Daily Business Report: Thursday, June 19, 2025
Supe Candidates Spar Over Taxes, Homelessness – And Trump
By Jim Hinch | Voice of San Diego
There might as well have been three candidates in Tuesday night’s San Diego County Board of Supervisors District 1 debate: Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre, Chula Vista Mayor John McCann – and President Donald Trump.
The debate, televised on ABC 10News and moderated by 10News anchor Kimberly Hunt, ostensibly focused on top local issues in the race to fill a vacant South County seat on the five-member Board of Supervisors: Housing, homelessness, immigration, the Tijuana River sewage crisis and the county budget.
But Aguirre, a Democrat, repeatedly turned the conversation back to Trump, reprising her top campaign attack line against McCann that, as a Republican, he would bring to San Diego what Aguirre called “MAGA politics in Washington.”
Union Pushing $30 Wage Won’t Pay Their Own Canvassers the ‘Living Wage’ They Demand
By Katy Grimes | California Globe
In a 12-3 vote last month, the Los Angeles City Council approved a minimum wage hike for airport and hotel workers, with the goal of reaching $30 an hour by 2028 – in time for the Los Angeles hosted Olympics, the Globe reported.
Just a little opportunistic? Oh Hell yes. This $30 per hour wage will clearly help facilitate the demise of the Los Angeles tourism industry – and possibly the LA28 Olympics. Behind this destructive move is labor union Unite Here Local 11, which represents hotel and airport workers.
When did LA become such a cataclysmic hellhole, and why would anyone want the 2028 Olympics there? This is a march to Marxism, cloaked as social justice.
California has the worst tippers in the country
By Kate Murphy, Alex Fitzpatrick | Axios
Californians are the worst tippers in the country, according to new Toast data.
By the numbers: California diners leave 17.3% on average, compared to 18.8% nationwide, per Toast’s latest restaurant trends report.
- Delaware, West Virginia and New Hampshire tip the most at nearly 21% or more, per the report. Washington (17.8%) is at the bottom with California.
