Daily Business Report-March 23, 2018
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Single-Payer Health Care:
What Californians Need to Know
You’ve probably been hearing a lot about a “single-payer” health plan for California. It’s a major overhaul of the state’s health system, shifting most responsibility to government at an estimated cost of about $400 billion. It passed the state Senate last year before stalling in the Assembly. And you’ll hear about it in this year’s election. So what is it? CALmatters health reporter Elizabeth Aguilera answers your questions. Click here
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Scripps Family Contributes $4.6 Million
to Two Scripps Oceanography Projects
The University of California San Diego announced charitable gifts from more than a dozen descendants of Edward W. Scripps that will make possible two crucial and high-profile projects at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The gifts underscore the family’s commitment to the advance the mission of Scripps Oceanography to find solutions to our greatest environmental challenges.
Included in the projects covered by the $4.6 million in family gifts is the replacement of the railing on the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier ($2.6 million), and the reconstruction and modernization of the Center for Coastal Studies ($2 million), which will be named after longtime supporters Charles and Lois “Beano” Scripps. The Miller Hull Partnership is the architect for the reconstruction and modernization of the Center for Coastal Studies.
“The scientific research completed at the Charles and Beano Scripps Center for Coastal Studies and on the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier is vital to further our understanding of coastal processes,” said Margaret Leinen, vice chancellor of marine sciences at UC San Diego and director of Scripps Oceanography. “We’re very fortunate to have the Scripps family’s continued support of our mission to find solutions to our greatest environmental challenges.”
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BAE Systems to Get Potential $36.3 Million
Contract for USS Pearl Harbor Maintenance
BAE Systems will perform repairs, maintenance and updates on the U.S. Navy‘s USS Pearl Harbor under a potential $36.3 million contract for the dock landing ship’s restricted availability in fiscal year 2018, ExecutiveBiz reported.
The Defense Department said the company’s San Diego-based ship repair business will work on Harpers Ferry-class USS Pearl Harbor through May 2019 with initial funds of $34.1 million.
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Get Sample Ballot Emailed to You
Be among the first in San Diego County to get your sample ballot and voter information pamphlet every election season by signing up to get election materials by email.
At one time, state and local laws required the Registrar to mail paper copies of the sample ballot and voter information pamphlet to each registered voter. Now the Registrar can send them out electronically, and some 80,000 County voters get their election materials in their email inbox.
Those who sign up save tons of paper and taxpayer dollars in printing and mailing costs. The election materials also appear in their inboxes immediately after they are released while other voters must wait a day or so before the pamphlets show up in their mailbox.
Any registered voters interested in getting materials electronically for the June election should sign up by the end of this month. Starting in late April, the Registrar will begin the process of mailing out 1.6 million sample ballot pamphlets for the June election. Those who don’t make the deadline will see a postcard on the back of their sample ballot reminding them they can sign up for electronic mailings for future elections.
For more information, call (858) 565-5800 or visit sdvote.com.
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Cubic Taps CPI for UAV
Ground Terminals, Antennas
Cubic’s mission solutions business has awarded multiple contracts to Communications and Power Industries to supply a ground data terminal and antennas for unmanned aerial vehicle operations, Space Daily.
CPI will provide the HD-30T Ground Data Terminal and tactical airborne common data link antennas, such as the AT-20 two-axis Data Link Antenna, to Cubic.
HD-30T is designed to help ground operators track UAVs and secure Ku-band communications through radio frequency modems.
CPI designed its antenna products to facilitate connectivity between UAV and military users on ground.
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TSRI Scientists Say Genetic
Mutation May Ward Off Malaria
A genetic mutation that may protect people from malaria, but was thought to be rare, is surprisingly common, suggest the findings of a new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI). The discovery sheds light on how humans who live in close quarters with malaria-carrying mosquitos may evolve defenses against the disease.
