Daily Business Report: August 28, 2026
MTS Wants Fletcher Accuser to Pay Nearly $800K in Legal Bills
By Lisa Halverstadt and MacKenzie Elmer | Voice of San Diego
The Metropolitan Transit System is trying to collect more than $775,000 in attorney fees and costs from Grecia Figueroa, a fired former employee who sued the agency and alleged sexual harassment and assault against former MTS chair Nathan Fletcher.
Lori Saldaña, a former assemblymember, raised concerns about the transit agency’s action to seek attorney fees from Figueroa during public comment at a July MTS meeting.
“Are you aware that you’re requesting a million dollars in legal fees from the woman who filed these allegations against former Chairman Nathan Fletcher?” she asked the board. “She is now working at a minimum wage job. There is no way that she is going to pay a million dollars in legal fees.”
by Jennifer Vigil | Times of San Diego
It feels a little naïve at this point to be aghast and agog over Waymo.
The driverless taxi service, which began autonomous operations in Phoenix six years ago, is coming to San Diego as you may have heard.
Or seen, actually. The sleek misty blue Ojai edition – manufactured not by a carmaker you’d readily recognize, but by Zeekr, a Chinese brand – has been visible, meandering over parts of town for months, and even more so in recent weeks.
County Nursing Facility Plagued by Racism, Sexual Harassment and Sex Tapes
by Lisa Halverstadt| Voice of San Diego
In recent years, employees at the county’s Edgemoor skilled nursing facility have been plagued by racial tension, sexual harassment and sex tapes. Then county behavioral health officials last year promoted an administrative analyst who worked elsewhere in the department just months after an investigation found she made a racist comment during an online diversity training.
Yet top county officials claim they only learned the “specific details” of the incidents after Voice of San Diego took the county to court to force the release of misconduct records. County officials responded by firing the county’s behavioral health services director effective Tuesday.
Now former director Nadia Privara is considering her legal options against the county.
