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Massive cranes mounted on a Dole Food Co. cargo ship hoisted containers at the Port of San Diego on Thursday, powered not by the ocean-going vessel’s hulking diesel engines but electricity.
Before the port’s anchor-tenant started plugging its freighters into “shore power” at the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal in Barrio Logan, pollution was noticeably worse, said Todd Post, lead mechanic at the terminal.
“My truck would be parked here with soot all over it,” said Post, a stevedore with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 29, who was overseeing operations Thursday.
Industrial businesses at the port have repeatedly blamed heavy traffic on Interstate 5 and the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge for the pollution that’s long plagued nearby communities.
Column: Timing will help San Diego move on from pension nightmare
San Diego Union-Tribune (CA)
San Diego finally may get a bit of a break in a decade-old pension scandal that continues to put pressure on city finances.
The rare good news may be more the product of timing than anything anyone did.
A settlement is in the offing that will put to rest the ill-fated 2012 Proposition B pension overhaul, and it might not take much of a financial bite out of the city coffers, if any. Not long ago, cost estimates of making whole thousands of workers who were denied pensions ranged from
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pokane Mayor Nadine Woodward s first city administrator, hired away from the tiny Central Washington town of Ephrata, resigned after less than a year.
But Woodward says the scale of experience of her new city administrator, Johnnie Perkins, is on an entirely different level. Perkins has been a school board candidate, a trash company lobbyist and, just last year, a deputy chief operating officer for the city of San Diego.
In a city of 1.5 million nearly seven times Spokane s population and 188 times Ephrata s Perkins oversaw infrastructure, public works and utilities.
Woodward says that Perkins references were absolutely incredible across the board, with two decades worth of colleagues from the public and private sectors raving about his record of collaboration and problem-solving.