{"id":271640,"date":"2025-10-02T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271640\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:34:15","slug":"morning-report-county-official-moonlights-at-law-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271640\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Report: County Official Moonlights at Law Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Emily Do is the county\u2019s full-time chief pharmacy officer, collecting a more than $230,000 annual salary. She\u2019s held that job since 2019.<\/p>\n

Do\u2019s also got a side gig working at a New York-based law firm that says it advises some of the country\u2019s leading pharmaceutical companies, our Lisa Halverstadt reveals.<\/p>\n

Halverstadt tried to dig into whether that\u2019s a conflict of interest. So what did the county say?<\/p>\n

Nothing to see here: <\/strong>Representatives for the county and the law firm that employs Do as a West Coast partner both say there\u2019s not an issue.<\/p>\n

The county also denied Halverstadt\u2019s Public Records Act request seeking forms that Do may have filed disclosing this outside work, stating that releasing such records for activities \u201cnot deemed to constitute a conflict\u201d would invade county staffers\u2019 privacy.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

San Diego Has Impressively Increased New Home Construction<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"AA multifamily housing project in North Park on Nov. 17, 2023. \/ Photo by Ariana Drehsler <\/p>\n

In the last two years, San Diego nearly doubled the number of new homes it permitted in earlier years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This new supply isn\u2019t enough to fill the region\u2019s insatiable demand, but it is an impressive increase that was not mirrored in many other parts of the state.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

2024<\/strong> \u2013 8782 new homes<\/p>\n

2023<\/strong> \u2013 9695 new homes<\/p>\n

2022<\/strong> \u2013 5347 new homes<\/p>\n

2021<\/strong> \u2013 5032 new homes<\/p>\n

This data comes from Voice of San Diego\u2019s Public Matters Partnership with KPBS. (You can read more from our housing series In Whose Backyard here<\/a>.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

San Diego\u2019s increase is doubly impressive because it bucked the trend. Throughout the rest of San Diego County, housing production was essentially flat in 2023 and 2024, Voice\u2019s analysis found. Statewide, housing production went down slightly in those two years<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBy permitting more homes, we\u2019re easing the pressures on the housing market, and helping it make [the] cost of living a bit more manageable for San Diegans,\u201d said Mayor Todd Gloria, CBS 8 reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Learning Curve: SD Unified Pauses Move to 4X4 Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Board President Cody Petterson (right), Board Trustee Sharon Whitehurst-Payne (second from left), Student Board Member Ashley Ordaz (center), Board Trustee Sabrina Bazzo (second from left), and Board Action Officer Marty Stultz (left) during a San Diego Unified School District meeting on Sept. 30, 2025, in University Heights. \/ Ariana Drehsler for Voice of San Diego<\/p>\n

San Diego Unified officials pressed pause on their plan to potentially move all high schools over to a 4\u00d74 schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What is a 4\u00d74 schedule, you ask? It\u2019s when high schoolers take four classes in the first half of the school year and four different classes in the last half of the school year. That\u2019s opposed to the more traditional schedule of six classes over the course of the school year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

District officials say moving to the 4\u00d74 schedule will help them achieve certain goals: particularly offering a more diverse array of courses to students.<\/p>\n

Some parents, however, have revolted against the plan. Don\u2019t try to fix what isn\u2019t broken, they say.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, board members voted to temporarily halt any plans to move all high schools to the new schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read the full Learning Curve here<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

On The Ground for the Riverbed Homeless Census Count<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"AnAn encampment in the San Diego River on Aug. 22, 2023. \/ Photo by Ariana Drehsler <\/p>\n

Since 2013, the San Diego River Park Foundation has conducted an annual count<\/a> of people living in the San Diego River area. The latest census counted 323 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While their overall total is down compared to fall of last year, they have also seen an uptick in people living in vehicles. The latest count documented 83 people living in their cars along the riverbed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our reporters joined volunteers on the ground for the census, and to understand how enforcement crackdowns<\/a> are driving people into isolated spaces and areas that are harder for outreach workers to reach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Check out the video here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Politifest: How Will We Solve the Cross-Border Sewage Crisis?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raw sewage and trash has been spilling into the United States via the Tijuana River from Mexico for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Join Environment Reporter MacKenzie Elmer this Saturday<\/a> as we put local thinkers and idea makers to the test on solving some of San Diego\u2019s greatest problems at Politifest 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

At 10 a.m., she\u2019ll have former IBWC Commissioner Maria Elena-Giner join a panel alongside important voices from Baja California\u2019s engineering and academic spaces to present solutions to the Tijuana River sewage crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Get your tickets here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In Other News<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Morning Report was written by Lisa Halverstadt, Will Huntsberry and Jim Hinch. It was edited by Andrea Sanchez-Villafa\u00f1a. <\/p>\n

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