Daily Business Report: March 27, 2026
The Collateral Damage from the War on Oil!
by Andy Caldwell | California Globe
I am hoping that none of you are fooled into believing that the recent gasoline price spikes at the pump are due to the war with Iran, because nothing could be further from the truth as it effects California.
Our problem is not the war with Iran, but the war on oil.
I, and many others, such as Katy Grimes from the California Globe, have been reporting for the past year that USC has predicted our gas prices are going to hit $8 per gallon why?
Headaches, rashes, more: Sewage pollution continues to plague South Bay schools
by Deborah Brennan | CalMatters
Last week fog crept over the Tijuana Estuary in Imperial Beach, oozing a pungent rotten-egg smell, as hydrogen sulfide bubbled up from the polluted Tijuana River.
Virginia Castellanos, the school nurse for Bayside STEAM Academy near the estuary, worried that students would get headaches, upset stomachs or breathing problems from the foul odor. She had another pressing concern: her own seven-year-old daughter was home sick with asthma, which flares up when pollution spikes.
“I’ve been having headaches and nausea this whole week,” Castellanos said. “The smell has been so bad. And I was already expecting my daughter to get sick and sure enough, in the last couple days, she’s showing symptoms and she said, ‘Mom, I need my inhaler.’”
North County Report: Not Many Homes for the Low Incomes
By Tigst Layne| Voice of San Diego
It’s that time of the year. Cities and counties are reporting how much progress they made last year in producing housing for people with different income levels.
The state requires jurisdictions to release these reports, called Housing Element Progress Reports. They detail how many housing units for people with incomes ranging from acutely low- to above moderate-levels, developers built.
State housing mandates require cities to make way for housing according to their respective RHNA (Regional Housing Needs Allocation), which is the number of units that each city is required to build. The state housing department, in consultation with SANDAG, determines RHNA numbers for each county. Then, SANDAG allocates specific numbers to each city.
