Category: Featured

  • Why the County Will Lose Half Its Health Funds (And Why It Might Not Matter)

    By Megan Burks The state has given San Diego County two options: Take a clean 60 percent cut in health care funding next fiscal year, or negotiate a smaller, more complicated cut. Either way, the region is poised to lose at least half of the state funds it uses to provide medical care to the…

  • Latino Enrollment Lagging On Covered California

    By Kenny Goldberg Nearly 80,000 people have signed up for health insurance on Covered California since Oct. 1, but Latino enrollment at the online health exchange has been dismal. Latinos make up nearly half of California’s 7 million uninsured population. Under Obamacare, many of them are eligible for federal subsidies, or Medi-Cal, which doesn’t charge…

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About the Achievement Gap

    By Mario Koran San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten has a dream. A dream where one day all students will have equitable access to educational opportunities, no matter the color of their skin. Where they will be judged not by the score of their tests, but by what they can contribute to society. But for…

  • Students to Begin Citywide Sidewalk Survey Next Month

    3400 block of Marlborough Avenue in the city of San Diego. | Photo Credit: Joe Austin, courtesy of The Stumblr. By Liam Dillon By the middle of next month, the city of San Diego will unleash two dozen local college students onto its sidewalks. They’re part of a $1 million study to document San Diego’s…

  • Second Opinion: What Does Obamacare Mean for My Paycheck?

    Jeff Schoellerman, a San Diego neuroscientist, is curious if the Affordable Care Act will eventually have an effect on what we pay toward Medicare and disability out of our paychecks. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego. By Megan Burks Second Opinion is a weekly Q-and-A series that answers questions from San…