Coalition opposes sales-tax increase<\/b> A crowd of concerned citizens, including taxpayer and business advocates and elected officials, gathered at the Westfield University Towne Center on June 12 to express opposition to a proposed half-cent sales-tax increase in the city of San Diego. Speakers advocated pension reform, managed competition and spending cuts instead of resorting to tax increases. City Councilmen Carl DeMaio and Kevin Faulconer addressed the crowd, in addition to representatives from various companies and organizations. The Lincoln Club of San Diego County, a business-oriented political action committee, organized the event. Guardabosques ahora vigilando la piscina infantil<\/b> Como parte de un plan de gesti\u00f3n aprobado por el Concejo Municipal de San Diego en mayo, un guardaparques financiado con donaciones privadas ha sido estacionado en Children's Pool cerca de La Jolla Cove para mediar en las relaciones entre humanos y focas. Randal (Randy) Hawley comenz\u00f3 como guardabosques provisional el fin de semana pasado y continuar\u00e1 trabajando hasta que se pueda contratar a un guardabosques permanente, un proceso que puede llevar varios meses, seg\u00fan un comunicado de la oficina del alcalde Jerry Sanders. Hawley ha trabajado como guardaparques durante m\u00e1s de 28 a\u00f1os y se retir\u00f3 de su puesto como guardaparques supervisor en el Departamento de Parques y Recreaci\u00f3n de San Diego. Sus responsabilidades inmediatas en Children's Pool incluir\u00e1n revisar los letreros en el sitio e iniciar esfuerzos para comenzar un programa de docentes voluntarios, seg\u00fan el comunicado. Rachel Laing de la oficina de Sanders dijo que Hawley estar\u00e1 en el sitio los s\u00e1bados, domingos y al menos tres d\u00edas de la semana, pero su horario variar\u00e1.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Coalition opposes sales-tax increase A crowd of concerned citizens, including taxpayer and business advocates and elected officials, gathered at the Westfield University Towne Center on June 12 to express opposition to a proposed half-cent sales-tax increase in the city of San Diego. Speakers advocated pension reform, managed competition and spending cuts instead of resorting to […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"News briefs: July 15, 2010","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560,11551,11593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-news","category-no-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}