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Pala Today News – 3/19/25

Written by John Fox on March 19, 2025

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

Sixteen federal search warrants were served yesterday morning in Escondido, San Diego, Orange County and Roanoke, Virginia as part of an operation targeting an Escondido-based drug network. The alleged ring is accused of trafficking large amounts of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine and the prescription medication, Adderall. Yesterday’s raids yielded about 116 pounds of meth, more than four pounds of fentanyl, and what the US Attorney’s Office says were “substantial quantities” of the other two. About 100 federal agents and other law enforcement gathered in a parking lot near Escondido Police Headquarters just before yesterday’s sweep began. 16 people were arrested – 11 of them were from Escondido. The others lived in San Diego, Oceanside, Encinitas, National City, and Irvine.

The 22^nd District Agricultural Association, the operators of the Del Mar Fairgrounds voted yesterday to resume negotiations with the City of Del Mar to build 60 affordable homes at the Fairgrounds. The San Diego region has a state mandate to build more than 170k homes. Del Mar’s portion is only 163, with 101 of them low and very-low income units. 100 permits have already been issued – most of them, additional dwelling units on existing properties. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/north-county-news/del-mar-fairgrounds-resumes-affordable-housing-discussions

At least one lane will be closed northbound on I-15 between Rancho California Road and Murrieta Hot Springs Road from 9p to 6a tonight and tomorrow night. Contractors will be performing pavement work as part of the French Valley Parkway and I-15/215 interchange project. https://patch.com/california/temecula/i-15-through-temecula-nighttime-closures-announced

Sunny days with high temperatures in the mid-70s to about 80 this week. Mid to upper 80s beginning Monday. 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 NBA – The Clippers’ win streak is now four as they beat the visiting Cavaliers 132-119. Kawhi Leonard had 33 points for LA, who are still in 8^th place, just a half game behind Minnesota and a full game behind Golden State. The Lakers are in fourth place, four games ahead of the Clippers. Oklahoma City leads the Western Conference and have clinched for the playoffs. New Orleans and Utah have been eliminated. In the Eastern Conference, Cleveland has clinched the division. They’re 6 ½ games ahead of second-place Boston, who’ve also clinched a spot in the playoffs. Nobody eliminated yet the East. https://www.espn.com/nba/standings

Yesterday’s other winners were Boston, Atlanta, and Golden State.

In college hoops – San Diego State was eliminated in yesterday’s First Four game against North Carolina who routed the Aztecs 95-68 at Viejas Arena. The other First Four game winner was St. Francis. In the NIT, Santa Clara demolished UC Riverside 101-62. Other first round winners were Kent State, Jacksonville State, Chattanooga over Middle Tennessee in triple overtime, Arkansas State, Oklahoma State, and Stanford.

In the NHL – Yesterday’s winners were Montreal, Calgary, Washington, St. Louis, Dallas, Seattle, Edmonton, Vancouver and the New York Islanders.

In minor league hockey – the San Diego Gulls next game is tonight at San Jose.

In Major League Baseball – The Dodgers swept the Tokyo series against the Cubs, winning again today 6-3. LA second baseman Tommy Edman homered in the second. Shohei Ohtani thrilled the sellout crowd by launching a solo home run in the 5^th inning. A ten-year old fan ended up with the ball after it bounced back onto the field and Chicago center-fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong tossed it into the stands. Young Sota Fujimori says the ball is now a family treasure. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44314975/10-year-old-fan-scores-shohei-ohtani-home-run-ball-tokyo

The next regular season MLB game isn’t until a week from tomorrow. In preseason games yesterday, the Giants edged the Padres 4-3. Cincinnati topped the Angels 1-0. Today, the Angels play Cleveland and the Padres have the day off.

In Major League Soccer – This Saturday, the Galaxy are at Minnesota Untied, and LAFC is at Sporting Kansas City. San Diego is at Austin on Sunday.

In Lacrosse – The San Diego Seals play at Calgary this Saturday.

In Rugby – The San Diego Legion’s next game is Saturday at USD’s Torero Stadium hosting Miami. https://stats.majorleague.rugby/fixtures/

In the NFL – The Minnesota Vikings have ended their discussions with free agent quarterback Aaron Rodgers. That makes second-year player J.J. McCarthy as their likely starting quarterback. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44314606/sources-vikings-roll-mccarthy-not-pursuing-rodgers

In local high school sports:

Bonsall – no scheduled games today

Great Oak – varsity boys’ tennis hosting Murrieta Valley at 3:15p; softball and baseball against Chaparral at 3:30p, baseball and varsity softball hosting, JV softball away; boys’ volleyball at Vista Murrieta at 5p; lacrosse against Vista Murrieta at 5:30p, girls’ hosting, boys’ away

Fallbrook – softball hosting San Ysidro at 3p; swimming & diving hosting Escondido Charter at 3:30p; boys’ tennis hosting Escondido at 3:30p; boys’ JV golf hosting Mission Vista at Pala Mesa at 3:30p; boys’ lacrosse at Pacific Ridge at 4p; gymnastics at Torrey Pines at 4p; boys’ volleyball hosting Del Lago at 4:30p

Valley Center – softball hosting Classical Academy at 3:30p; track & field hosting San Dieguito at 3:30p; JV boys’ tennis at Rancho Buena Vista at 3:30p; varsity baseball at Mission Vista at 4p; varsity girls’ lacrosse hosting Rancho Buena Vista at 6p

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were up on all three major US indexes. The Dow gained four tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was up more than a half. And the Nasdaq rose ¾ of a percent. Comex gold futures were up 40 cents at $3,041.20 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures gained 41 cents to $67.31 a barrel.

The Federal Reserve announced at its media conference today that it is holding interest rates steady for now at about 4 ¼ to 4 ½%, but indicated two likely rate cuts later this year. Inflation is up and the economy is slowing. Faced with that dilemma, many economists expect the Fed to stay on the sidelines until some of the dust settles. The Fed normally raises rates when inflation increases and lowers them when the economy slows. In part, because of the unfolding tariff war, both things are happening at the same time. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/19/fed-rate-decision-march-2025.html

Google parent company, Alphabet’s stock dipped 4% yesterday on news of its acquisition of cybersecurity startup, Wiz to help Google improve its third-place market share in that sector behind Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon Web Services. Though Google needed the service, investors seem to think Alphabet overpaid at $32b in cash. That’s about one third of the cash Alphabet had on hand. www.morningbrew.com

Faced with the prospects of protests and vandalism that have occurred elsewhere, including right here in Encinitas a few days ago, the Vancouver International Auto Show has removed Tesla from its event this week over safety concerns for vendors and attendees. There have been protests at Canadian Tesla facilities and the company’s vehicles have been excluded from British Columbia’s electric vehicle rebate program as a result of the tariff war with the US. Tesla had been given several chances to voluntarily withdraw from the Vancouver show, which has an annual attendance of over 100k people. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-auto-show-tesla-removed-1.7487191

Miso Robotics has sold out the first run of its latest fast food robot. The new Flippy is capable of handling cooking duties at fast food restaurants, is only half the size of the first Flippy and is now being tested by Jack in the Box and White Castle. Miso is scaling up to meet buyer demand for the fry-cook that always gets it right and never calls in sick. But at $5,400 a month, a Flippy, working 12 hours a day is still slightly more expensive than a median wage real person. But at 24 hours a day, Flippy is a significant savings. And Miso claims that Flippy works faster than human employees with fewer mistakes. https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/miso-robotics-develops-smaller-faster-flippy-white-castle-jack-in-the-box/738567/

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Tesla has won a California permit to begin offering rides in autonomous vehicles. It’s the first step towards Tesla robotaxis. The newly acquired Transport Charter Permit allows for a shuttle service for employees with drivers behind the wheel for backup. Other possible uses are prearranged roundtrip sightseeing. That’s considerably less flexibility than Uber and Lyft, whose current Transportation Network Company permits allow drivers with personal vehicles to connect with paying passengers through an app. For Tesla to progress to the point of offering driverless robotaxis to the paying public requires permission from both the state Public Utilities Commission and the Department of Motor Vehicles. https://insideevs.com/news/753966/tesla-ride-hailing-permit-california/

President Trump yesterday fired two of the five members of the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces consumer protection and anti-trust laws. Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter both took to social media to say their firings were illegal. Bedoya’s post went on to say, “the president wants the FTC to be a lapdog for his golfing buddies.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/business/ftc-commissioners-fired/index.html

On this day in music history – March 19,

1962, Bob Dylan’s first album was released. Containing only two original compositions with the rest all being old folk standards, it flopped. But it got good reviews and the success of Bob’s future albums made it eventually sell well.
In 1964, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who two years later would be sung about in a less than complimentary way in the song, “Taxman” presented The Beatles with awards as show business personalities of the year for 1963.
In 1971, Jethro Tull released their fourth album, “Aqualung”.
In 1974, Jefferson Airplane re-named their group Jefferson Starship with four new members including jazz violinist Papa John Creach and Santana percussionist Craig Chaquico.
In 1976, guitarist with Free, Paul Kosof died of heart failure at age 25 on a flight from LA to New York. He’d had a history of drug abuse.
In 1982, guitarist Randy Rhoads, formerly of Quiet Riot and at the time, part of Ozzy Osbourne’s band, died while taking a joyride in a small private plane as they buzzed the group’s tour bus, when a wing clipped the bus.
In 1988, Michael Jackson began construction on the amusement park to be named “Neverland” at his Santa Ynez Valley ranch.
In 2005, 50 Cent became the first solo artist to simultaneously have three singles in the top five – “Candy Shop” at #1, “How We Do” at #4, and “Disco Inferno” at #5.
In 2006, Shakira became the first pop star to release a single only available as a download.
In 2007, singer songwriter Luther Ingram died of a heart attack at 69. His hits included 1972’s, “(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right” and he wrote the Staples Singer’s hit “Respect Yourself”.
In 2018, Drake was at #1 on the singles chart with “God’s Plan”. It stayed there for 11 weeks and a total of 26 weeks in the top ten. The song broke first-day streaming records on both Apple Music and Spotify.

Born on this day …

In 1944, early Grateful Dead keyboardist, Tom Constanten
In 1946, Zombies guitarist Paul Atkinson and Ruth Pointer from The Pointer Sisters
Also in 1952, drummer and founding member of the Bay City Rollers, Derek Longmuir
In 1952, guitarist for the B-52s, Ricky Wilson
In 1955, actor Bruce Willis, who had a 1987 hit with a remake of Luther Ingram’s “Respect Yourself” – a duet with June Pointer

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=19&month=3

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

Actress and author Renee Taylor, best known as mother Sylvia Fine on TV’s “The Nanny” is 92.
Actress Glenn Close is 78
Among those who’ve passed, comedienne “Moms” Mabley was born this day in 1897
Actress Pamela Britton, who played many small parts in 1940s and 50s movies as well as the neighbor, Mrs. Brown on TV’s “My Favorite Martian” was born in 1923
Writer and producer Burt Metcalfe who produced TV’s “M*A*S*H” was born in 1935.

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0319.htm

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 78 this afternoon … 74 tomorrow … 80 Friday … 77 Saturday … 81 Sunday … 88 Monday … patchy morning fog, clearing to mostly sunny and 85 Tuesday … overnight lows, mid-40s through Saturday night … 51 Sunday night … 53 Monday night

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