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It’s been a long goodbye for San Diego Hospice, an institution that helped people die with dignity and without pain. Read More »
Author Archives: Joanne Faryon
Apartment developer buys hallowed San Diego Hospice site
The view is spectacular, overlooking all of Mission Valley from atop a ragged hillside that’s in spring bloom. This was once a place people came to die, now it will be home to an apartment complex. Read More »
San Diego Hospice could have been saved
The hospice, considered a pioneering organization in end-of-life care, closed in 2013 amid a Medicare audit that alleged it owed the federal government more than $110 million in false claims. Read More »
ID of man on life support at Coronado facility remains elusive
Officials including medical experts, advocacy groups and members of the Border Patrol and Mexican consulate are still trying to ID a John Doe whose been on life support for 15 years. Read More »
Efforts to identify San Diegan John Doe on life support may pay off
An unlikely alliance of elected officials, border enforcement, the Mexican Consulate and others have banded together to find the true identity of a John Doe on life support. Read More »
More families hope man on life support for 15 years is their lost loved one
He smiles back at a reporter as she smiles and mouths the word “hello.” It’s an expression that belies both his official mental status — he’s believed to be non-responsive — and his circumstance. Read More »
ICE under fire for detaining too few immigrants
With the United States on pace to detain the fewest undocumented immigrants since 2006, a Texas congressman is accusing federal immigration officials of not enforcing the law by failing to fill the country’s 34,000 detention beds. Read More »
U.S. government holding fewer immigrants in detention
The number of immigrants being held in detention centers across the U.S. is the lowest it’s been in nearly a decade, possibly signaling a change in a federal mandate called a "bed quota." Read More »
Opting out of vaccines: blame the internet
The reasons parents in California are choosing not to immunize their kids today is partly due to what they find on the Internet, including a study that incorrectly linked vaccines to autism. Read More »
A man they call Sixty-Six Garage: on life support for 15 years in Coronado
By Joanne Faryon/inewsource They call him Garage for short. His full name is Sixty-Six Garage — after the place the van he was traveling in was taken after it crashed near the Mexican border about 100 miles east of San Diego in June 1999. Or so the story goes. No one knows for sure, but it’s the lore ... Read More »