Category: Featured

  • For Inner-City Kids, Time Spent Outdoors Builds Confidence

    Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks As a group of kids scrambled like lizards up a towering rock formation, Shantell Lacy stayed back in the shade. She swatted flying ants from a pile of backpacks and talked about her son, Jahvi. “I’m scared of heights, but he’s a daredevil.…

  • Teachers Union Deal Explained

    By Will Carless In the latest edition of San Diego Explained, NBC 7 San Diego’s Catherine Garcia and I tackle the tentative agreement between the San Diego Unified School District and the San Diego Education Association, the union that represents local teachers. The deal, which was ratified overwhelmingly by teachers Wednesday, saves the jobs of more than 1,000 teachers.…

  • YMCA Offers Women-Only Swim Hours For Muslim Women

    With summer now in full swing, San Diegans are heading to beaches and pools to cool off and get exercise. But for East-African women in City Heights, taking a dip isn’t so easy. Many of them are Muslim and can’t swim in co-ed pools. But that’s changing with a new YMCA class that’s getting Muslim…

  • Teens and Safety Series: What Time of Day is City Heights Safest?

    By Brian Myers In the second video of an eight part series on teens and safety in City Heights, Crawford High School students discuss the time of day they feel most safe in City Heights. An analysis by Speak City Heights partner Voice of San Diego found that “daytime” might not be the easy answer.…

  • Caution Advised as Dust Settles on Obama’s Immigration Policy

    By Adrian Florido Hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrant stand to benefit from President Obama’s recent announcement that the government will stop deporting many young people brought to the U.S. as children, and offer them work permits. But now the dust is settling on the president’s policy, and immigration attorneys are warning people hoping…