Year: 2012

  • A School Board Candidate Scorecard

    By Will Carless We’re two weeks out from the primary elections, and you might not have paid much attention to who’s running for a seat on the San Diego Unified School District board of trustees. So, you should take a few minutes now to get schooled. With city schools facing an unprecedented financial crisis, the makeup…

  • Tweet City Heights: City Earmarks Funds for Skatepark

    By Megan Burks City Earmarks $850,000 for Mid-City Skatepark Members of the Mid-City Skatepark Advocacy Group and Mid-City CAN Youth Council gathered at a budget hearing Monday to tell City Council why they need a skatepark. According to Fox 5 San Diego, $850,000 has been set aside for a City Heights skatepark already. That allocation…

  • City Heights, Kensington and Their Surrounding Environs: Explained

    By Andrew Donohue The City Council’s Ninth District has four distinctive groups of neighborhoods. There’s City Heights, Kensington/Talmadge, the College Area around San Diego State and three southeastern San Diego neighborhoods — Mount Hope, Southcrest and Mountain View. They all have distinct needs and desires. And for the first time, they’re grouped together in the…

  • Summer Job Fair Aims to Keep Teens Busy (and Safe) This Summer

    By Brian Myers Hundreds of youth, young adults and their parents attended an exhibition of local employers and social service organizations April 28. The inaugural City Heights Youth Resource and Job Fair, held at the Mid City Gymnasium, was hosted by the Collaboration to Keep City Heights Youth Safe. The collaboration is a network of…

  • It Starts With Us: San Diego Youth Call for Equality at Trayvon Martin Vigil

    By Erin Timony, Anais Bernard, Oscar Perez, Trevor Seines and Dylan Rohn San Diegans of all ages and backgrounds gathered at Balboa Park March 26 to honor Trayvon Martin. The unarmed Florida teen was shot and killed Feb. 26 by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who said he acted in self defense. At the…