Category: Featured

  • Garden Teaches Diet for Healthy Minds

    By Erin Timoney and John Field On the weekend of July 6, youth from throughout California gathered at the Media Arts Center San Diego for a journalism boot camp hosted by The California Endowment. With the guidance of adult mentors, the youth produced blog, radio and video reports. This is one of those reports. As obesity…

  • Federal Subsidies Support Junk Food Instead of Fresh Food, Report Says

    By Diana Crofts-Pelayo Citing the obesity epidemic among America’s children, a California consumer group says federal subsidies support junk food instead of fresh food. CALPIRG’s report is called “Apples to Twinkies 2012” because it says producers of corn syrup are financially favored over apple growers. Twinkies and apples were used as props at a San Diego press…

  • The Big Flaw in the Chief’s Crime Warning

    For years, San Diego police have been touting falling crime rates alongside their efforts to become a more efficient agency. But now, after a few months of rising crime, police say they need more money or crime will spike. It’s no small request from the cash-strapped city of San Diego. Police want an additional $66 million…

  • Police Chief: Crime Will Rise

    Crime is rising and will continue to climb unless the Police Department gets more funding, San Diego’s top cop warned a City Council committee Wednesday. The comments came as the committee considered a $66 million plan to rebuild the Police Department over the next five years. Police want to hire more cops and civilian staff, buy new…

  • Cops: Proactive Policing’s Taken a Hit

    By Keegan Kyle A year ago, the San Diego Police Department’s top brass pushed against an article I wrote about the city’s new policing strategy. I found the department had gradually shifted away from the proactive, problem-solving concept that gained international acclaim in the 1990s. San Diego’s cops were spending much more time reacting to crimes…