{"id":767280,"date":"2026-05-02T03:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/767280\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:03:17","slug":"vosd-podcast-the-meteor-heading-for-the-citys-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/767280\/","title":{"rendered":"VOSD Podcast: The Meteor Heading for the City&#8217;s Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego\u2019s budget could be in a lot of trouble if voters repeal the city\u2019s trash fee. <\/p>\n<p>City leaders say if that happens, their only option would be to cut up to $150 million from city services like stormwater, fire and police departments. Our hosts explain what\u2019s at stake. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also on the show: <\/strong>The county governance reforms are marching forward. But one state Senator says her fellow Democrats need to change the plan before it goes on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally:<\/strong> Former Voice of San Diego reporter Ashly McGlone stopped by to talk about her new project <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/he-was-in-vietnam-before-the-war-began-reconnaissance\/id1537933985?i=1000763749356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Reconnaissance Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Vietnam War America knows, James Lyle Steele, an original Marine reconnaissance man, was in it. Operating at the leading edge of a brutal, evolving conflict \u2014 poisoned bamboo, booby traps, tunnels, ambushes, and helicopter assaults\u2014 he faced a war that demanded constant vigilance. This episode offers Steele\u2019s firsthand account of the war before most Americans realized it had begun, detailing the constant, deadly reality of his experience.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Listen Here Now<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/voice-of-san-diego\/id430101991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Apple<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3IQZhsufOOrCOY86X8CfSm?si=Nt-5nrFnQnCwePbg3u9cqw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/430101991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">PodLink<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego\u2019s budget could be in a lot of trouble if voters repeal the city\u2019s trash fee. City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":767281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-767280","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-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116502764234809694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767280","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=767280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}