Daily Business Report: May 19, 2026
Sacramento Report: Newsom’s Final Budget
by Nadia Lathan| Voice of San Diego
It was a big week at the Capitol. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled his final budget proposal, launching budget negotiations in earnest ahead of a June 30 deadline. At the same time, lawmakers killed dozens of costly bills amid concerns over California’s looming deficit.
Here’s what you need to know and what San Diego’s lawmakers had to say.
By Thomas Murphy | Times of San Diego
Professor Tina Zeidan, who teaches geology at Southwestern College, thinks San Diegans focus too much on the famed San Andreas Fault, and too little on the earthquake danger in their own backyard.
“When I teach about earthquakes, I pull up a map,” she said. “I say, ‘We have a fault that runs right through San Diego, goes under the convention center and then through Mt. Soledad in La Jolla. Do you know the name of that fault?’”
“No one,” Zeidan said, “not one student in my 11 years of teaching, knows.”
Del Mar Union School District Hired Private Investigators to Spy on an Elementary Student
By Jackob McWhiney | Voice of San Diego
One morning in April 2024, as a mother was driving her child to school, she called the police. Someone was following her.
The driver was in a BMW with tinted windows too dark to make out who was inside. But she recognized the car because she’d seen it outside of her home multiple times. She’d also seen it following her before.
As she neared her child’s elementary school, a 911 dispatcher sent out units. They told her they’d stay on the phone until officers confronted the driver, according to a police call log.
