Daily Business Report: November 10, 2026
Lawsuit alleges San Diego blocked its only female lifeguard captain from top job
By Dorian Hargrove | Times of San Diego
A little over a month after the City of San Diego fired its top lifeguard for mishandling a sexual harassment complaint, the second-highest-ranking lifeguard is now suing the city and department for barring her from applying for the top lifeguard post, allegedly hiring a less qualified man instead.
In a newly filed lawsuit, Maureen Hodges, the city’s first and only female captain, says the city refused to let her apply for the open chief position after former Chief James Gartland was terminated in early October.
Hodges has served as a San Diego lifeguard for 20 years and currently serves as the department’s Marine Safety Captain of Strategic Operations.
This Bipartisan Bill Could Make Data Centers Pay
by MacKenzie Elmer | Voice of San Diego
Normally this newsletter is dedicated to local San Diego issues. But allow me, for a moment, to fixate on members of Congress.
They’re actually doing something – though how good it will be, on the whole, is up for debate.
A contingent of Democrats and Republicans just wrote the country’s biggest set of permitting reforms in years, and they’re trying to pass it before Democrats take over, following the “blue wave” midterm elections. The reforms would accelerate permitting for energy and transmission projects while also limiting environmental review, and put the onus on data center developers to pay for all their own energy costs.
by Noah Perkins| Times of San Diego
Carlotta Kloppenburg-Pruitt has a lot of history on The Point.
Point Loma Nazarene’s new women’s basketball head coach is following a path that started with Grandpa Bob Kloppenburg. He coached men’s basketball at California Western, once located on the Point Loma campus, for nearly 20 years, starting in 1958, and developed the SOS pressure defense there.
Years later, Kloppenburg-Pruitt played two seasons at Point Loma during its transition to NCAA Division II under Bill Westphal, whose brother, Paul, coached alongside Bob in the NBA with the Seattle SuperSonics.
