Politics

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<p>The City of San Diego will again start issuing parking tickets after having suspended them during the COVID-19 pandemic</p>
<p>Effective October 15<sup>th</sup>, City parking enforcement officers and police officers will again issue citations for expired meters, unlawful commercial zone use, overtime parking in white and green zones, and other parking restrictions on City streets.</p>
<p>Parking enforcement had been suspended in March in response to state and local sat-at-home orders.</p>

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<p>A dedicated traffic lane for commercial trucks moving to and from the port would help reduce traffic through communities close to the waterfront, including Barrio Logan, Logan Heights, and the East Village.</p>
<p>The plan involves building a dedicated traffic lane for commercial diesel trucks from the Port of San Diego to the I-5 freeway to reduce the truck traffic on local streets which add to congestion but also higher emissions and dangerous air quality in those neighborhoods.</p>

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<em>Editor-at-Large</em></p>
<p>The current San Diego City Attorney and her two immediate predecessors have differing views on who is responsible for the approval of the 101 Ash St building deal, but the City Charter points to only one ultimate legal authority that was empowered to approve the deal: the current City Attorney, Mara Elliott.</p>

By Herman Baca: Fifty years later, I can still vividly remember what happened to me personally and politically in Los Angeles on August 29, 1970. At the time, I was 27 years old, today I’m 77.