East County news

March 5, 2025 (San Diego’s East County) -- East County Roundup highlights top stories of interest to East County and San Diego's inland regions, published in other media.  This week's round-up stories include:

LOCAL

• More Industrial Chemicals Found in Sweetwater Reservoir (Voice of San Diego
• Keeping Lakeside egg ranch flu-free takes constant vigilance. Would a vaccine help?  (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• ‘Daylighting' law to be enforced in San Diego starting Saturday (NBC San Diego)
• La Mesa’s ‘Parking T’ program aims to end street parking headaches (CBS)
• Trump cuts to NOAA already felt in San Diego (KPBS)
• Could NOAA layoffs affect San Diego? (Fox 5)
• Report finds illnesses among Navy SEALs training in polluted water in San Diego (NBC San Diego)
• Santee School District one of few performing above pre-pandemic levels in math and reading (KPBS)
•  Air Pollution Control District to begin distributing air purifiers to South Bay residents (KPBS)
• San Diego's congressional Democrats send letter opposing science funding cuts (KPBS)
• Family shares history of mental illness in El Cajon man arrested for mother's death (10 News)
• Sobering times for some San Diego breweries as closures rise (NBC 7)

STATE

•  Bill aims to prohibit 'surveillance pricing' based on customers’ online behavior (KPBS)
• ‘It was just a regular morning’: Californians picked up in recent ICE raids include kids, volunteers (KPBS)
• LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month (AP)
• Big homeowner rate hike from State Farm shot down by California regulator
• Trump funding freeze includes payments to keep the Colorado River flowing (NPR)
• Power lines sparked new fires in LA after the Eaton Fire began, radio traffic shows (NPR)
• California homeowners will have to fund half of high-risk insurer's $1 billion ‘bailout’ (Cal Matters)

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