New Revenue Streams to Save San Diegans from Budget Cuts
by Katheryn Rhodes and Mandy Havlik
In a Times of San Diego interview Mayor Todd Gloria discussed upcoming Budget cuts and he stated: “I am willing to do tough things. And I am willing to tell the public the truth. And they are probably not used to that.”
City of San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria claimed that the City Council directed him to exhaust every revenue option before entertaining any budget cuts. In November 2024, Measure E for a new +1% Sales Tax to the General Fund barely failed 50.31% to 49.69%. And the only 06/02/2026 ballot measure for new revenue is the “Empty Homes Tax.”
However, new revenue streams have not been exhausted. Since 2014 Katheryn Rhodes has put forward several Ballot proposals to Reclassify Online Travel Companies (OTC) as Hotel Operators in the plain language of the TOT Ordinance in order to get the full Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) rate to no avail.
In 1965, before Online Travel Companies (OTC) existed, was the first and only time the citizens of San Diego voted to approve the City’s Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) Ordinance, including Definitions.

by Ernie McCray
No Kings protests are being organized for Saturday, March 28. Over 3,000 events are being planned across the country — 19 just here in

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There is a 12-unit ADU project in Roseville on Canon Street that nearly slipped our collective mind. But our friends at Peninsula News are now reminding us – with the following “tour.”
By Dave Garrick /
Conflicting claims are flying around Point Loma these days regarding the property at 1004 Rosecrans — where a proposed four-story, 56-unit mixed-use project right next to the elementary school was on deck to be constructed. But community opposition quickly developed led by a grassroots group called Protect Point Loma — and it was recently announced that the owner / developer wanted to sell the site instead.
Join them as the Ocean Beach Historical Society celebrates Daylight Saving Time at the Wisteria Patio Cottage, under the century-old Wisteria vines, on Thursday, March 19, 2026, 4:30 – 7:00 PM at 4761 Niagara Ave., in O.B.
By Donna Frye
On Thursday morning, March 19, 2026 the City of San Diego Planning Commission is holding a workshop on the Mid-City Communities Plan Update (MCCPU), which includes the four communities of Normal Heights, Kensington-Talmadge, Eastern Area, and City Heights.
By David Moty 




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