Community leaders at the announcement of the opening of the El Cajon Small Business Incubator. Photo credit: Courtesy, Chaldean Community Council The new El Cajon Small Business Incubator will be launched by the Chaldean Community Council thanks to a $500,000 grant from San Diego County. The intent of the initiative is to support local entrepreneurship, spur economic growth and create job opportunities in El Cajon with a focus on low-income and underserved refugee communities. The city of El Cajon is providing the lease for the incubator space for $1 per year. The county funding comes via ..read more

San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office. Photo via @SanDiegoCounty Twitter Authorities Friday publicly identified an Alabama man who was killed this week in a fiery motorcycle crash in eastern San Diego County. Jeremy Ponton, 34, was riding a 2005 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R to the south on Winter Gardens Boulevard in Lakeside at high speed when a 2013 Ford F- 150 backed out of a driveway north of Lemon Crest Drive into his path shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office and California Highway Patrol. The resulting collision set the two-wheeler and t ..read more

A Caltrans crew repairing a highway. Courtesy Caltrans Caltrans crews will close all lanes of westbound state Route 54 at Reo Drive/Plaza Bonita Center Way as well as the westbound SR- 54 connector ramps to northbound and southbound Interstate 805 at 9 Friday evening. The section of highway will remain closed until 5 a.m. Monday for storm related emergency repairs to drainage systems under the roadway and a sinkhole on the shoulder, a Caltrans statement reads. The state transportation agency is encouraging motorists to avoid the area and use alternate routes unless necessary. All westbound SR ..read more

A Caltrans crew repairing a highway. Courtesy Caltrans Caltrans crews will close all lanes of westbound state Route 54 at Reo Drive/Plaza Bonita Center Way as well as the westbound SR- 54 connector ramps to northbound and southbound Interstate 805 at 9 Friday evening. The section of highway will remain closed until 5 a.m. Monday for storm related emergency repairs to drainage systems under the roadway and a sinkhole on the shoulder, a Caltrans statement reads. The state transportation agency is encouraging motorists to avoid the area and use alternate routes unless necessary. All westbound SR ..read more

Classic cars on display at the La Jolla Concours d’Elegance. Courtesy photo The 18th Annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance returns to San Diego Friday, kicking off with a VIP dinner party in La Jolla at Ellen Browning Scripps Park at 6 p.m. The annual event “celebrates the glamour and luxury of the Roaring ’20s and Glamorous ’30s with a schedule of must-attend events for automobile aficionados and casual enthusiasts alike,” a statement from the event organizers reads. For the VIP dinner, themed “Expedition d’Elegance: The Road to Opulent Adventure,” attendees can listen to classic jazz, enjoy pe ..read more

Photo by Alexander Nguyen  A 36-year-old motorist was seriously injured in a crash in Rancho Penasquitos, the San Diego Police Department said Friday. At 11:26 p.m. Thursday, a man was driving a 2024 Audi A4 luxury compact executive car southbound on 14000 Black Mountain Road when he failed to maintain the curve in the road, SDPD Officer David O’Brien said. The vehicle collided with the guardrail along the west curb, the officer said. The driver over-corrected to the left, the Audi jumped the raised center median, and collided with a large tree. The driver was taken by ambulance to a hos ..read more

Construction workers on a job site. Photo via Pixabay The unemployment rate in San Diego County decreased to 4.4% in March, up from a revised 4.8% in February and above the year-ago estimate of 3.5%, according to figures released Friday by the state Employment Development Department. Last month’s rate compares with an unadjusted unemployment rate of 5.3% for California and 3.9% for the nation during the same period. Between February 2024 and March 2024, total nonfarm employment in San Diego County increased by 4,400 for a total of 1,557,200 jobs. Government payrolls increased by 2,000 over the ..read more

SDG&E’s Sunrise Powerlink brings power through the desert to San Diego. Photo courtesy SDG&E San Diegans have a power problem, sweating under America’s highest utility costs while the private investors behind San Diego Gas & Electric rake in over $1 billion in annual profits. But now voters can choose a real solution via a ballot initiative proposed by Power San Diego. Let’s fire the SDG&E monopoly this November. That’s what our grassroots nonprofit group proposes with this ballot initiative. Let’s follow the proven model to cut utility costs from Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin ..read more

Image by StockSnap from Pixabay Love vinyl? Record Store Day will be celebrated Saturday at a number of San Diego County stores and there will be many limited releases for devotees. The dozens of special releases include current best-selling artists like Olivia Rodrigo and artists of yesteryear (you pick the era), such as Cannonball Adderley, the Beatles, David Bowie, U2, De La Soul and Pearl Jam and Wiz Khalifa. Local participants include more than a dozen stores in San Diego and six in North and East County. Here’s a selection: M-Theory Music, Mission Hills Flimzys Records, Bankers Hill Nor ..read more

Robert Brill. Courtesy photo When the curtain rises Saturday night on a new Alicia Keys-inspired musical on Broadway, there will be a San Diegan in the audience with a huge personal interest in the play. That San Diegan is Robert Brill, a professor in the UC San Diego’s Department of Theater and Dance who designed the stage settings for the play, “Hell’s Kitchen.” It’s not the first Broadway play that Brill has worked on. But with the involvement of the 16-time Grammy award winner, it could be one of his most-talked about projects. “I think it’s going to be a spectacular opening, o​ne that’s b ..read more