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Lindsay Hartmann is an active 38-year-old who lives with her Marine husband and two toddler sons. So when she started having chest pains on March 18, she knew something was off. Read More »
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Budget fears mount for local governments and schools facing massive COVID-19 unknowns
Leaders of local governments and school districts across San Diego County and the state are bracing for budget challenges as coronavirus takes hold. Read More »
San Diego Convention Center expansion measure leaves many details unknown
Measure C has been pitched to San Diego voters as a key to reducing homelessness, a boost for local roads and a necessary investment in the downtown convention center to maintain valuable tourism dollars. Read More »
Millions in gas tax funds for San Diego area roads sit unspent
A key part of the state’s 2017 gas tax increase aimed at fixing local roads has generated more than $125 million for the San Diego region, but most of the money remains unspent. Records obtained by inewsource show only about $50 million of the gas tax money from the Local Streets and Roads program had been spent through the middle ... Read More »
San Diego’s homeless tied to nearly 13% of all fire dispatch calls
Fire incident calls tied to homelessness are on the rise in San Diego. Last year, they made up nearly 13% of all fire-related calls. Read More »
Fire risks tied to homelessness in San Diego’s canyons leave residents on edge
Brush and overgrown vegetation have long created fire risks in San Diego and at all times of the year, but the situation has been exacerbated as the city grapples with a large, unsheltered homeless population, some of whom use the canyons as their home. Read More »
A San Diego street repaved — big hole not included
Drivers heading north or south on Brant Street in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood could see something wasn’t right. The newly paved road, a smooth black surface free of the city’s notorious potholes and cracks, had a Jeep-sized hole. Read More »
California courts rule in favor of inewsource and San Diego State in lawsuit that tested free speech laws
The California Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit challenging inewsource’s lease with San Diego State University Read More »
San Diego voters promised billions in infrastructure fixes, but money running dry
Three years after San Diego voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to boost money to fix roads, sidewalks and storm drains, funding is falling far short of projections and is expected to run out by the summer of 2022. When voters approved the Rebuild San Diego measure by a 30-point margin in June 2016, they did it on promises from ... Read More »