By Jose Navarro, MBA | Financial Controller & Public Policy Analyst | San Diego, CA September 21, 2026 SAN DIEGO — Property tax bills start landing in San Diego County […]
Where the Money Went: Mismanagement, and One Prosecuted Pocket of Corruption
By Jose Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report | San Diego Affairs San Diego — Ask city officials where the money went and you’ll mostly hear the word “structural”: a […]
The Bubble Curtain That Washed Away: What San Diego’s New Billion-Dollar Sewage Fix Risks Repeating
By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | San Diego County | September 18, 2026 SAN DIEGO — On September 1, county supervisors voted to build a locally funded treatment system for […]
The Gaylord’s $3 Million Gap: Who Actually Answers for the Bayfront’s Bond Bet
By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | San Diego | September 16, 2026 More than a year after the Gaylord Pacific Resort and Convention Center opened on the shoreline of South […]
The $10 Million Question San Diego’s Childcare System Never Asked: Were the Kids Actually There?
Twelve ghost-daycare operators allegedly collected millions for children who barely showed up. The fraud is the headline. The oversight gap that let it run for years is the story. By […]
The Fight to Keep La Jolla Cove Open
Residents and swimmers say the Cove doesn’t need to close — it needs the wildlife plan the city already approved to actually be enforced. By Jose E. Navarro | San […]
The $3.2 Billion Number San Diego Doesn’t Control, and Can’t Stop Paying
By Jose E. Navarro | The Navarro Report | San Diego Affairs | Follow the Money Mayor Todd Gloria framed this year’s city budget as a victory: a $118 million […]
San Diego Is Selling Its Water Surplus. It Won’t Fix the San Joaquin Valley’s Coming Shortfall.
By Jose E. Navarro | The Navarro Report | California Affairs California’s water story this year is really two stories, and they are almost mirror images of each other. In […]
A Sidewalk Gap Is Now the Legal Battleground for San Diego’s Housing Mandate
By Jose Navarro, MBA | San Diego | The Navarro Report San Diego’s regional planning agency is being sued over how it draws a line on a map — and […]
The Bill Comes Due: Pure Water’s $130 Million Overrun Is Already on Your Water Bill
Six months ago, this outlet asked whether San Diego was about to get a multi-billion-dollar water bill nobody was talking about honestly. The number has since arrived, itemized, on the […]