Year: 2012

  • Making it Easier to Walk and Roll in City Heights

    Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Time-lapse: Boundary Street to 54th Street in Three Minutes | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego Haga click aquí para leerlo la en Español Earlier this month, a group assembled by the City Heights Community Development Corporation’s Built Environment Team…

  • Tweet City Heights: Affordable Care Act Turns Two

    By Megan Burks Affordable Care Act Turns Two Today marks the second anniversary of the federal health reform law known as the Affordable Care Act. To celebrate, advocates and the media are taking a look at how far the law has come. The milestone also brings the law’s first major test—the Supreme Court will examine…

  • Graphic: San Diego’s Curfew Push

    San Diego police have arrested hundreds of kids in recent years by conducting regular curfew sweeps in the city’s urban core. The sweeps have been widely publicized since their inception. What hasn’t received much attention is the decreased use of curfew enforcement almost everywhere else. While arrests have climbed in San Diego, they’ve fallen substantially…

  • A Brief History of Mid-City Transit

    By Brian Myers   We asked the candidates for District 9 Monday how they would work to improve transit options for City Heights residents. Transit riders and community advocates say the neighborhood hasn’t gotten a fair shake from transportation authorities, who sliced the community in two with Interstate 15 in the 1990s. Above, Maria Cortez…

  • Is Prison Realignment Working?

    Above: Margaret Dooley-Sammuli from the ACLU and Chief Mack Jenkins, head of the San Diego County Probation Department, speak to Evening Edition about the realignment program. By Beth Accomando, Adriana Alcaraz and Erik Anderson It’s been six months since California started shifting low-level prison inmates and funding from state to county jails, and a new report from the…