The Group Chat

It has been three months since the top executive at San Diego Community Power abruptly left her job for reasons that remain unexplained. Karin Burns, who was hired to lead the new organization in April 2022, hasn’t been on the job since a June 18 board meeting called to discuss her performance evaluation. The board didn’t take any official... Read more

I heard from a reader after my story on South Bay Union Superintendent Jose Espinoza dropped last week, and it got me curious: What do the district’s academic outcomes look like before and after he took the top administrative job? I looked into it. Here’s what I found:  Students have made small gains in English and math since Espinoza... Read more

A rule that will allow federal immigration officers to count the use of a wide range of public assistance like CalFresh and Medi-Cal against green card applicants took effect Friday, Sept. 18, despite a multistate lawsuit filed Monday challenging it.  The Trump administration’s policy, referred to as public charge, gives immigration officers... Read more

Candidates from left to right: Bruce Ehlers, Rimga Viskanta, Arielle Golden, Ed Sprague, Brad Lefkowits and Marco San Antonio. (Charlie Neuman for inewsource). The two mayoral and four City Council candidates answered questions about housing and homelessness, e-bikes, climate change and more in a packed room on Thursday night. A quarter of... Read more

County supervisors on Tuesday voted 4-1 to expand investigative capacity for the office dedicated to wage theft enforcement and recovery. San Diego County, through its Office of Labor Standards and Enforcement, has for years played a big role in investigating allegations of unpaid wages, supporting workers and coordinating enforcement. County... Read more

The Encinitas City Council voted 4-1 to direct city staff to look into a red-light camera program for the city. The City Council will host a special meeting and look at the staff’s report on possible locations, details on how the data is stored and the costs. Mayor Bruce Ehlers said the red-light cameras could be part of the solution to the... Read more

Otay Mesa Detention Center has again failed to report a suspected tuberculosis case to county health officials for several weeks — well past the 24 hours required by state law.  San Diego County issued a notice of noncompliance to the federal facility and warned its private operators from the company CoreCivic that the county could take... Read more

Hundreds of people shut down traffic at the corner of Fairmount and University avenues in the heart of San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood Wednesday night in what was billed as an emergency community rally denouncing inhumane federal arrests in recent days.Several community leaders asked for support surrounded by politicians including Mayor... Read more

Check out our Instagram reel from this week on my latest reporting into families with young children who have spent days to weeks in temporary holding centers in San Diego.

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Two cameras, one table and a rotary phone recorder were all we needed to bring “The Story Line” to life. The launch of our newest video series branches out of a project by our San Diego Documenters and investigative reporter Greg Moran looking into Balboa Park’s billion-dollar problem. As part of that work, we sought to find out what makes... Read more