That may sound like plenty, but it's not. By summer's end last year, the figure was more like 10 trillion gallons. In a state this big and this thirsty, an October supply in the mere 13 digits gets water officials more than a little nervous. Even doctors need checkups, particularly when it comes to their financial books. HMOs get frequent checkups.
Hospitals get checkups.
But the doctor groups that actually provide the care have largely escaped the focus of regulators. Rex Babin cartoons San Diego Union Tribune East County's positive side shines at Expo Saturday Last spring, Ted Crooks wrote a commentary for the Union-Tribune that accentuated the many positives in East County as the community was still reeling from the shootings at Santana and Granite Hills High Schools. Crooks, a Grossmont Union board member, generated so much response from residents of the county's second largest high school district that he was inspired to build on that momentum. The bitter rancor that has consumed the San Diego city school board poses a growing threat to the promising reforms put in place by Superintendent Alan Bersin. This community must demand that the five trustees, long divided into two hostile camps, put an immediate end to the petty strife that has become their personal obsession.