Category: Featured

  • ‘Get Help, Not Guns’: Teen Producers PSA

    As the nation cobbles together legislation to prevent tragedies like the Newtown shooting, youth in California are weighing in. Students throughout the state contributed to a video produced and circulated by The California Endowment that “demands a plan” to bring more social and mental health services to schools in an effort to solve gun violence.…

  • Tweet City Heights: Temporary Park Suggested for Stalled Redevelopment Site

    By Megan Burks A Quick Solution for Stalled Redevelopment Properties KPBS took a look this week at a plan by local architecture students to utilize vacant lots where redevelopment plans have stalled. The NewSchool of Architecture students designed a temporary park that could be moved when permanent projects move forward. They’d simply lease the land…

  • Why Lights Out Is the Norm in Some SD Neighborhoods

    By Liam Dillon Frank Gomez travels around San Diego every day as a building inspector, admiring the good homes in good neighborhoods, often in the city’s northern half. When day turns to evening, Gomez returns to his house in Encanto, where the difference between his neighborhood and others can feel like, well, night and day.…

  • Soda Tax Has Some Fizz in Calif. Senate

    By Kenny Goldberg A measure aimed at reducing the epidemic of childhood obesity is making its way through the California state Senate. The bill would impose a penny-per-ounce tax on sodas and other sugary drinks. Milk products and beverages containing more than 50 percent juice would be exempt. Supporters of the tax, authored by state…

  • ‘Still Some Really Good Opportunities’ in City Heights: Photo Essay

    By Jena Olson Students in The AjA Project have been reflecting on the positive and negative sides to socializing in City Heights as a teenager. One student, Michael, 16, is picking up that narrative with two images: one that represents a negative side and one that represents a positive side. “Something that I would like…