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VOL. 32, N0. 31
AUG. 3, 2018
Carlsbad, Airbnb agree to short-term rentals tax contract
SAN Groups decry MARCOS military base -NEWS detention sites
By Steve Puterski
By Claudia Piepenburg
Starting Aug. 1, Airbnb began collecting transient occupancy tax, or TOT, in Carlsbad. After roughly six weeks of discussions, the city and popular temporary lodging website came to the agreement for shortterm vacation rentals in the city. Cupertino, Redwood City, San Luis Obispo, Sunnyvale and San Bernardino and El Dorado counties all join Carlsbad as the newest cities to allow Airbnb to collect and remit TOT to those entities. Carlsbad is just the second city in San Diego County to have a formal agreement with Airbnb. The city of San Diego entered into a contract in 2015, according to the company. According to Cheryl Gerhardt, finance manager with the city of Carlsbad, the contract is in perpetuity until either the city or Airbnb cancels. Matt Middlebrook, Airbnb’s public policy lead in California, said the agreements will eliminate the need for homeowners to navigate a complex process. Additionally, Airbnb will assume the legal responsibilities of collecting and remitting, he said. “In 2015, we made it loud and clear that we wanted to work cities, states, counties and whoever collected the hotel tax … and work on behalf of our hosts,” Middlebrook said. “This is one more way we were able to engage with the communities and TURN TO AIRBNB ON A8
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Waves from 3 to 4 feet consistently rolled in on Friday, July 27, as girls and women demonstrated their ath letic ag ilit y in the water
CAMP PENDLETON — If not for the article in the June 22 issue of Time, picked up later that THE same day by the San Diego Union-Tribune,VISTA few people in San Diego would have NEWS known that the U. S. Navy was drawing up plans to build a “temporary and austere” tent city on two military bases in California: one at the former Naval Weapons Station Concord, near San Francisco and the other at Camp Pendleton. “Someone from the defense department leaked RANCHO the information to the magazine,” said Joy Frew, SFNEWS a member of the Fallbrook Democratic Club, one of the organizations protesting the Pendleton tent city. “That’s where we first heard about it.” According to the article both facilities would house up to 47,000 migrants for up to one year. The leaked memo, written by Phyllis Bayer, assistant secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment, said that a migrant detention camp built to house 25,000 people would cost $233 million and construction would take two months. Upon learning the news, The Fallbrook Human Rights Committee/ Comite de Derechos Humanos de Fallbrook, organized a coalition of groups that held weekly protests against the tent city. They also engaged in a concerted effort to get more information from the defense department. “It’s been so frustrating to get any information
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CARISSA MOORE OF HAWAII competes in the Paul Mitchell Supergirl Surf Pro on Sunday, July 29, in Oceanside. Moore, 25, a three-time World Surf League champion, edged out San Clemente teen phenom Caroline Marks, 16, to earn her first-ever win at the three-day event, the largest all-female surf competition in the world. Photo by Shana Thompson
Moore is better Supergirl Pro powered by thrills, upsets and inspiration
By Carey Blakely
OCEANSIDE — After three days of professional surfing that witnessed many upsets and triumphs, three-time World Surf League champion Carissa Moore claimed the Supergirl Pro cape
on Sunday, July 29, with a narrow victory over teenage phenom Caroline Marks. In addition to hosting the largest all-female surf competition in the world, the 12th annual Paul Mitchell Neon Supergirl
Pro event featured professional female skateboarders, gamers and more. The event provided a way to showcase —and empower — girls and women in the sports in which they’ve often gone underrepresented.
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