Daily Business Report: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Newsom’s Prop. 50 would tie coastal cities to desert towns under San Diego maps
By Nadia Lathan | CalMatters
Fredrich Bahrke moved to Lakeside 25 years ago, lured by the ranch-style homes that dot its open landscape and the slower pace of life in the town of 63,000.
“I’ve always been an out-in-the-country kind of boy. The rural life is more comfortable for me,” Bahrke said.
This portion of San Diego County, known as East County, is divided by its rural and urban areas in U.S. House maps. Lakeside sits in contrast to the county’s eastern, urban core on the outskirts of Democratic-leaning cities El Cajon and La Mesa.
By Patrick Wagner, MD, | California Globe
Obamacare is now in its 15th year since its passage in 2010. Nancy Pelosi famously said “We have to pass it to find out what’s in it” as she handed it off to President Barack Hussein Obama for his signature. And this law is President Obama’s legacy, without a doubt.
Another name for Obamacare is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA. So, Obama’s hope and change promise to the American electorate, is that universal healthcare would finally protect ALL American patients and would finally be affordable.
This law has been percolating for 15 years, which is plenty of time to recognize what its implementation back in 2010 has achieved. Thus, my question, is Obamacare safe? And the other obvious question, “Is Obamacare Affordable”.
Gavin Newsom embraced reparations at first. Now he’s slow rolling them
By Dan Walters | CalMatters
George Floyd, a Black man who had been detained by Minneapolis police after a store clerk alleged he had used a counterfeit $20 bill, died as Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes, ignoring Floyd’s complaints that he could not breathe.
A video of Floyd’s May 25, 2020 death triggered massive protests throughout the nation and across the globe, energizing the Black Lives Matter movement that had been founded in 2013.
Four months after Floyd’s death, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills to address, he said, “the scourge of racial injustice rooted in the legacy of slavery and systemic racism,” including one authorizing a nine-member task force to study reparations for Black Californians.
