Year: 2015
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Syrians Could Soon Be Next Refugee Group to Call San Diego Home
A line of Syrian refugee women, some carrying children, cross into Jordan from southern Syria. The outflow this year has been staggering. | Photo Credit: UN Refugee Agency By Megan Burks The U.S. State Department announced this week it will take in up to 8,000 Syrian refugees next year, and many of them could settle…
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What’s That Lot: Transit Riders See Possibilities in Two City Heights Spaces
There are 57 million square miles of land on earth, including the 4,206 square miles of San Diego County. Even as our population grows, spaces in the midst of our concrete jungle lay strangely fallow. This is an occasional series to explore those mysteriously unused or seemingly untended bits of land. What’s that lot? We’re…
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San Diego Police Academy Class Sees Increased Diversity
By Claire Trageser The next San Diego Police Department Academy class will be 65 percent minorities and women, making it more diverse than the last six academy classes in 2014 and 2015. One of the recommendations a federal audit in March handed down to the police department was toboost its diversity to better serve residents.…
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Ocean Discovery Institute’s Living Lab Now Has Full Funding
By Megan Burks The Ocean Discovery Institute announced Saturday it met its $15 million goal to build a science facility in City Heights. The center will have three laboratories, a scientist in residence, a community kitchen and garden. It will sit at the entrance of Manzanita Canyon, where the Ocean Discovery Institute has been teaching…