Category: Featured

  • Tweet City Heights: Tragedy Strengthens Police-Community Bond

    By Megan Burks Residents Line Route to Slain Officer’s Memorial Hundreds of law enforcement personnel met this morning at Qualcomm Stadium for a procession to the Rock Church in Point Loma, where they honored San Diego Police Officer Jeremy Henwood. Henwood, a captain in the Marine Corps Reserve and officer in the Mid-City Division, was…

  • Police Seek To Engage City Heights

    By Katie Orr Flags fly at half staff in Colina Del Sol in honor of San Diego police officer Jeremy Henwood, who was killed in City Heights Sunday. | Photo Credit: Katie Orr   Officer Henwood served with the police department’s mid city division. It includes the neighborhood of City Heights, where Henwood was gunned…

  • Ninth District Will Not Be Disenfranchised, City Attorney Says

    By Adrian Florido If you live within the proposed boundaries of San Diego’s new 9th City Council District, don’t worry. City Attorney Jan Goldsmith has said you won’t have to wait a year to get representation on the City Council. Last week I wrote about confusion stemming from new City Council district boundaries that the…

  • City Heights Farmers Market Tops Food Stamp Collection Rate

    By Ruxandra Guidi Starting next year, all California farmers markets will accept food stamps. | Photo Credit: Ruxandra Guidi   Lillian Tunda came from the Congo in 2000 as a refugee with her husband and four kids. As part of their resettlement process, they were given food stamps, and placed in a low-income apartment complex…

  • Confusion Grows Over 9th District Representation

    By Adrian Florido A member of the committee that recommended recent City Charter changes adding a ninth City Council district says city officials are misinterpreting the charter as they try to phase in that new district. Adrian Kwiatkowski, one of 15 who sat on Mayor Jerry Sanders’ Charter Review Committee, said the committee did not…