San Diego beaches as far north as La Jolla.</p>
El Senado de los Estados Unidos confirmó hoy a Alejandro Mayorkas, el nombramiento del presidente Joe Biden, para servir como es el primer Latino y el primer inmigrante Secretario del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional.
The US Senate today confirmed President Joe Biden’s appointment of Alejandro Mayorkas, becoming the first Latino and the first immigrant to serve as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.