By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report | October 15, 2026 SAN DIEGO. Fentanyl deaths in San Diego County fell from 802 in 2022 to 340 in 2025, […]
San Diego Raised Transit Fares. The Deficit Behind Them Is Many Times Bigger.
MTS projects a gap of up to $141 million by fiscal 2030, and a draft scenario would eliminate a third of its bus routes By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | […]
San Diego Police Want AI to Write Their Reports. The Evidence Isn’t In Yet.
By Jose E. Navarro | The Navarro Report | October 13, 2026 The San Diego Police Department is shopping for artificial intelligence to help officers write reports. It says it […]
San Diego County Paid $30 Million for Two Jail Deaths. Who Answers for the Next One?
Settlements land on taxpayers, but no public ledger ties each payout to a fix By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report | October 12, 2026 SAN DIEGO. San […]
Overtime and Payroll Are Squeezing San Diego’s Discretionary Budget
Audits show police and fire overruns in nearly every year, and the county’s payroll base keeps growing By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report SAN DIEGO. The region’s […]
A Permanent Half-Cent With No Scorecard: A Controller’s Reading of Measure B
By Jose Navarro, MBA Mail ballots go out in San Diego County this week, and Measure B asks voters to approve a half-cent sales tax that the San Diego Foundation […]
El desempleo bajó en California, pero también bajó el número de personas con trabajo
Por Jose Navarro, MBA | Contralor financiero y analista de políticas públicas | San Diego, California 29 de septiembre de 2026 El 5,1 por ciento. Esa es la tasa de […]
Mil millones de dólares después, la fila en San Ysidro sigue sin rendir cuentas
Por Jose Navarro, MBA | Contralor financiero y analista de políticas públicas | San Diego, California 29 de septiembre de 2026 Cada día, unas 60.000 personas cruzan la frontera entre […]
Hasta $500 millones al año: lo que la crisis del río Tijuana le cuesta a San Diego y lo que el condado gasta para detenerla
Por Jose E. Navarro El condado de San Diego ya tiene una cifra de lo que la crisis de aguas negras del río Tijuana le cuesta a la región: entre […]
Up to $500 Million a Year: What the Tijuana River Crisis Costs San Diego, and What the County Is Spending to Stop It
By Jose E. Navarro San Diego County finally has a number for what the Tijuana River sewage crisis costs the region: between $125 million and $500 million in lost economic […]