local politics

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency, led by former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin, is proposing steep reductions to state grants next year, calling for a 90% cut to funds that go toward a range of local clean water and…

A letter sent last week to San Diego leaders asserts that the environmental analysis for the Midway Rising project is legally flawed, and will, if approved, not only lead to additional gridlock in the area but force taxpayers to bear the…

Delayed by more than a year, downtown San Diego’s long-awaited East Village Green park, which has been under construction since the summer of 2022, will now cost $83.9 million to complete and is slated to open in August. San Diego’s…

Real estate experts predict most New York City residents will stay put if Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed property-tax increase to decrease a budget deficit goes through.And why not move to Long Island? Because property taxes here are so…

Nearly two years after submitting an initial application to build a mixed-use tower in Pacific Beach, the developer behind the project, sometimes referred to as Project Vela, has made little progress in convincing the city of San Diego…

San Diego stands to benefit substantially should it vacate City Hall and make its central downtown real estate available for redevelopment, according to a new report financed by a philanthropic organization with a vested interest in the…

The San Diego Community College District is seeking to raze San Diego’s Golden Hall and replace it with a five-story museum and educational building that centers around the district’s growing collection of African art. The redevelopment…

Shuttered Costa Verde Center slated to be razed early next year San Diego Union-Tribune Read More

Seven years after buying the once iconic Horton Plaza mall in the heart of downtown, developer Stockdale Capital Partners has lost control of the property that it refashioned into a mixed-use office campus called the Campus at Horton. On…