Category: Featured

  • Familiar Faces To Represent New District … For Now

    By Marissa Cabrera It’s been unclear who will be leading San Diego’s new 9th Council District until now. The City’s Redistricting Committee has been working to draw up new boundaries for the city’s council districts for the past couple of months. Those lines get redrawn every 10 years to better reflect population changes according to the census.…

  • Scrambling to Ensure a Voice for Ninth District

    By Adrian Florido   For weeks, San Diego’s Redistricting Commission has been winding down its work to draw new City Council boundaries. When it’s done, the city will have a new 9th District likely to include City Heights, Kensington-Talmadge and the College Area. But as the commission has come closer to finalizing its map, city…

  • Tweet City Heights: Nation’s Prison Pipeline, People Take Back Media

    By Megan Burks Giving Dropouts a Face and a Name This week, Twitter was full links to a National Public Radio series on the nation’s dropout crisis. According to NPR, 1 million students stop attending school each year, costing the nation at least $319 billion annually. The personal cost is steeper, contributing to a cycle…

  • Locals Discuss Famine in Somalia

    By Megan Burke and Marueen Cavanaugh A 10-ton shipment of peanut-butter based nutritional paste landed today in Mogadishu for famine-victims in Somalia. Thousands of starving Somalis escape from their lawless country every day in an effort to get help at refugee camps in neighboring Kenya. It’s estimated at least 18-thousand children inside Somalia are suffering…

  • Report: 40 Americans Have Trained and Fought With Al Shabaab

    By Amita Sharma A new congressional report says an Al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia has recruited more than 40 Americans. Of the more than three dozen Americans believed to be training or fighting with Al Shabaab in Somalia, 15 have died, according to the House Homeland Security Committee’s report. At least three of the Americans died in…