Year: 2014

  • Latino Enrollment in Covered California Health Plans Picks Up

    Photo Credit: Tarryn Mento, KPBS By Kenny Goldberg The latest enrollment numbers from Covered California show more than 625,000 people have signed up for new health insurance plans. Between Oct. 1 and mid-December, Latinos represented only 5 percent of total enrollment. Things changed in the last two weeks of the year. By the end of…

  • Police to Overhaul Racial Profiling Data Effort

    By Liam Dillon San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne said Tuesday that the department will overhaul its racial data collection policies on traffic stops. “We’ve got to build that system almost from scratch,” Lansdowne told KPBS’s “Midday Edition.” Listen to it here. Lansdowne said he’s meeting with local civil rights and neighborhood advocacy organizations to…

  • New Report Finds 10 Percent of San Diegans Live in Poverty

    By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico It has been 50 years since the U.S. government declared a “War On Poverty,” but it is still a serious problem across the nation and in San Diego. A new report by the San Diego Association of Governments used Census data to assess poverty levels in the…

  • Police: ‘We Do Our Very Best to Reach Everyone’

    Police Chief William Lansdowne let a key check on racial profiling slide because he hadn’t heard it’s a concern in the community. Here’s what the department does to open lines of communication, and why some voices aren’t being heard. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Assistant Police Chief…

  • Community Meetings On Best Use of New School Funds Begin

    By Kyla Calvert For the first time in years, budget planning for San Diego Unified School District could include adding programs and services instead of cutting them. When Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled his proposal for next year’s budget, it included using unexpected revenues to pay back the state’s $6.1 billion debt to public schools. It…