Padres in the NLDS, a Del Sur Campus Approved, and Why a Promising Poll Deserves Skepticism
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San Diego swept the Chicago Cubs in the National League Wild Card Series, advancing to the NLDS against the Milwaukee Brewers. The clinching win featured a Gavin Sheets home run and a bullpen performance that held Chicago — described by NBC 7 as baseball's most prolific offense — to one run across the entire two-game series. Xander Bogaerts is playing well in the postseason, and Joe Musgrove's return has energized the clubhouse. The Padres finished the regular season 91-71, second in the NL West. Game one of the NLDS is Saturday, October 3rd, at 5:30 p.m. Pacific on FS1, at American Family Field in Milwaukee. The Brewers enter the series at 103 wins and 59 losses.
On the education front, a private school has received approval to build a 6.5-acre campus in Del Sur, a rapidly growing master-planned community in North County. The approval signals that Del Sur's population base has matured to the point where private institutions see a viable market, though specific details about the school's name, grade levels, and precise approval pathway were not fully reported this morning. In Encinitas, parents are continuing to apply public and political pressure to resolve a permitting dispute between the city and the local school district that has delayed a school renovation project. No resolution has been reported as of Friday morning.
The countywide poll showing voter support for Measure B — the half-cent sales-tax proposal targeting Medi-Cal programs and firefighting — is being read by some as a green light for the measure's prospects. That confidence deserves scrutiny. Voters have a well-documented tendency to tell pollsters they support tax increases more often than they actually vote for them, a phenomenon researchers call social-desirability bias. The specific wording of the poll question — which is not included in available reporting — matters enormously: a question framing the tax around firefighting and health care will generate higher support than one that includes fiscal trade-offs or notes the Board of Supervisors retains discretion over fund allocation.
Critics of Measure B have raised a substantive equity argument: a flat sales tax takes a proportionally larger bite from lower-income households than higher-income ones, and that argument could erode support among progressive-leaning voters between now and Election Day. Three signals are worth watching as the measure moves toward a vote: whether traditionally supportive constituencies — labor, faith communities, health-care worker groups — remain active backers or drift toward neutrality; whether late campaign-finance filings show money flowing into opposition efforts; and whether the county releases the poll's full methodology and question wording, which would allow a more reliable read of what the results actually mean.