Less than two weeks remain until the second installment of 2009-10 property taxes are due in San Diego County, Treasurer- Tax Collector Dan McAllister said Tuesday.
Because the traditional due date of April 10 falls on a Saturday, the county will accept collections on Monday, April 12, McAllister said.
BY ARTHUR LIPPER
Contributor
To most of the CleanTECH San Diego members attending a recent meeting at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel it seemed inevitable that solar would by be a large part of the electric power coming from alternative and sustainable sources in the future.
Keynote speaker Michael R. Peevey, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, presented both the potential and challenges for solar energy. The panelists, including Byron Washom, UCSD’s director of the Strategic Energy Initiative; Tom Dyer, Kyocera’s vice president of marketing and government affairs, and Daniel Drolet, vice president of business development for PCN Technology made known the problems of storage and transmission facing solar.
The panelists also pointed out the conflict between consumers using solar energy panels becoming self-sufficient in terms of energy use while still being charged for and dependent on the utility for access to the electric grid for emergency and back-up needs.
Police arrested an adult male and female on March 23 in connection with a spree of vehicle break-ins that has plagued coastal North County cities over the last month.
The most recent vehicle break-ins came in Del Mar Heights on Monday, March 22, when seven were reported between 4 and 9:30 p.m.
McClain reads prepared statement thanking district
The Del Mar Union School District trustees are expected to vote to release Superintendent Sharon McClain from her contract at a special meeting on Wednesday, according to board President Comischell Rodriguez.
Rodriquez said Tuesday McClain was notified on Monday that the vote was planned and, McClain requested that the vote be held in open session.
The push is on to save the 43rd Season (2010-2011) of the California Ballet Company through an online fund-raiser with the goal of netting $225,000 by April 13. Go to www.californiaballet.org and click on: “Make a Donation.”
In a press release dated March 29, Director Maxine Mahon said dancers, management and administrative staff have taken salary cuts as the company “fights to push forward into the next season and keep the art of ballet on the stage.”
San Diego and Los Angeles were the only large metropolitan areas to show an increase in housing prices in January 2010 over December 2009, and among the few to post significant gains over the previous year, according to a Standard & Poor’s report released Tuesday.
The S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Indices tracks residential real estate costs in 20 major housing markets against a baseline of 100 set in January 2000, without listing an actual average housing price.
The parents of slain Poway High School senior Chelsea King and state Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher plan to host a two-hour community forum Tuesday as part of their campaign for stricter sex offender legislation.
Fletcher, R-San Diego, and the King family want to enact “Chelsea’s Law,” which would mandate stricter sentencing for violent sex offenders and more intensive monitoring of those who are released from prison.
A federal jury has declared four Callaway golf ball patents invalid in the latest milestone in a longstanding case pitting the Carlsbad-based company against rival Titleist.
The decision, made Monday in Delaware, favors Acushnet Co., the maker of Titleist golf balls, and nullifies an earlier partial victory for Callaway. The two companies have been in a legal battle over the patents since 2006.
The San Diego Chargers bolstered their defensive backfield Monday when Nathan Vasher, a veteran of six NFL seasons with the Chicago Bears (2004-09), agreed to a two-year contract.
Vasher, 28, has started 46 of 73 career NFL games, recording 19 interceptions, including eight in 2005 when he was voted to the NFC Pro Bowl squad. Also that season, Vasher returned a missed field-goal attempt versus San Francisco 108 yards for a touchdown that at the time was the longest play in NFL history.
San Diego City Councilwoman Sherri Lightner on Monday offered a plan in which a lifeguard or ranger would manage the Children’s Pool in La Jolla to maintain a joint-use policy for people and harbor seals.
Lightner said the long-running issue at the Children’s Pool is a “people problem” and not one created by the presence of the seals. She said she hopes the plan eases tensions between those who want to protect the seals and others who want the area returned to its original purpose.
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