Category: Featured
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Second Opinion: What Does Obamacare Mean For Health Savings Accounts?
Deb Cooperman sells cookware and teaches an occasional cooking class. She works part-time, so she’s opted for a health savings account and a high deductible health insurance policy. She can window-shop on Covered California if she has an HSA? Video by Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego. By Megan Burks Second Opinion is a…
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Burmese Refugees Making San Diego Home
Andrew Rae, board chair for the Karen Organization of San Diego, and April Moo, a Burmese refugee and San Diego City College student, talk with KPBS Evening Edition host Peggy Pico. By Megan Burke and Maureen Cavanaugh Listen to the KPBS Midday Edition radio segment here. April Moo’s parents never talked about their life in…
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How the Next Mayor Plans to Fix Emergency Response Time Disparities
By Liam Dillon San Diego’s three mayoral candidates agree. Disparities in emergency response times across neighborhoods must end. “It is the city’s moral obligation to provide equitable emergency services to every community,” City Councilman Kevin Faulconer says in his neighborhoods plan. Broadly, Faulconer, City Councilman David Alvarez and former Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher agree on the…
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Community Mourns Closing of Urban Greenspace
A nursery on 44th Street near University Avenue has closed despite community support because the operation violated city zoning laws. | Video Credit: Brian Myers By Brian Myers A group of volunteers and patrons of Antonio’s Nursery got together one last time to recall the good times of the short lived micro farm on 44th…