We were down one member of the show with Andrea Sanchez-Villafa\u00f1a out this week, but don\u2019t worry, Scott Lewis, Bella Ross and Jakob McWhinney held it down. <\/p>\n
First, they unpacked an unfortunate misprint in The San Diego Union-Tribune and reflected on the bigger issue at hand: the shrinking size of the San Diego\u2019s news media ecosystem.<\/p>\n
Then, an update on an effort to collect signatures in support of a half-cent, countywide sales tax increase for the November 2026 ballot.<\/p>\n
On that sales tax:<\/strong> Our Lisa Halverstadt\u00a0shared the news<\/a> that a coalition of labor unions and childcare advocates will embark on the difficult effort to collect 140,000 signatures to qualify for the November 2026 ballot.\u00a0Scott Lewis and the crew break it down.<\/p>\n With 2025 coming to a close, we also thought it would be a good time to discuss what we are looking forward to in 2026. What does the year ahead look like in local politics? We cover it all and get you ready.<\/p>\n Send me a note if you have any feedback at matt.skraby@voiceofsandiego.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n Listen:\u00a0Apple<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0PodLink<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We were down one member of the show with Andrea Sanchez-Villafa\u00f1a out this week, but don\u2019t worry, Scott…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,4368,70165,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-460224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-podcast","12":"tag-sales-tax","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115752527759260155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}