Year: 2012

  • Tweet City Heights: Students Raise Thousands for Cancer Research

    By Megan Burks Latinos Worse Off Than African Americans When It Comes to Health Coverage A recent poll by National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health found Latinos are most likely to go without health insurance or grapple with patchy coverage plans. The study results debunk a…

  • [Video] Curfew Sweeps Explained

    By Keegan Kyle   As San Diego police have cut staffing and eliminated specialized units in recent years, they’ve funneled more resources toward enforcing the city’s 10 p.m. curfew on kids. Today, police regularly swarm inner-city neighborhoods, arrest minors out past curfew and connect families with social services. These operations, conducted in the City Heights,…

  • City Heights Elementary School Could Lose All But Two Teachers

    By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh, Joanne Faryon and Claire Trageser At Fay Elementary School, 27 out of 29 teachers received layoff notices this year. This means the elementary school in the City Heights neighborhood could start the year with almost all new teachers. Eileen Moreno, principal of the school, said more schools in San Diego’s low-income…

  • City Heights Looks for More Places to ‘Park’

    There’s an empty lot near the corner of Home Avenue and Euclid that lies along a creek bed. It’s covered with wild yellow flowers and tall grasses. One weekday morning City Council president Tony Young joined me at the spot to tell me what this vacant lot is going to become. “And what you’re going…

  • Foster Leads in Schools Race

    By Will Carless Bill Ponder, a retired university administrator, squared off against Marne Foster, a community college administrator and instructor. Both are political newbies, and neither raised much money or ran much of a campaign. Photo Credit: Will Carless And why would they? Both were guaranteed a place on November’s ballot. As such, Tuesday’s vote…