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Flawed applications cost other San Diego County school districts homeless funding
San Diego Unified wasn’t the only San Diego County school district this year to lose out on thousands of dollars in funding to help homeless students because of a flawed grant application. Read More »
The Weekender for July 7, 2018
A weekly roundup for July 2 - July 6, including stats on fireworks-related fires in California and the vote tally of two San Diego City Council races. Read More »
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Our Awards Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Audio Business/Consumer Reporting First place Brad Racino Developer, fishermen reach deal to help save San Diego’s storied fishing industry Audio Investigative/Enterprise First place Brad Racino Security gaps at San Diego shipyards put billion-dollar Navy warships at risk Video Investigative/Enterprise First place Brad Racino Security lapses found at San Diego shipyards despite Navy ... Read More »
Binational experts press for air quality monitoring at border
Air quality experts from the United States and Mexico came together recently on the San Diego State University campus to bring a sense of urgency to the challenges of monitoring air pollution along the border. The discussion, which involved professors from SDSU and the University of California San Diego, as well as educators at universities in Tijuana and Mexicali, covered ... 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 »
Mapping The Vote: How two San Diego City Council incumbents lost
For the first time since 1991, San Diego voters on Tuesday ousted incumbent council members seeking re-election. Read More »
Controversial bonds popular again at San Diego County schools
As capital appreciation bonds make a resurgence under new state rules, low growth rates present a risk for local school districts that want to borrow money. Read More »
Tough to get data from San Diego’s open data initiative
More than a year and a half after San Diego launched its open data initiative, it's not clear if San Diegans will ever get an accounting of all the city's data. Read More »
The Weekender for August 4, 2018
Here's a roundup of everything we worked on this week, including a San Diego business transparency measure and Mello-Roos tax map. Read More »
San Diego City Council falling short on goal to house the homeless
It doesn’t appear San Diego city leaders will come close to meeting the homeless housing goal by the January 2021 deadline. Read More »
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City auditor wants Mello-Roos tax bills checked for accuracy
The audit, prompted by an inewsource investigation last year, found problems with the way the city records square footage on building permits, ranging from typos to incomplete information. Read More »
San Diego Attorney’s Environmental Lawsuits Could Be Tainted By Conflict Of Interest — with links
The wife of lawyer Cory Briggs, who sues local, state and federal government agencies over environmental violations, held a key position in a La Mesa company on the other side of his litigation. The potential conflict of interest and its effect on the taxpayers has not been publicly known. Read More »
San Diego Attorney’s Environmental Lawsuits Could Be Tainted By Conflict Of Interest
The wife of lawyer Cory Briggs, who sues local, state and federal government agencies over environmental violations, held a key position in a La Mesa company on the other side of his litigation. The potential conflict of interest and its effect on the taxpayers has not been publicly known. Read More »
Years of staffing cutbacks left San Diego nursing homes in peril during pandemic
The struggle to control COVID-19 in San Diego's nursing homes has been exacerbated by years of staffing cuts. Read More »
Deadly Patrols: The one who lived to tell
Castro claims the agent, Abel Canales, beat him, hurled insults at him and then shot him in the side before riding away. He says he waited in the desert for an hour and a half, bleeding through his clothes, thinking about his children and preparing himself for death. Read More »
Coronavirus deaths: San Diego families grapple with mistakes, slow testing and poor care
In San Diego County, more than 400 lives have been lost to the new coronavirus since the pandemic struck the region in March. Read More »
Deadly Patrols: Challenges to Prosecution
County Attorney Edward Rheinheimer, who’s practiced here for 20 years, has seen more than half a dozen cases involving border patrol agents fatally shooting people. He’s taken only one of them to trial. Twice it ended in a hung jury. Read More »
Health experts, residents worry South County not ready for reopening as COVID-19 worsens
inewsource interviewed San Diegans directly affected by COVID-19 to piece together a picture of the harrowing tradeoff health officials must make: appease struggling citizens who are pushing for a return to normal or guard against an influx of cases in southern San Diego County that could devastate those communities. Read More »