A Region Booming and Bracing at Once
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 finds San Diego in a state of productive contradiction: defense contracts measured in the billions, biotech labs flush with venture capital, and — on the same ledger — a beloved craft brewer filing layoff notices alongside a tech company trimming more than a hundred local positions. The prosperity is real. So is the precarity.
Today's coverage spans the full arc of that tension, from a proposed half-cent sales tax that could reshape how the county funds the Tijuana River sewage crisis, to a constitutional standoff between the County Board of Supervisors and Sheriff Kelly Martinez over immigration enforcement, to what San Diego Unified's sweeping Chromebook restriction policy actually looks like now that more than 100,000 students are back in classrooms.