Daily Business Report: Friday, April 18, 2025
The State of the County Resistance
By Lisa Halverstadt| Voice of San Diego
Acting San Diego County Board Chair Terra Lawson-Remer turned an annual county address long packed with reviews of bipartisan investments and plans for county government into a progressive rallying cry.
Lawson-Remer laid out what she deemed San Diego County’s “local battle plan” to fight the Trump administration in a Wednesday night speech at the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park.
“Even if Washington is abandoning its responsibilities, we – together – can still fulfill America’s promise – San Diego County’s promise,” Lawson-Remer said. “It’s our choice. We can wait. Or we can lead. San Diego County, let’s lead.”
License to Kill
By Robert Lewis | CalMatters
The California DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to operate on our roadways. Too often they go on to kill. Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again.
Ivan Dimov was convicted of reckless driving in 2013, after fleeing police in Washington state while his passenger allegedly dumped heroin out the window. Before that, he got six DUIs in California over a six-year period. None of that would keep him off the road.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles reissued him a driver’s license in 2017. The next year, on Christmas Eve, he drove drunk again, running stop signs and a traffic light in midtown Sacramento, going more than 80 mph, court records show. He T-boned another car, killing a 28-year-old man who was going home to feed the cat before heading to his mom’s for the holiday.
Kostas Linardos had 17 tickets — including for speeding, reckless driving and street racing — and had been in four collisions. Then, in November 2022, he gunned his Ram 2500 truck as he entered a Placer County highway and slammed into the back of a disabled sedan, killing a toddler, court records show. He’s now facing felony manslaughter charges.
In December of last year, while that case was open, the DMV renewed his driver’s license.
UC Berkeley’s 2025 Male Supremacism Studies Conference
By Katy Gimes | California Globe
With all of the really serious news in California – Gov. Newsom suing the Trump administration again, Valero closing its Benicia refinery, Kamala Harris will/will not run for governor, high violent crime, $5.00 a gallon for gas, biological boys in girls’ sports, Democrats killing a voter ID bill – we are ready for something a little lighter, news that is cheery or playful, or news to make raging feminists feel good in their REI hiking pants and sun-protective fabric shirts.
We found it.
The UC Berkeley “Male Supremacism Studies Conference.”
This inspirational event is Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. Co-sponsored by: Western States Center and the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies.
