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With the election Tuesday, groups are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in San Diego County’s most competitive races. Read More »
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Political Action Committee spending in San Diego County 2018 election
Scroll through or search the table to see how much money is being spent by outside groups in three heated San Diego County races. Read More »
Search Political Action Committe Spending in the Diego County 2018 Election
Here's a breakdown of how much outside groups are spending in three heated county races: 49th Congressional, DA and 4th District Board of Supervisors. Read More »
Outside money supporting DA candidate Jones-Wright tops $1.5 million
The outside money spent by pro-Genevieve Jones-Wright PACs in the San Diego County district attorney’s race has reached $1.5 million. Read More »
Political Action Committee spending in 2018 San Diego District Attorney race
Scroll through or search the table to see the committees spending money in the race between Geneviéve Jones-Wright and Summer Stephan. Read More »
Competing Mission Valley stadium measures gear up for expensive campaign fight
San Diego voters should brace themselves for a high-dollar contest this November when they’ll be asked to decide between two competing stadium measures to transform prime city-owned real estate in Mission Valley. It’s six months before that election, and three campaign committees have already raised more than $7.4 million to spend on the ballot measures. The SoccerCity proposal calls for ... Read More »
San Diego County homeless student count reaches record high. But how real are the numbers?
New data show more than 23,800 students were homeless last year in San Diego County — a record high and a 4.7 percent increase over the previous year. But a county Office of Education official acknowledges the homeless student count could be wrong. It all depends on who does the counting and how they interpret federal guidelines for calculating who ... Read More »
By the numbers: San Diego County’s most diverse neighborhoods
When two residents in the southeastern San Diego neighborhood of Encanto meet, there’s a 71 percent chance they’re of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. In the coastal community of Cardiff, there’s only a 25 percent chance of that happening. That makes Encanto one of the most diverse neighborhoods in San Diego County, and Cardiff one of the least diverse. Those ... Read More »
San Diego County’s income inequality increases despite falling unemployment rate
Income inequality in San Diego County continues to increase, despite some of the lowest unemployment numbers since the late 1990s. That finding comes from an inewsource analysis of the Gini index, which is tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau and measures how evenly incomes are distributed in an area. The index is a number between zero and one, with a ... Read More »
Remedial classes: A community college ‘segregation machine’
Hundreds of thousands of community college students are placed in remedial classes every year, and few get past them, especially black and Latino students. Read More »