Year: 2012
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Restoring a Canyon and Creek, With Some Help From the Neighbors
By Adrian Florido John Stewart’s house is perched at the edge of Radio Canyon. From his backyard he looks out over a lush, gaping chasm that separates his southeastern San Diego neighborhood of Emerald Hills from the Encanto neighborhood. He’s lived there since 1961, so he’s watched the canyon evolve. “A lot of people used…
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Sex Ed After Hours: CORE Brings Condoms and Hip Hop to Hoover
Video Credit: Brian Myers and Edgar Montejano, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks In a departure from typical school-hall etiquette, Hoover High School students were encouraged to shout out slang and swear words for sex and reproductive organs on Feb. 8. Theresa Fox, a sex education speaker and spoken word artist, spat out…
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Tweet City Heights: The President’s Budget on Immigration and Refugees
By Megan Burks The President’s Budget on Immigration and Refugees President Obama released his 2013 budget proposal this week. It includes several changes for departments handling immigration enforcement and refugee assistance. Michael E. Hill, an immigration reporter on Capitol Hill, laid out the details this week. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would see a 4 percent cut…
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‘Black Girls Run’ Act as Exercise Ambassadors
and Megan Burks In San Diego County, 65 percent of African American women are overweight or obese, according to Lakeysha Sowunmi of the Network for a Healthy California. That’s in part because of poor nutrition–African Americans eat 35 percent more fried foods than any other ethnicity, Sowunmi said. But another factor is often overlooked. Many…
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Getting to Know School Board Candidate Bill Ponder
I’m gradually getting to know the two candidates for the school board seat that will be vacated in June by outgoing trustee Shelia Jackson. As I get to know them, I plan to share what I learn. Every week or two, I’ll be posting a new interview with the two candidates, Bill Ponder and Gerald Brown. That…