Category: Featured

  • City Heights Residents Celebrate Completion of Neighborhood Renovation

    San Diego city leaders and community members celebrate the completion of 25 home rehabilitations in City Heights, September 24, 2013. By Susan Murphy San Diego city leaders and community members on Tuesday celebrated the completion of 25 home rehabilitations in City Heights. Homeowner Francisca Ortega smiled ear to ear as she showed off her new…

  • Micro-Park Aims to Make Big Difference

    Video Credit: Brian Myers By Brian Myers A “parklet” sprouted on Friday in front of Super Cocina in City Heights Friday. The parking-spots-turned-gathering-spot was hosted by the City Heights Community Development Corporation, Bikes del Pueblo and the Super Cocina restaurant as part of Park(ing) Day, an international effort to highlight the benefits of adding more…

  • Second Opinion: I’m Nearing Medicare Age. Can I Get Gap Coverage?

    Linda Johnson is a microbiologist set to retire in about a month. She’s concerned she won’t be able to find an affordable health plan to cover her in the six months before she’s eligible for Medicare. Video by Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego. By Megan Burks Second Opinion is a weekly Q-and-A series…

  • City Heights Pleads Its Bike-Share Case

    Angeli Hernandez uses stickers to show DecoBike where she’d like to see bike-share stations in her neighborhood. She and her peers on the Mid-City CAN Youth Council have been speaking out about the need for better transit in City Heights. | Photo Credit: Bianca Bruno By Bianca Bruno City officials and DecoBike, a private Miami-based…

  • Obamacare For Californians: It’s Not That Confusing. We Promise.

    By Megan Burks I’ve been answering your questions about the Affordable Care Act with my series “Second Opinion” for three months now. You’ve thrown me some tough questions, sending me down rabbit holes burrowed by the Internal Revenue Service and the Congressional Research Service, and putting me in touch with smart people from local insurance…