San Diego Symphony General Media Coverage: November & December

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SDSU’S SENATE VOTES TO DROP MASCOT Nonbinding advisory resolution to school leader passes 52-14

SENATE GOP TO UNVEIL TAX BILL Measure eliminates deductions for state and local taxes

BY JIM TANKERSLEY & ALAN RAPPEPORT WASHINGTON

Senate Republicans, under pressure to pass a sweeping tax rewrite before year’s end, are expected to unveil legislation today that would eliminate the ability of

people to deduct state and local taxes but would stop short of fully repealing the estate tax, according to lobbyists and other people familiar with the bill.

The Senate plan is taking shape as Republicans digest the drubbing they suffered Tuesday night in affluent suburbs across the country, many of them represented by Republicans in the House.

Those areas are stocked with well-off voters who would be disproportionately hit by the

elimination of state and local tax deductions. But in the Senate, those high-tax areas are often represented by Democrats, which puts less pressure on Republican leaders to keep the state and local deduction, in any form, in their version of the bill.

Each of the bills reflects delicate political and fiscal calculations as Republican leaders seek to deliver on President Donald Trump’s campaign promises to cut taxes on the middle class and

on businesses — but also to find the money to pay for them. Eliminating the state and local tax deduction would increase tax receipts and therefore lessen the overall cost of the legislation, which by congressional budget rules cannot exceed $1.5 trillion over the next decade if it is to pass without Democratic support.

House Republican leaders, meanwhile, scrambled Wednesday to patch a $74 billion hole they had created in

their tax plan, leaving them with a painful choice between scalingbackthebill’sbenefits for individuals or reducing their proposed tax cuts for businesses.

Rep. Kevin Brady, RTexas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said Wednesday eveningthathewouldrelease a new set of revisions to the bill today. He said the panel would “continue to weigh the scores” from nonSEE TAXES • A6

BY GARY WARTH The move to do away with San Diego State University’s Aztec mascot has resurfaced, taking opponents and even some supporters by surprise.

The latest gyration in the years-long dispute occurred Tuesday night when the University Senate overwhelmingly voted to retire the Aztec Warrior and related symbols, 52-14.

Just seven months ago, the Associated Students council agreed to keep the mascot and logo by a narrow vote of 14-12.

The Senate resolution, which is nonbinding and is an advisory to the university president, called for doing away with the human representation of an Aztec and the use of spears or other “weapons that connote barbaric representations of the Aztec culture.”

The San Diego State’s “SD” logo incorporates a spear.

The Senate also called for creating a task force to investigate and make recommendations about the appropriateness of the continued usage of the Aztec moniker.

The University Senate is composed of professors, lecturers, a coach, staff members, students, the provost, a dean, administrators and others.

The vote, and the margin, took people by surprise on both sides of the issue, including a lecturer who submitted the original resolution.

“I was so blown away at SEE SDSU • A7

Outreach to veterans

Escondido resident and World War II veteran Gil Nadeau, 91, walks along the Line of Gratitude as Coronado Middle School students and staff greet veterans and active-duty service members during Wednesday’s annual Take a Veteran to School Day.

SAN DIEGO SUMMIT CONFRONTS STATE’S DEADLY OPIOID CRISIS

VAQUITA CAPTURE EFFORT HALTED

About 300 experts gather to discuss how Calif. can fix it

Female porpoise died amid efforts to save species

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BY SANDRA DIBBLE A daring and high-risk plan to prevent the extinction of Mexico’s vaquita porpoise by capturing the animals and holding them under human care has been suspended following the death of an adult female last weekend.

“We knew from the beginning that this was one of the risks,” said Lorenzo Rojas Bracho, the Mexican government scientist overseeing an international team working for the past few weeks in Mexico’s Gulf of California off the coast of San Felipe.

“But we were sure that if we did not do anything, they would disappear.”

Spearheaded by Mexico’s federal environmental secretariat, SEMARNAT, the month-long operation known as VaquitaCPR marked the first effort to capture these animals — with the aim of repopulating the species. It involved an international team of more than five dozen experts that included some of the world’s top marine mammal scientists, veterinarians and technicians.

VaquitaCPR proponents SEE VAQUITA • A11

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With the nation in the grip of a deadly opioid crisis, California seems to have been spared to some degree compared with many other states.

But the human toll it has taken on the most populous state is still staggering. California ranks No. 1 when it comes to the number of drug-overdose deaths — more than 4,600 victims in 2015, a trend primarily driven by opioids.

“We prescribe enough opioids every year to kill every Californian more than twice,” said Dr. Kelly Pfeifer at the California Health Care Foundation in Oakland.

This week, nearly 300 law enforcement officials, treatment providers, physicians and policymakers are gathering in San Diego to report on the state of the opioid crisis in California — and to figure out how to fix it.

The second California Opioid Policy Summit, held this year at a Mission Bay resort, comes two weeks after President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a national public

Father Joe’s Villages plans a 16-story, 444-unit apartment tower at 14th and Commercial streets. It would cater to people making $19,000 to $31,000 a year.

CRITICS SAY FATHER JOE’S PROJECT WOULD CREATE ‘GHETTO’ DOWNTOWN Residents: Low-income tower an unfair burden on East Village

BY JEANETTE STEELE Some downtown residents are saying “no more” to a massive low-income housing project proposed by Father Joe’s Villages — even accusing the city of creating a homeless housing “ghetto” on one side of downtown.

Father Joe’s wants to put a 16-story, 444-unit apartment tower at 14th and Commercial streets.

It would cater to people making $19,000 to $31,000 a year, aimed at providing permanent housing for homeless people and the working poor.

The site is near St. Vincent de Paul’s existing East Village campus, which provides shelter beds and other homeless services. The area also holds other homeless assistance projects, including Alpha Square, a 200-unit building that opened

in 2015 on 14th Street.

It’s all too much, according to some neighborhood groups.

The city is heading toward the “establishment of a (permanent supportive housing) ghetto on the south side of downtown,” warned Gary Smith of the San Diego Downtown Residents Group, at a public meeting last week.

An estimated 84 percent of the low-income permanent supportive housing units in downtown are in the East Village neighborhood, according to an accounting released by the East Village Residents Group.

These are generally low-income units with case managers to assist residents with issues such as illness or addiction.

The East Village is a large swath east of Seventh Avenue that enjoyed a renaisSEE TOWER • A9

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States such as West Virginia and New Hampshire have been especially devastated by drug overdose deaths, with 41 and 34 deaths per 100,000 residents in 2015, respectively, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While California is seventh-lowest in the nation for drug death rates in 2015 — 11 deaths per 100,000 residents — experts warn the

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Deaths in San Diego County blamed specifically on opioids in 2016. overdoses vary widely from county to county, with some regions hit harder than the national average.

A new challenge has arrived in the form of fentanyl, an incredibly powerful drug that can kill in extremely small doses, often sold on the streets as look-alike oxycodone pills. Much of the drug comes from precursor chemicals in China and is manufactured in labs in Mexico, then smuggled across the border and distributed across the country.

It is also bought on the dark SEE OPIOIDS • A8

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OUR EXPERTS RECOMMEND THE BEST EVENTS

THURSDAY 11.09 + FRIDAY 11.10

Travis Tritt — Solo Acoustic 8 p.m. today and Friday. Sycuan Casino – Live & Up Close, 5469 Casino Way, El Cajon. $59-$69.

(800) 279-2826 or sycuancasino.com Travis Tritt has made more than a dozen albums since his 1990 major-label debut, “Country Club,” and seven of them have sold more than a million copies each. But his biggest feat may be the role he played in the 1994 reunion of the Eagles. The band’s members had not been in the same room for years before Tritt got them to appear in his 1993 video for “Already Gone,” which he recorded for the all-star tribute album “Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles.” The rest is history.

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SATURDAY 11.11 + SUNDAY 11.12

SUNDAY 11.12 — SUNDAY 11.19 San Diego Bay Wine + Food Festival Sundayto Nov. 19. Throughout San Diego. Ticket prices vary. sandiegowineclassic.com Calling all food and wine lovers: Billed as Southern California’s largest food and wine festival, the San Diego Bay Wine + Food Festival kicks off Sunday and continues through next Sunday with more than 40 events citywide. The weeklong festival includes cooking classes, chef dinners, wine tastings and food expeditions. The Grand Tasting event on Nov. 18 will feature more than 200 wine, beer and spirit purveyors alongside 70 San Diego restaurants and will be held at the Embarcadero Marina Park North at 400 Kettner Blvd. Besides attracting some of the world’s top chefs — this year’s headliner is celebrity chef Charles Phan — the festival raises scholarship funds for students and professionals in San Diego’s culinary, enology and hospitality communities. New this year is an event featuring celebrity chef Steve Brown, who will prepare a multicourse dining experience at Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center in National City. The event — called Steve Brown’s Farmers Table — will cost $95 and feature Heritage Berkshire Kurobuta pork, A5 Satsuma Wagyu Beef and Imperial Wagyu. Tickets can be purchased for individual events or as part of packages; some events are free. Visit the website for more information.

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The San Diego Symphony presents “Fabulous France,” a Jacobs Masterworks concert 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall, 700 B St., downtown. $25-$98, plus service charges. (619) 235-0804 or sandiegosymphony.org The “Fabulous France” concerts this weekend, led by French guest conductor Johannes Debus, will feature Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, Fauré’s Suite From Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80, Debussy’s Ibéria, No. 2, and selections from JeanPhillipe Rameau’s opera suite, Les Indes galantes. French Canadian pianist Louis Lortie will be the soloist on Ravel’s jazz-inflected Piano Concerto in G Major.

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Art, Rhythm & Wine Festival

The Art, Rhythm & Wine Festival fundraiser and social event held at the Forum Shopping Center, (1923 Calle Barcelona, Carlsbad, 92009) on Saturday October 14th was the place of a lot of smiles, dancing, and great fun. Over 50 artists attended to show fantastic works of their finest art. The silent auction held by Us4Warriors to help military members and their families was a major success.

Hillary Adkins, Bill Boyer, and Ariel Worden.

Us4Warrior Auctioning Art.

Bill Gilmer, Martha Gilmer, Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Katherine Faulconer, Ann Haddad, Ben Haddad, Karen Kessler, Warren Kessler.

Margaret and Mike Paddock.

Hillary Adkins, Elisabeth Sullivan.

Evelyn and Bill Lamden.

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Mitch Woodbury and Juliana Schaefer.

San Diego Symphony OPUS Gala & Season Opener, Saturday, Oct. 7: Our city’s leading performing arts organization, the San Diego Symphony, launched it’s 2017-18 downtown season with a double-header of A Hero’s Life on October 6 & 7, featuring renowned guest conductor Edo de Waart and one of the world’s greatest pianists, Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Saturday night included the annual OPUS gala and after-party where many members of the arts and culture scene, community partners and musicians celebrated the new season, and the evening’s concert was complemented by an enthusiastic full house.

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