Hola! I’m Andrea Lopez-Villafaña, one of many managing editors at Voice of San Diego. I’m taking up What We Realized This Week, however as you possibly can inform from the headline, with a brand new look and title: Cup of Chisme.
In regards to the title: Chisme immediately interprets to gossip in English. However that’s not what this article goes to be about. You possibly can nonetheless count on nicely reported information right here. To me, the phrase “chisme” means sharing info, tales and information with household and associates.
In my residence, Sundays had been the in the future of the week I’d sit down with my aunt and mother over cafecito and pan dulce to dish out chisme and vital information. My aunt was busy many of the week taking good care of children and my mother labored as a waitress, so she had lengthy hours. Sunday evenings had been a time for all of us to catch up. We’d discuss information, tales we discovered fascinating and extra.
I hope to carry that custom to your inbox.
What to anticipate: Each Sunday, I’ll spotlight tales you could learn to begin your week. I’ll share behind-the-scenes tales about our newsroom and reporters and convey you participating views from individuals in our neighborhoods on among the most urgent points in San Diego.
This text will really feel somewhat completely different than WWLTW, however I hope you’ll stick round and assist me construct a robust group on this house. Wish to ask me a query? Do you’ve got an thought or suggestions for this article? E-mail me: [email protected]
Now, let’s leap right into a story that sparked a whole lot of chisme final week.
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Right here at Voice we frequently discuss conceptual scoops: info that’s on the market on the planet, not making a whole lot of noise by itself, however value highlighting in a narrative. That may be an off-hand remark from a politician or a statistic in a metropolis report.
That’s precisely what our surroundings reporter had final week.
Individuals had been shedding their minds on the point out of a hypothetical nationwide ban on gas-powered stoves. It sparked a wave of backlash and media protection. But it surely seems that the town of San Diego already has plans to try this, MacKenzie Elmer reported.
San Diego has already dedicated to eliminating nearly all pure fuel use from buildings by 2035 by means of its Local weather Motion Plan. This consists of retrofitting present buildings to run on electrical energy.
Elmer writes that “chopping fossil fuels of properties means changing fuel stoves with electric-powered induction stovetops and swapping out gas-powered water heaters for electrical warmth pumps to do each heating and cooling.”
The story took off: As soon as our story was printed, and different information retailers picked it up, some individuals had been indignant the town would plan to take their stoves and others mirrored on how heating tortillas would by no means be the identical. (I imply, burning your fingers over the flame is a part of the complete expertise.)
Right here’s the deal: As we defined on the VOSD Podcast, this story is a basic instance of when metropolis coverage clashes with actuality. The proposal to switch fuel stoves has been within the metropolis’s Local weather Motion Plan for some time, so it’s not new. And the plan doesn’t embrace particular polices for the way to truly try this.
Most important takeaway: It’s not taking place tomorrow as a result of there’s rather a lot the town should get performed first earlier than implementing any kind of mandate or plan to do away with fuel stoves from properties. They might additionally select to again out and never do it in any respect.
Town could possibly be having conversations quickly about implementing a plan for its Local weather Motion Plan. However will metropolis leaders comply with by means of? We’ll hold you up to date.
Chisme to Begin Your Week
- Lecturers at San Diego Unified usually are not stoked in regards to the district’s rollout of a brand new grade for 4-year-olds. The lecturers union lately invited high workers from the district to listen to the issues that lecturers have about this system. Our schooling reporter spoke to lecturers about their issues with staffing, coaching and extra.
- The Border Report is again. Voice contributor Sandra Dribble was off for a pair months, however she’s going to return together with her first publication on Monday. The Border Report is a bi-weekly updates on the U.S.-Mexico border and surrounding area. In case you aren’t subscribed but, you need to test it out. It’s good. (Join right here)
- Town of San Diego lately rolled out inexperienced bins for meals waste to neighborhoods, together with my very own. These bins are a results of a state legislation that requires cities to separate meals waste from common rubbish and recycling. As Elmer has defined to me earlier than, meals farts, or the fuel that’s generated by micro organism that decomposes meals waste, shouldn’t be good for the surroundings. I began separating my meals waste final week. Right here’s a submit about what to anticipate and customary questions.
- You noticed it right here first: Tomorrow we launch the fourth story in our Covid Yr Two: After the Vaccine investigation. The crew has some findings about how politics performed a task in who was extra more likely to die. Atone for the opposite tales on this sequence right here.
See you subsequent week. – Andrea, an expert chismosa
