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Vol. 64 No. 45 | Thursday, November 7, 2024
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Serving San Diego County’s African & African American Communities 64 Years
In Remembrance of VETERANS DAY
A Look At Early Vote Returns & What We Projected
INSIDE THIS WEEK'S ISSUE:
By Dr. John E. Warren PUBLISHER, THE SAN DIEGO VOICE & VIEWPOINT
While the election returns for Vice President Harris and Former President Donald Trump remain too close to call, it looks like the Republicans have regained control of the Senate and the House remains unknown. However, on the Down Ballot, results remain much like we called them in our endorsements. Congressman Adam Sheff is holding his lead; Dr. Alikla Weber goes to the State Senate while Dr. Lashea Sharp Collins goes to the 79th Assembly District seat if her lead holds up; Mayor Todd Gloria retains his seat; Heather Ferbert becomes City Attorney for the City of San Diego; our choices for the County Board of Supervisors hold true with Nora Vargas keeping her seat, as does Joel Anderson; and Tara Lawson Remer beating off former Mayor Kevin Faulconer. San Diego City Council members retain their seats.
HBCU CARAVAN AT MESA COLLEGE SEE PAGE 8
On a national scale, there is much heart-felt disappointment over what is shaping up as a Donald Trump win in spite of 34 criminal convictions and a host of legal actions. Some of these numbers could change in the days ahead but history suggests they will hold.
Will Taxpayers Be Funding Yet
SDHS WALL OF HONOR
Another In-Custody Jail Death?
SEE PAGE 7
Debt and Rent are Top Issues
WORLD COMMUNITY DAY AT CHURCH WOMEN UNITED
for Young Californians By Edward Henderson CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA Yusef Miller, representing the San Diego branch of NAACP, and North County Racial Justice Coalition, regarding the lawsuit filed against the County of San Diego, City of Chula Vista, and NaphCare Inc. PHOTO: Macy Meinhardt/Voice & Viewpoint Staff
By Macy Meinhardt VOICE & VIEWPOINT STAFF WRITER Keith Bach, 63, was found unresponsive on the floor of his holding cell at the San Diego County Central Jail last September. His insulin pump was found beeping next to his lifeless body when officers discovered him.
Deputies at the downtown jail had denied Bach his proper insulin dosage for 24-hours, despite knowledge of his type-one diabetic condition. At 4 a.m. on Sept. 28, 2023, Bach, a 20 year military veteran, died of diabetic ketoacidosis. Since Bach was dependent on others for his care, the manner of death was ruled as a homicide by the medical examiner’s office. See DEATH page 2
As America elects a new President this week — and a slate of new elected officials at the local and state level — the voices of young voters in California are resounding as political campaigns and policy makers order their priorities and shape their messages to include their perspectives and respond to their concerns.
SEE PAGE 10
PHOTO: Courtesy of CBM
But what are those issues on the minds of the next generation of California’s electorate in 2024? Power California, an organization that informs and empowers young voters, and Latino Decisions, a political research company, set out to answer this question in their Rising Electorate Survey, whose findings were released earlier this fall.
The survey polled 1,754 young Californians ages 18-30 on the issues they cared about the most. While many of the findings showed a growing stress and uncertainty surrounding rent control, housing, better wages and special interest groups being too involved in government, nearly half of the young Californians surveyed believed things will get better in the future. See DEBT AND RENT page 2
Newsom Pays Visit To San Diego Wastewater Treatment Facilities
How Structural Racism Amid ongoing sewage crisis Accelerates Aging in Black Americans
VOICE & VIEWPOINT NEWSWIRE Gov. Gavin Newsom visited San Diego wastewater treatment facilities last week to assess rehabilitation efforts and the ongoing sewage crisis, a long-standing environmental and public health issue.
Researchers Launch $3.7 Million Study
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA NEWSWIRE SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT A group of researchers from Rutgers University and Michigan State University have launched a major study to examine the longterm effects of structural racism on cognitive aging, physical decline, and frailty—particularly in Black Americans. A five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging, a
PHOTO: NNPA
division of the National Institutes of Health, will support the study under the direction of Danielle L. Beatty Moody, an associate professor at Rutgers University, and Richard C. Sadler, an associate professor at Michigan State. See RACISM page 2
The Tijuana River has fueled a decadeslong pollution crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border, impacting public health, closing beaches, and severely degrading the Tijuana River Estuary and coastal waters from Tijuana to Coronado. Since October 2023, a staggering 31 billion gallons of raw sewage, polluted stormwater and trash have flowed down the Tijuana River Valley and into the Pacific Ocean, according to local environmental organization San Diego Coastkeeper.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, along with Baja California Gov. Marina del Pilar Ãvila, visited the construction site of the San Antonio de los Buenos wastewater treatment plant in Tijuana on Oct. 28. PHOTO: Office of Gov. Gavin Newsom
In his first visit to the treatment plants, Gov. Gavin Newsom joined San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Nora Vargas on Monday Oct. 28 for a briefing and a status update on the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant (SBIWTP). See NEWSOM page 2
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