Year: 2011

  • County Improves Health Care for the Very Poor, But Stops There

    Under a new county program, the poorest of San Diego’s residents will be able to come to health clinics like this one being built on El Cajon Boulevard for regular checkups, not just for emergency care. | Photo Courtesy of City Heights Life By Adrian Florido This year, San Diego County accepted $50 million from…

  • Call This Bike Advocate a Spokes-woman

    Samantha Ollinger recently quit her job as an accountant to focus full-time on advocating for bicyclists in San Diego. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido In 2008, Samantha Ollinger and her husband mounted their bicycles in Philadelphia and pushed off toward a new home in San Diego. They pedaled about 2,000 miles before…

  • Tweet City Heights: Catching Up on San Diego Schools Trouble

    By Megan Burks ‘Schools on the Brink’ Special to Air Next Week Speak City Heights partner voiceofsandiego.org and NBC7 San Diego will air a weeklong special called “Schools on the Brink” starting Monday at 6 p.m. on NBC7. The series will trace the San Diego Unified School District’s financial troubles as it flirts with insolvency.…

  • Community Braces for Prison Realignment

    The Public Safety Realignment Act will transfer responsibility for 2,000 parolees to the County Probation Department. It will also keep some new offenders from going to state prison, placing them in county jail or under house arrest instead. Residents worry the shift will impact the safety of their streets. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media…

  • A Refugee’s Silent Journey, Revisited

    At a coffee shop in Mission Valley, Har Sin, a 25-year-old refugee from Burma, practices his sign language with friends. Har Sin, who is deaf, had no way to formally communicate before coming to the United States in 2008. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido The young man from Burma stepped onto the…