Pala Today News – 7/15/25
Written by John Fox on July 15, 2025
by John Fox – 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 and worldwide online … click here to listen live or call 712 775 5748. Listen on a smart speaker by asking it to “play KPRI”. Some portions of today’s newscast are only available in the live broadcast and not included in this transcript which is also available an hour or two after broadcast at www.RezRadio.FM . In any emergency, knowledge is power. Use our resources to leverage your family’s safety. Email 91.3@palatribe.com to subscribe to our daily M-F e-newsletter. Follow us at www.facebook.com/rezradio and www.twitter.com/rezradioFM . Additional resources at Palatribe.com
LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
San Diego County’s newest public park opened a couple of weeks ago in Valley Center. Harvest Park is part of the Park Circle development at 27733 Park Circle Way. The park had been private after opening in 2022, but just over two weeks ago, it was transferred to the County and is now open to the public. The 2.6 acre Harvest Park has picnic tables, a stage with a dance slab, several restrooms, bocce ball, two picnic areas with BBQs and horseshoe pits. It features a unique playground, open turf area, two half-court basketball courts and walkways that loop around the park perimeter. Details about Harvest Park can be found at www.SDParks.org . https://www.valleycenter.com/articles/valley-centers-newest-park-now-open-to-public/
Legoland in Carlsbad plans to open a space-themed land early next year that will include an indoor roller coaster the company promises will be its most technologically advanced attraction yet. There will be two other space-themed rides, food venues and souvenirs stores. Entry to the new cosmic park will be included with Legoland general admission. https://www.10news.com/lifestyle/exploring-san-diego/legoland-california-in-carlsbad-to-open-space-themed-land-in-2026
This year’s Emmy nominees have been announced. “Severance” leads with 27 nominations. No other dramas came close to Severance, which stars Adam Scott and Britt Lower – both of whom where nominated for their lead roles. “The Studio” was the most-nominated comedy series with a record-tying 23. Both of those series are Apple+ productions. HBO’s “The Penguin” led the limited series category with 24 nominations including leads Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti. The Netflix limited series “Adolescence” got 13 nominations. The 77th Primetime Emmys will be broadcast from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles September 14. https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/07/15/2025-emmy-nominations/
Weather in Pala will continue as it has for at least another week with daytime highs ranging from 83 to 86 and overnight lows around 57. 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 Major League Baseball – The All-Star Game is today at 5p on Fox. It’s the first time this century that the All-Star Game has been played in Atlanta and the first time ever in Truist Park, which was built in 2017. This year’s top vote-getters were Aaron Judge for the American League and Shohei Ohtani for the National. The Dodgers lead all teams with five players on the All-Star team. The Detroit Tigers and Seattle Mariners have four each. The Dodgers and Tigers each have three on the starting lineup. There are 19 first-time All-Stars. The Padres’ Manny Machando is part of the National League starting lineup. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45576753/2025-mlb-all-star-game-schedule-how-watch-rosters
Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh won yesterday’s Home Run Derby, edging out Tampa third baseman Junior Caminero in the final round, 18 to 15. Raleigh is the first catcher to win the competition. He did it with his father, Todd pitching and his 15-year-old brother catching. Not bad for a third-round draft pick. https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/cal-raleigh-wins-the-home-run-derby-continuing-his-dream-season-120607522.html
In what could be the final step before adding automated ball-strike systems to regular season games next year, ABS will be available in tonight’s All-Star Game. It’s been used in the minor leagues since 2019. The MLB system sets the top of the strike zone at 53.5% of the batter’s height and the bottom at 27%. The width is the width of home plate for all batters. The robot call is made at the midpoint of home plate. That’s different from the rule book for umpires which considers the strike zone to be a cube. ABS will only come into play if a catcher, pitcher or batter challenges an umpire’s call. Each team gets two challenges and retains all successful challenges. In spring training, batters won exactly half of their challenges, while catchers won 56%. Pitchers only won 41% of call challenges. https://apnews.com/article/robot-umpires-mlb-allstar-game-9c50203a1ba8bf9a1969ea5c2cf7cc16
Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and players’ union head Tony Clark say talks are under way to look into allowing major league players to compete in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics during a special, extended All-Star Break that summer. The World Baseball Softball Confederation said yesterday the baseball tournament will be July 15-20, 2028 at Dodger Stadium. The league met with LA28 organizers yesterday in Atlanta as Olympic officials were meeting with the players’ union. A number of major league players have expressed interest in either playing for Team USA or the team of their home country. https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/45746510/mlb-exploring-players-participating-2028-la-olympics
In the NFL – Kansas City Chiefs and right guard Trey Smith have agreed on a four-year $94m contract extension. $70m of it is guaranteed. That makes him the highest-paid interior lineman in league history. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45747043/sources-chiefs-trey-smith-agree-4-year-94m-deal
In Major League Soccer – Tomorrow, San Diego hosts Toronto, the Galaxy host Austin, and LAFC plays Minnesota United in St. Paul.
In racing – The summer horse racing season in Del Mar opens this Friday.
The University of Michigan made history this past weekend, becoming the first school ever to have a first-round pick in the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL drafts all in the same year. As icing on the cake, the Wolverines also had a first-round pick in the Major League Soccer draft with Jason Bucknor going to the Galaxy. https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/cal-raleigh-wins-the-home-run-derby-continuing-his-dream-season-120607522.html
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 8 tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 dropped a quarter percent. The Nasdaq gained four tenths. Gold traded $23.30 lower on the Comex at $3,335.80 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures fell 68 cents to $66.30 a barrel.
Numbers released today by the Labor Department show inflation is heating up and could be early signs that the effect of President Trump’s tariffs is now showing up on store shelves. Prices rose 0.3% between May and June. The annual overall inflation rate was 2.7% in June. Core inflation was 2.9%. Both are the largest upticks since Trump took office. Meanwhile the average tariff on imported goods is the highest it’s been since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It’s now even less likely the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates this month. https://www.npr.org/2025/07/15/nx-s1-5468293/inflation-cpi-consumer-prices-tariffs
According to WalletHub, the San Diego metro area has the fifth-worst inflation in the country. Earlier this year, it was THE worst. Seattle-Tacoma now has that distinction, followed by Boston and Chicago. https://patch.com/california/san-diego/san-diego-among-metro-areas-biggest-inflation-problems-study
Ultium Cells, a joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution said yesterday it will upgrade its Spring Hill, Tennessee plant to make low-cost electric vehicle batteries. The lithium iron phosphate battery cells (known as LFP, for the first letter of the three elements’ symbols) would cost less than current EV battery packs because they don’t require expensive cobalt and nickel like lithium ion batteries. Ultium says commercial production of LFP cells could begin by late 2027. GM also said yesterday that it has invested $900m in new battery development labs in Michigan. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/gm-lg-ultium-spring-hill-tennessee-plant-ev-batteries.html
Nearly one third of the 100 largest markets are now seeing home price declines, according to mortgage technology firm, ICE. The biggest price gains are in the Northeast and Midwest. Inflated prices, high mortgage rates, increasing supply of homes for sale and decreasing demand because of the first three factors have all joined forces to cool the housing market. Inventory nationwide is up 29% compared with one year ago. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/us-housing-markets-falling-prices.html
Honey Baked Ham is opening a new location in the Temecula-Murrieta area. An exact location has yet to be announced, but the deal is just about complete. The company only has two other stores in Riverside county – one in the city of Riverside, the other in Rancho Cucamonga. There are 32 in California out of a total of 455 in 48 states. Honey Baked opened its first store in 1957 in Detroit. The company is still family-owned by descendants of the founder, Harry Hoenselaar. The new store could be open in time for this year’s holiday season, but no later than spring 2026.
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary says drug affordability will be a factor when granting companies new voucher that speed up the approval of some treatments. The priority voucher plan aims to cut review time for new drugs to as little as one or two months for companies the FDA believes are supporting “U.S. national interests.” This is the first time that drug prices have been mentioned as criterion for the new program. The Trump administration needs lower drug prices to balance threatened 200% tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals. Critics worry about the risks of sped up drug reviews and companies that are considered political allies of Trump getting fast-tracked thanks to their connections. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/fda-to-consider-drug-affordability-when-speeding-up-approvals-makary.html
Space startup, Varda had announced last week that it had raised $187m in funding from a pair of venture capital firms towards its goal of manufacturing drugs in space. They say medicines crystallize differently in orbit due to low gravity, allowing certain drugs to be manufactured more easily. Varda’s W-series 1 capsule received FAA flight approval last year. They had successfully created the drug Ritonavir in space the previous year. Alabama-based Varda is the first company to process materials in space outside the International Space Station. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/space-startup-varda-medicine-orbit.html
On this day in music history – July 15,
- In 1956 at the age of 13, Frankie Lymon became the youngest artist to have a chart-topping hit in England with “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”. The song peaked at #6 in the U.S.
- In 1958, then-17-year old John Lennon’s mother, Julia was killed by a drunk driver – an off-duty cop who was later acquitted.
- In 1965 on the Billboard Hot 100, The Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man” was at #3. The Four Tops’ “I Can’t Help Myself” was #2. And The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” was #1. That was a pretty good week for music.
- In 1967, The Doors and Jefferson Airplane played two shows for over 8k fans at Anaheim Convention Center
- In 1972, Elton John began the first of five weeks at #1 on the album chart with “Honky Chateau”, his fifth studio album and his first chart-topper. It contained the hit singles, “Rocket Man” and “Honky Cat”.
- In 1978, The Rolling Stones’ album “Some Girls” began the first of two weeks at #1. The cover featured the Stones in garish drag alongside female celebrities in lingerie ads without getting those celebrities’ permission. Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Raquel Welch, and the estates of Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe all threatened legal action.
- In 1985, nude photographs of Madonna taken seven years earlier appeared in both Playboy and Penthouse magazines.
- In 1989 Pink Floyd performed on a floating stage for over 200k people in Venice, Italy. The crowd was twice what was expected, causing damage to buildings and bridges. It’s Venice, so the smell was already there. It was also broadcast to a worldwide audience estimated at 100m.
- In 1998, Aerosmith had to cancel a U.S. concert tour after drummer Joey Kramer suffered second degree burns when his car caught fire while he was refueling.
- In 2000, Paul Young died of a heart attack at age 53. He’d been a singer with Sad Café, as a solo act and with Mike Rutherford and Paul Carrack as Mike and the Mechanics.
- In 2007, over 10k people applied for a job as P Diddy’s personal assistant after he posted an ad for the position on YouTube.
- In 2015, a judge reduced the damages Pharrell Williams was ordered to pay to $1m for plagiarizing Marvin Gaye’s 1977 hit, “Got to Give It Up”. Gaye’s family was also awarded 50% all future earnings from Williams’ “Blurred Lines”.
- In 2016, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and wife of ten years Gwyneth Paltrow divorced.
Born on this day …
- In 1944, soul singer Millie Jackson
- In 1945, Peter Lewis from Moby Grape
- In 1946, Linda Ronstadt
- In 1947, Peter Banks from Yes
- In 1948, Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle
- In 1949, Trevor Horne from The Buggles
- In 1951, Jamaican musician and producer Gregory Isaacs
- In 1953, disco diva Alicia Bridges
- In 1956, rock guitarist Joe Satriani
- In 1966, frequent Led Zeppelin drummer and son of original Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, Jason Bonham
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=15&month=7
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actor, pro wrestler, and former governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura is 74
- Actor Willie Aames from TV’s “Eight is Enough” is 65
- Actor Brian Austin Green from TV’s “Beverly Hills 90210” is 52
- Fat, not fluffy comedian Gabriel Iglesias is 49
- Among those who’ve passed, Detroit Lions defensive tackle-turned actor Alex Karras, who played Mongo in “Blazing Saddles” was born this day in 1935
- Actor Jan Michael Vincent was born in 1944
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-dd/2080-date0715.htm
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 83 this afternoon … patchy morning low clouds and fog clearing to sunny and 81 tomorrow … 83 Thursday … 84 Friday … 85 Saturday … 86 Sunday and Monday … overnight lows, about 56 or 57 every night through Sunday
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