Report: Needs of Women Veterans
The California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) yesterday released its report California’s Women Veterans: Responses to the 2011 Survey. The report covers areas of need experienced by women upon separation from the armed services, an issue particularly pertinent to areas …
Drone Makers Want to Sell to Foreigners
United States defense contractors including San Diego’s General Atomics are lobbying for reduced government restrictions that are stopping them from selling drone technology to other countries, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. “Export restrictions are hurting this industry in America …
Briefs Filed in Suit Against SANDAG Transit Plan
Opening briefs have been filed in a November 2011 lawsuit launched by environmental groups Cleveland National Forest Foundation, the Sierra Club, and the Center for Biological Diversity against the San Diego Association of Governments over their 2050 Regional Transit Plan. …
State May Launch San Onofre Probe
“Nuclear safety in action,” is how San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station operator Southern California Edison spokesperson Jennifer Manfre describes the ongoing emergency shutdown at the facility in the North County Times. After four months, experts have determined that a faulty …
Energy Commission Plans for Clean(er) Energy Future
The California Energy Commission convenes a meeting this morning in Los Angeles regarding the 2012 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update. The report focuses on the state’s long range clean energy goals and includes questions concerning the future of the San …
SDSU Students, Retired Professor Tour State's Prison System
Retired San Diego State University criminal justice professor Paul Sutton, who the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says “has seen the inside of more prisons than many CDCR employees who have spent their entire careers with the department,” recently …
Design Flaws, Not Worker Error, to Blame for San Onofre Damages
Federal regulators are pointing to design flaws over defective materials or improper installation as the primary cause of premature tube wear that caused San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to enter emergency shutdown over safety concerns. “It looks primarily [like] we …