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In initiating this quest, we realized that it was a unique opportunity to not only create a new look and feel to our site, but to also adopt a new, proactive mindset in discovering better ways we could increase the reach and engagement of our content. Over the next week,...
As city weighs camping ban, San Diego Unified may open parking lots to unhoused students
San Diego Unified is considering a proposal to open city-sanctioned camping and overnight parking on district property to accommodate unhoused students and their families following newly released data that shows a dramatic increase in unsheltered homelessness. This comes as San Diego officials rush to open alternative locations for people without...
Homelessness in San Diego spikes as city nears vote on camping ban. What you need to know
As the number of people living on San Diego sidewalks and riverbeds spikes dramatically, top city officials hope to make it illegal for people experiencing homelessness to live outside on public property. The latest point-in-time count, released Thursday, shows a 32% increase in San Diego’s unsheltered homelessness population — from...
They went to a gun range for a birthday celebration. Then came the threats from right-wing extremists.
Chad Loder chose to celebrate a friend’s birthday on New Year’s Eve with a favorite pastime — going to the shooting range. For the festivities, the group of friends picked Discount Gun Mart’s firing range near Mission Valley, which they heard would welcome people from marginalized groups. That detail was important to Loder and the others, about a dozen in all, since most are queer, transgender, Black or indigenous.
National fight over schools’ gender identity policies reaches Escondido Union
Attorneys representing Escondido Union officials in a federal lawsuit over the district’s gender identity policy are seeking to have the case dismissed. Rincon Middle School teachers Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West filed the suit in late April alleging that the district’s policy, which protects a student’s gender identity from being disclosed, violates their First Amendment right to free speech and free exercise of religion because they are required to “participate in the exclusion of parents from any decision-making regarding a child’s ‘social transition.’”
Fears of wildfires propel Escondido residents to fight back against battery storage plant
Members of a rural valley community near Escondido are pushing back against a proposed battery storage facility which could be built feet from their homes. If completed, what’s known as the Seguro energy storage project would be one of the largest in the country, with dozens of battery containers sitting on more than 22 acres of a former horse ranch in unincorporated North County. The AES Corp., a global energy company behind the proposal, said the 400-megawatt facility would help California meet its skyrocketing energy needs and address San Diego County’s goals for net zero carbon emissions.
Cross the U.S.-Mexico border often? Here’s how to avoid becoming a ‘blind mule’
More than one million vehicles pass through the San Ysidro Port of Entry each month. Experts say an unknown number of those drivers are unwittingly carrying drugs into the U.S. from Mexico – and some are being arrested for it. “Blind mule” smuggling – where drug traffickers plant drugs...
Mexican drug traffickers target unsuspecting drivers, but Feds do little to warn the public
Kay Anderson moved from San Diego to Rosarito, a Mexican beach town a half-hour south of the border, to retire 16 years ago – and she doesn’t return very often. To her and her neighbors, fellow American retirees, “blind mule” smuggling, or when drug traffickers use unsuspecting border crossers to carry drugs into the U.S. without their knowledge, feels like a distant threat.
He crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with 90 pounds of meth and had no idea. He’s not the only one
Lea este artículo en español. He missed the three alarms that normally wake him up for his early morning weekday shifts at a distribution center in San Diego. He scrambled to leave his home in Tijuana and drove to the San Ysidro Port of Entry to cross into the U.S.
Residents want a new community center in Logan Heights. Here’s why it could take years.
A former library in San Diego’s Logan Heights neighborhood is getting one step closer to a makeover that could convert the beloved building into a multi-use center for residents and schools nearby. The Old Logan Heights Library on South 28th Street has been closed for nearly 15 years, leaving...
‘A death sentence’: Falling through the safety net, one San Diegan faces homelessness again
After spending much of the COVID-19 pandemic living in county-run motels, Arley Adcock received the news he’d been waiting more than a year to hear: He was finally approved to move into his own apartment. He had a housing voucher, a lease for a $2,100-a-month downtown studio apartment, and...
Jacumba migrant encampment reportedly cleared, but Border Patrol blocking access
A makeshift migrant encampment in the Jacumba wilderness is reported to be completely cleared out after an estimated 700 men, women and children gathered for days without food, water or shelter, according to humanitarian aid groups on the ground. But Border Patrol agents and private security guards are blocking access...
CA wants majority of students to be bilingual. How is San Diego Unified doing?
San Diego Unified has a lot of work to do to help meet the state’s goal of making the majority of California students bilingual. State officials want half of California’s K-12 students to be working toward proficiency in at least two languages by 2030, and for every three out of four graduates to be considered bilingual by 2040.
‘This is inhumane’: Hundreds of migrants wait in San Diego County desert, lack food, water, shelter
Cities like San Diego and El Paso have been under close watch as Title 42, a pandemic-era policy that turned away millions of migrants, ended Thursday. But in a less visible part of San Diego County, the change has brought about a humanitarian crisis. As many as 700 migrants are...
San Diego County’s $1B transit agency is under fire again. What to know
A series of damning internal audits at the San Diego Association of Governments released in recent years have brought light to poor policies, improper spending and even resistance from agency leaders. The most recent audit, as inewsource reported this week, showed that auditors find SANDAG’s contracts process concerning enough that...
Internal auditor says SANDAG leaders ‘hindered’ latest contracts review
A new audit reviewing contracts at the San Diego Association of Governments is again raising concerns about the regional planning agency’s leadership, and its in-house watchdog team is accusing management of impeding its work. Internal auditors say SANDAG’s process of awarding contracts is concerning enough that even after their...
New CEO takes helm as El Centro hospital faces ‘devastating’ threat of closure
The El Centro Regional Medical Center has a new CEO, but Imperial County’s largest hospital remains in dire financial straits. Pablo Velez, who previously headed Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, will lead the hospital as it grapples with the possibility of running out of cash in mere months. He will report to UC San Diego Health, which expanded its longstanding relationship with El Centro Regional by taking over operations in February.
New COVID-19 variant Arcturus could grow in San Diego, experts say
Pink eye may be a sign of COVID-19. San Diego County public health experts say XBB.1.16, an emerging offshoot of the Omicron variant which has reportedly been associated with itchy, watery eyes, has a chance to soon take up a larger share of local COVID-19 cases. The new variant —...
San Diego Police officer stages suicide, shoots gun in home, solicits sex workers — but was never disciplined
A San Diego Police officer staged his suicide with fake blood, shot a gun off in his home while his girlfriend was present and solicited sex during his work shifts, including at a murder scene. Officer Cesar Alcantara initially denied any wrongdoing, according to an Internal Affairs report made public...
Over a year into ‘Sexy Streets’ paving initiative, these neighborhoods got done first
More than a year after the mayor of San Diego launched his “Sexy Streets” road-paving initiative, city officials say about half of the 54 miles slated for improvements have been completed or are in progress. Data that inewsource obtained shows just over 9 miles have been paved while...
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