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Tweet City Heights: Group Seeks Funds to Open Vegan Co-op in City Heights
By Megan Burks Group Seeking Funds to Open Vegan Co-op in City Heights San Diego CityBeat reported this week Mitch Wallis, the co-owner of Hillcrest’s Evolution Fast Food, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a vegan food co-op in City Heights. A food co-op is a grocery store that customers can buy a stake…
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Where Gang-Related Murders Happen in San Diego
By Keegan Kyle The number of murders reported by police each year has generally followed the city’s overall crime patterns, which have been decreasing since the 1990s. With 38 murders last year, San Diego registered far below most major cities. Police reported 89 murders in San Antonio, 116 in Phoenix and 324 in Philadelphia last…
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Map: Middle School Students Grade the Safety of Their Streets
Above, students identify areas surrounding their school they consider to be safe (blue), unsafe (orange), scary (red), beautiful (pink) and ugly (green). Click here to enlarge the map. By Jena Olson The AjA Project runs photography-based educational programs for refugee and at-risk youth in San Diego. AjA ran an after-school workshop at Monroe Clark Middle…
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Deferred Action Records Requests to San Diego Unified Higher Than Expected
By Neiko Will Listen to the radio report here The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program allows immigrants brought here as children to stay in the country for two years, and get a work permit. To be eligible for DACA, applicants must prove they have lived in the United States continuously since their arrival here. Earlier in…
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Behind the Screen: Cybercrimes Against Children
By Erin Timony, Anais Bernard, Oscar Perez, Trevor Seines and Dylan Rohn Agent David Oyos of the Chula Vista Police Department and Assistant U.S. Attorney and Project Safe Childhood Coordinator Allesandra Serano talk with youth filmmakers about child exploitation on the internet. Transcript: David Oyos: The internet has made it really easy for offenders to…