Year: 2012
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Tweet City Heights: State Suspends Some Open Meeting Requirements
By Megan Burks State Suspends Some Open Meeting Requirements In an effort to save $96 million, state legislators suspended funding for certain provisions of the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law. Under the law, public entities must notify their constituents of meetings 72 hours in advance and disclose decisions made in closed sessions. The…
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Teens and Safety Series: Undercover Police Officers in Colina Park
By Brian Myers In the fourth video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students continue to shed light on the broken relationship between mid-city police and area teenagers. Below, they question why undercover police officers are sent to Colina Park, a sprawling neighborhood park near Crawford…
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Extra Swim Class at YMCA Becomes Gender, Immigrant Issue
Dr. Adina Batnitzky, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of San Diego, addresses reader comments that call a women-only swim class at the Copley YMCA discrimination and wrongheaded. By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh, Peggy Pico and Claire Trageser Click here to listen to an extended interview with Adina Batnitzky, Andrea Freeman and Megan…
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Shorter School Year Could Hit Immigrant Families Hardest
By Will Carless If anyone in San Diego knows the value of education, it’s Fatima Abdelrahman. Five years ago, Abdelrahman arrived in City Heights from Darfur, Sudan, with her five children. None of her kids had ever been to school before arriving in the United States. At first, her children struggled. They sat in classes…