Daily Business Report: November 12, 2026
Water Abundance Means Thinking Big Again
By Edward Ring | California Globe
“The problem we faced in the 1970s was that we were building too much and too heedlessly. The problem we face in the 2020s is that we are building too little and we are too often paralyzed by process.”
This quote from the book “Abundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson perfectly encapsulates what has happened in California. We have stopped thinking big.
An example of how much everything has changed is how California has managed water projects over time. In less than sixty years, from 1910 through 1970, we built the most impressive system of interbasin transfers in the world. Along with reservoirs that can cumulatively store over 40 million acre feet, we built the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, Colorado River Aqueduct, Delta Mendota Canal, Friant-Kern Canal, and California Aqueduct. Altogether these conveyances are over 1,500 miles in length and every year they move millions of acre feet from where water is found to where water is needed.
La Jolla’s Most ‘Infamous’ House Party Fails the Test of Time
by Bella Ross | Voice of San Diego
Nothing could prepare me for the dread I would feel walking into a La Jolla realtor’s backyard a few weekends ago.
Thirty-some folding chairs faced a makeshift stage, where a local band slammed through rock covers to a sparse crowd. In the corner, an unplugged slow cooker of pulled pork sat lukewarm on an otherwise-empty table.
We all wore white, as directed by Dan Courtney, host of the annual La Jolla Summer White Party.
How veterans came together to honor their own at Mount Soledad
by Debbie L. Sklar | Special for Times of San Diego
Although some plaques are simpler in their wording, the one located at the bottom of Mount Soledad is a tribute to an important local landmark in La Jolla.
The plaque reads:
Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial Cross
Dedicated in 1954 in honour of all branches of the Armed Services of U.S.A. servicemen and women.
This plaque dedicated November 11, 1989
Mt. Soledad Memorial Association
City Beautiful San Diego
