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Articles from the August 8, 2018 edition


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  • Initiative to expand convention center fails random signature verification

    City News Service|Updated Aug 8, 2018

    SAN DIEGO - Backers of an initiative that would have raised San Diego's hotel tax to fund a long-awaited expansion to the city's bayfront convention center failed to collect enough valid signatures to earn a spot on the November ballot, the city clerk's office announced today. A random sampling of the campaign's more than 114,000 signatures by the county Registrar of Voters fell short of the threshold of verified signatures needed to place the issue on the ballot. A signature-by-signature count will start immediately, but...

  • Rhino calf and mother enjoy field exhibit for the first time

    City News Service|Updated Aug 8, 2018

    SAN DIEGO - A nearly 7-week-old greater one-horned rhino calf and her mother barreled into their Asian Savanna field exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park for the first time today. The female calf, Carole, and her mother, Asha, had been in a protected area called a boma since the calf's birth June 22. The animals' one-on-one time allowed them to properly bond before interacting with other animals in their new 40-acre habitat, according to the zoo. The rhinos exited the boma...