Pala Today News – 1/6/26

The following items are part of the award-winning “Pala Today” newscast heard this day at noon on PALA REZ RADIO™ 91.3 FM in Pala.

LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

Between 50 and 60 people gathered in the rain on Sunday at the Oceanside Civic Center to protest the Trump administration’s military operation in Venezuela the previous day.  Organizers included the Democratic Club of Carlsbad-Oceanside, Indivisible 49, and People for Peace & Justice.  Because much of the international community views captured Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro as a dictator, many expatriate Venezuelans are celebrating the U.S. military invasion.  Others believe the decision was motivated to gain access to the country’s oil reserves and sets a dangerous exploitation precedent.  In his first court appearance in New York yesterday Maduro pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges.  Since Saturday, President Trump has again expressed interest in taking over resource-rich Greenland, threatened Columbia with military action, and made veiled threats against Mexico if it doesn’t address drug trafficking.  https://www.newsbreak.com/fox-5-san-diego-1589916/4427144788663-north-county-residents-rally-over-u-s-operation-in-venezuela

The parents of a man who died while in custody at Vista jail have filed a wrongful death suit against the county for not providing adequate medication and psychiatric care for 43-year old Corey Michael Dean, who was known to have mental health issues. https://www.newsbreak.com/newsradio-600-kogo-562159/4426247906126-parents-of-man-who-died-in-vista-jail-file-lawsuit

The Escondido Public Library’s temporary move into North County Mall while its main digs are being remodeled has been an unexpected boon.  Though foot traffic is about what it was at the downtown stand-alone location, library card registrations are up almost 20% – about an extra 100 per month.  The city’s 45-year old facility on S. Kalmia closed last spring and is expected to reopen this summer with repaired roofing and windows as well as new public spaces, including a food vending area, study pods and collaboration areas, reflective of the current trend for libraries to serve more of a community space function and not just be a book repository. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/01/04/escondido-library-thriving-at-temporary-mall-site-during-construction/

New laws that went into effect January 1 in California probably won’t change your life too much.  They’re mostly adjustments to existing laws and mandates to state agencies to follow up on certain things.  One requires more insurers to cover in-vitro fertilization.  Another one requires more California State Universities to offer automatic admission to graduating high school seniors who meet their requirements.  Some address regulating artificial intelligence.  And tortillas sold in California now must contain folic acid to help prevent birth defects, which show up at a higher rate for Latina mothers.  Research shows that folic acid can reduce birth defects by up to 70%.  About half as many Latina women report taking folic acid the moth before they became pregnant as did white women.  Some large manufacturers have been adding folic acid to their products for years.  Mission Foods began fortifying its masa products in 2016. https://calmatters.org/health/2025/12/tortilla-law-folic-acid-california/

There is one new law that will affect just about everyone.  Plastic bags are no longer allowed at grocery checkout counters statewide.  They began disappearing several months ago.  The new rule requires retailers to instead offer paper bags for a fee or encourage customers to bring their own reusable bags.  It’s an environmental move.  The legislation’s author whose district includes much of coastal North County says hundreds of billions of plastic bags are used and discarded worldwide each year.  Many end up along roads, in the oceans and on beaches where they remain for generations. https://www.newsbreak.com/fox-5-san-diego-1589916/4425525445160-shoppers-adjust-as-california-plastic-bag-ban-goes-into-effect

About 600 SDG&E customers in Valley Center lost power this morning just after 3:30a due to equipment damage from a traffic accident.  Power is expected to be restored by 1p. https://www.sdge.com/residential/customer-service/outage-center/outage-map

Pala still has a chance for up to another tenth of an inch of rain over the next 24 hours, then a sunny week ahead with temperatures rising to the low 70s this weekend.  The full forecast is coming up. (below)

 

Mass at Pala Mission Church is broadcast live on Rez Radio 91.3 and streamed live on the Rez Radio App every Sunday at 8a. 

 

SPORTS

In the NFL – Six head coaches have been fired this season.  Now come their lieutenants.  The Washington Commanders today fired offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury and defensive coordinator Joe Whitt Jr.  Kingsbury had one year left on his contract and was still getting money from the Arizona Cardinals who fired him as head coach in 2022.  https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47528237/sources-kingsbury-whitt-commanders-coordinators

And the Dallas Cowboys have fired defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus.  Dallas finished the regular season last in the league in points per game and 30^th in yards per game.  Eberflus was their third defensive coordinator in as many years. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47526360/sources-matt-eberflus-cowboys-defensive-coordinator

College Football Playoffs results and schedule –

Fri 12/19 – #8 Oklahoma 24, #9 Alabama 34

Sat 12/20 – #10 Miami 10, #7 Texas A&M 3

Sat 12/20 – #11 Tulane 10, #6 Ole Miss 41

Sat 12/20 – #12 James Madison 34, #5 Oregon 51

Quarterfinals

Wed 12/31 –Cotton Bowl in Arlington, TX – Miami 21, Ohio State 14

Thu 1/1 – Orange Bowl in Miami Gardens – Oregon 23, Texas Tech 0

Thu 1/1 – Rose Bowl – Alabama 3, Indiana 38

Thu 1/1 – Sugar Bowl in New Orleans – Ole Miss 39, Georgia 34

Coming up …

Thu 1/8 – Fiesta Bowl – Miami v Ole Miss semifinal at 4:30p on ESPN

Fri 1/9 – Peach Bowl – Oregon v. Indiana semifinal at 4:30p on ESPN

Mon 1/19 – CFP National Championship game at Miami Gardens, FL at 4:30p on ESPN

In the NBA – Detroit routed the visiting Knicks 121-90.  Charlotte dominated the Thunder in Oklahoma City 124-97.  Denver edged Philadelphia 125-124 in overtime.  Other winners included Boston, Toronto, Houston, and Portland.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr was ejected from last night’s game for arguing a pair of foul calls that likely would have made the difference in Golden State’s 103-102 loss to the Clippers.  Officiating chief Brian Forte later admitted the second one was a blown call.  Golden State’s Steph Curry fouled out for the first time in four years.  Clippers rookie Kobe Sanders had a career-high 20 points with seven defensive rebounds.  And no, he’s not named after Kobe Bryant.  His parents named him after their favorite getaway spot, the Kobe Japanese Steakhouse in Palm Springs. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6944559/2026/01/06/steve-kerr-ejected-warriors-clippers-game-arguing-officials/ 

In hockey – Justin Sourdif scored his first NHL hat trick as the Capitals beat the Ducks 7-4.  The Kings beat the visiting Wild 4-2.  Others winners were Detroit, Seattle, and Utah over the New York Rangers 3-2 in overtime.  Ten games tonight including the Ducks at Philadelphia.

In the minors – The San Diego Gulls next game is tomorrow hosting San Jose.

In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals next game is this Friday hosting Toronto.

In racing – NASCAR commissioner Steve Phelps resigned today after inflammatory texts he sent during contentious revenue-sharing negotiations were revealed in trial last month.  The 2026 NASCAR season begins February 1 at Winston-Salem, North Carolina. https://apnews.com/article/nascar-phelps-resignation-trial-childress-texts-269f842e90ca62d5caa59ad0c620a08d

Local High School Sports –

Bonsall – boys’ basketball at School for Entrepreneurship & Technology at 5:30p;

Great Oak – girls’ soccer at Vista Murrieta at 4p; boys’ and girls’ basketball against Chaparral beginning at 4p with games on both campuses; girls’ water polo hosting Temecula Valley at 5p

Fallbrook – girls’ soccer at Sage Creek at 4:30p

Valley Center – varsity girls’ basketball at Classical Academy at 5p; boys’ basketball at Bishops at 5:30p

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were up again today.  The Dow gained 9 tenths of a percent.  The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were each up a little less than a half percent.  Comex gold shot up another $50.50 to $4,502 an ounce.  West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures gave up yesterday’s gain, falling 69 cents to $57.65 a barrel.

Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the private agency founded in 1967 that oversaw federal funding for PBS and NPR as well as hundred of public television and radio stations across the country, voted yesterday to dissolve the organization.  CPB president and CEO, Patricia Harrison said the move was preferable to operating as an empty shell without funding and “vulnerable to additional attacks.” CPB has been winding down since Congress acted last summer to take back federal funds allocated to public broadcasting.  Republicans have long accused public broadcasting – especially its news coverage of having a liberal bias.  It wasn’t until the second Trump administration and a GOP-controlled Congress that the criticism turned into action.  Full disclosure: Rez Radio has never received direct federal funding from CPB, but it does carry some programming from sources that have now been cut off from CPB-administered funding. https://apnews.com/article/public-broadcasting-pbs-npr-b68f441c227ec7e076c038821b4a5931

Improving sales numbers reported yesterday by GM were followed by equally good news today from Ford.  Its U.S. vehicle sales increased by 6% last year – its biggest annual sales gain since 2019.  That makes it the third-largest U.S. vehicle manufacturer behind Toyota and domestic sales leader General Motors.  Sales of the popular F-150 pickup gained 8.3% for the year, despite being off by 5.2% in the fourth quarter.  All-electric Ford sales were off by 14.1% including a 52% plunge in Q4, during which time Ford pulled the plug on the all-electric F-150 Lightning.  Hybrid sales took up some of the slack.  They were up 22%.  https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/ford-f-2025-annual-sales.html 

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Cases of the flu are spiking across the nation as children head back to school.  According to a nationwide survey taken last month, only just over half have and one in three parents don’t plan to get their child a flu shot this winter.  41% admit to sending them to school or daycare with known symptoms of cold or flu.  The main reasons given were:  symptoms seemed mild, and no available childcare.  37% of parents say they only keep kids home if they have a fever.  Almost one third aren’t confident which preventative care visits their child needs each year.  One in ten say their child has missed all preventive care in the last three years.  Survey results are from Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/blog/preventative-care-statistics/

Christmas is almost a distant memory for many of us with trees either already recycled or at the curb for pickup this week.  But more than a third of all Christmas tree fires happen in January.  For that reason, the National Fire Protection Association is strongly recommending removing Christmas trees as soon as possible.  Fresh trees dry out over time, making them more flammable the longer they remain on display in the home.  A dried-out Christmas tree will burn much more quickly than a well-watered one.  There aren’t very many structural home fires that begin with Christmas trees.  But it is a notable fire problem, considering the short time they’re in use.  Over the past four years, there have been seven civilian deaths and 13 severe injuries nationwide due to Christmas tree fires which caused $15m in direct property damage.  www.NFPA.org

On this day in music history – January 6,

• 1956, Elvis Presley performed in the gym of Randolph, Mississippi’s high school.  It was the last time he ever played a venue that small
• In 1958, Gibson guitars launched its “Flying V” model, later used by Albert Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons among others
• In 1967, The Who played their first of 200 gigs that year, including their first-ever U.S. tour
• In 1968, The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” began the first of 8 weeks at #1 on the album chart.  It was their 11^th chart-topping album out of 11 released.
• In 1973, Carly Simon topped the singles chart for the first of three weeks with “You’re So Vain” featuring Mick Jagger on backing vocals.  After 40 years of speculation by the public, she finally admitted it was about actor Warren Beatty – but only one verse.  The other two verses were about two other men.
• In 1975, the Mayor of Boston cancelled a Led Zeppelin concert after 2k fans rioted trying to buy tickets.  They caused upwards of $75k damage at Boston Garden arena.  The show was rescheduled for February 4.
• On the same day, Pink Floyd began recording “Wish You Were Here”, their 9^th studio album.  The song “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” was a tribute to former band member Syd Barrett, who had left the band seven years earlier over mental issues.  Those first sessions on this day in 1975 coincided with Barret’s birthday.
• In 1977, EMI dropped the Sex Pistols giving them $68k and a release from their contract.
• In 1980, Georgianna Tillman from The Marvelettes died from lupus and sickle cell anemia at the age of 35.  She’d known about the anemia since childhood and was diagnosed with lupus two years after the group’s 1961 #1 hit “Please Mr. Postman”
• In 1990, Phil Collins began the first of three weeks at #1 on the album chart with “…But Seriously”.  The first single, “Another Day in Paradise” won Record of the Year at that year’s Grammys.
• In 2001, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour won the legal right to his own dot com name from a man who had registered the URL DavidGilmour.com and was selling Pink Floyd merchandise on the site.
• In 2006, soul singer Lou Rawls died of lung cancer at the age of 72.  In his career he released more than 60 albums, selling a total of 40m copies.
• In 2017, Norway announced plans to become the first country in the world to stop broadcasting on the FM band.  The move was part of a plan to ditch analog broadcasting in favor of an all-digital format which would bring clearer sound to the nation’s 5m people.

Born on this day …

• In 1924, banjo picker Earl Scruggs from Flatt & Scruggs, best-known for their “Ballad of Jed Clampett” on the TV sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies”.  He popularized the three-finger picking style now known as Scruggs style.
• In 1929, Wilbert Harrison who had the 1959 #1 hit “Kansas City”
• In 1935, Nino Tempo, who with April Stevens had the 1963 chart-topper “Deep Purple”.
• In 1937, singer Doris Troy who worked with Dionne Warwick and sang on Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” album, Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain”, The Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” as well as having a solo Top 10 hit with “Just One Look” in 1963.
• In 1944, singer and producer Van McCoy, best known for the 1975 #1 hit, “The Hustle”
• In 1946, original Pink Floyd singer and guitarist Syd Barrett, who left the group in 1968, released two solo albums and then became a recluse for the next three decades before dying at age 60 of complications from diabetes.
• In 1953, Malcolm Young from AC/DC
• In 1959, Kathy Sledge from Sister Sledge
• In 1964, Mark O’Toole, bass player from Frankie Goes to Hollywood

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=6&month=1

 

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• British actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson, best known as Mr. Bean is 71
• Actor Eddie Redmayne is 46
• Comedienne Kate McKinnon is 42
• Among those who’ve passed, actor, comedian and founder of St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital Danny Thomas was born this day in 1912
• Character actor Vic Tayback, best remembered as Mel from TV’s “Alice” was born in 1930
• Bonnie Franklin from TV’s “One Day at a Time” was born in 1944

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0106.htm

 

Programming on Rez Radio 91.3 is made possible in part by the Pala Band of Mission Indians and donations from listeners like you.  Call 760 742 4200 or email 91.3@palatribe.com for details on contributing to community radio in Pala.

Call the Pala Fire Department at 760 742 1632 before starting any open fires to get the day’s Cal Fire and APCD recommendations.  Fire Department permits are required for any burning on Pala tribal land.

Pala seniors’ lunch menu for tomorrow (1/7) – killer crack chicken, red potatoes and vegetables

The Pala Band of Mission Indians has employment opportunities including full time and part time.  For a list, go to the Palatribe dot com website.

Go to Facebook.com/RezRadio for community events and news affecting, or of interest to Pala and inland North County.

Listen to Rez Radio just about anywhere and access all of our assets with the free Rez Radio App, available at Google Play and the Apple App Store.

A transcript of this newscast will be available at our website, Rez Radio dot FM and on the Rez Radio App an hour or two after broadcast.

 

WEATHER

Pala Weather – mostly sunny with a high of 66 and a slight chance of rain after 4p today, increasing to 30% tonight … the chance for up to a tenth of an inch of rain ends tomorrow at mid-morning when it will clear to mostly sunny and 64 … sunny and 66 Thursday … 68 Friday … 72 Saturday … 76 Sunday … 75 Monday … overnight lows, 45 tonight … 43 tomorrow night … about 41 Thursday and Friday night … about 43 Saturday and Sunday night

In addition to 91.3 FM in the San Luis Rey River valley, REZ RADIO can also be heard on the REZ RADIO APP (the best was to listen), at www.RezRadio.FM , iHeartRadio, TuneIn.com and Radio.Garden.  On the I Heart Radio and TuneIn apps, search “Rez Radio” and save us as a favorite.  On Radio dot Garden, just zoom in on the world map to find Pala, CA.  

SMART SPEAKERS – For Amazon devices like Echo and Dot, just say “Alexa, play KPRI.”  For Google devices, “Hey Google, play KPRI.”  If you prefer the iHeart stream, enable the iHeart skill and tell your smart speaker to “… ask iHeartRadio to play Rez Radio 91.3.  (or, … to play KPRI).

 

This update courtesy of “PALA REZ RADIO^TM” 91.3 FM, Pala, CA.  To unsubscribe, reply to this email with the word “unsubscribe” in the subject line.  The “unsubscribe” option is not available to employees of the Pala Band of Mission Indians at their employee email address.  Feel free to forward this to your friends and encourage them to subscribe or report news and community events by sending an email to 91.3@palatribe.com  

 

---

LISTEN TO REZ RADIO

Rez Radio Website – Listen to Rez Radio 91.3 through your browser at RezRadio.fm.

iHeartRadio Website – Listen to Rez Radio 91.3 through your browser at iHeart.com.

iHeartRadio Apps – Download the free iHeartRadio music app for iOS, Android, Windows, and participating car, home, and portable devices. Once the app has been downloaded, search for “Rez Radio” and save us as your favorite.

TuneIn Website – Listen to Rez Radio 91.3 through your browser at Tunein.com.

TuneIn Apps – Download the free TuneIn music app for iOS, Android, Windows, and participating car, home, and portable devices. Once the app has been downloaded, search for “Rez Radio” and save us as your favorite.

AudioNow – Provided by AudioNow, listen to Rez Radio 91.3 anywhere there is phone service by dialing (712) 775-5748. There is no cost for the service, but calls will use mobile plan minutes. If you’re calling from a landline, normal long distance charges will apply.

---

 

The Community Events and Casino Corner portions of this newsletter can be heard three times daily Mon-Sun on Rez Radio, at 7:25a, 12:25p (in Pala Today M-F), and at 5:25p as the “Pala Community Calendar”. Submit items for the calendar to 91.3@palatribe.com at least a week before the event.

You can view the events on the Calendar page.

---

SHOWS

You can find a wide-range of Pala Rez Radio programming at www.RezRadio.FM

---

RESOURCES

The Pala Band of Mission Indians and Rez Radio gathered this list of resources as a courtesy and offers no guarantee of accuracy. Please contact us if you find an error or if any link needs to be updated.

Check out the list of information on our Resources page.