Daily Business Report: Thursday, March 6th, 2025
Poll on Trump’s 2025 joint address to Congress finds large majority of viewers approve
By Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Kabir Khanna | CBS NEWS
A large majority of speech watchers approved of what they heard from President Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday night.
The viewership was heavily Republican — historically a president’s party draws more of their own partisans. This was no exception, and they liked what they heard.
SLO-ING Down in 2025 Chasing the New Year Sun in Redding
By Marlene Kast
It was two days before the holidays when my husband, Benjamin and I stood on the jet bridge awaiting our flight to San Luis Obispo. It had been a rough month of deadlines, diagnoses, and drama that rattled us enough to prioritize living in the moment.
My reflection in the window looked as tired as I felt. Kneeding the bags under my eyes, I told Benjamin, “I want to just be.”
He nodded, knowing that this made perfect sense, despite the fact I spoke in a dangling verb hungry for its noun. Lately, we had lived in verbs, “stressing, fearing, crying, praying, working,” and now oddly enough, “traveling.”
But this was an escape trip, one spontaneously chosen because we wanted to run to a place we knew nothing about. It was our chance to push reset and stay close to home but far from reality. And so, we chose Central California.
San Diego Council begins rolling back ADU policy that allowed backyard apartment buildings
By Andrew Keats | CBS NEWS
San Diego officials took steps Tuesday to roll back a policy that let property owners build apartment buildings in the backyards of single-family homes.
Why it matters: The program exceeded state requirements for allowing accessory dwelling units (ADU), which represented 20% of all homes permitted in the city in 2023, and had been touted by city leaders as part of their approach to curbing housing prices by boosting production.
How it works: In 2020, the city adopted the “ADU bonus program,” which surpassed a state mandate that cities allow property owners to build three ADUs on single-family lots.
