A City at a Crossroads: Elections, Pollution, and a Budget Reckoning
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Four days before Veterans Day, with Santa Ana winds pushing temperatures into the high eighties, San Diego is confronting a week that could reshape city and county governance for the next decade. Election results continue shifting, a new financial outlook from City Hall offers genuine but qualified relief, and fresh scientific reporting dramatically expands the known reach of Tijuana River pollution.
County Measures A and B — a charter governance overhaul and a half-cent sales tax, respectively — both held slim but steady leads through Friday's tally, though no results are yet certified. The county canvass closes on or before December 3rd. Meanwhile, city council races in Districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 are coming into focus, with the incoming members set to inherit an infrastructure crisis that no budget projection has yet solved.