Category: Featured
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Healthy Eating Benefits Waistline And Wallets For Low-Income Families
By Peggy Pico The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program provides low-income families who qualify with food vouchers. Those vouchers will soon have double value when used to buy healthy foods, like fresh fruit and vegetables. The incentive idea comes from the California Endowment, a statewide health foundation. Tony Iton, M.D., J.D., is senior vice…
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Minority Groups Speak Out Against County’s Redistricting Plan
By Alison St John The redistricting map proposed by the county redistricting committee lumps City Heights in with La Jolla. The ACLU says it fails to create a district with a Latino majority. The map created by the ACLU and Latino and Africa American groups has City Heights with Lemon Grove and Spring Valley.…
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Tweet City Heights: Feral Dogs, Fried Brain Cells and Free Lunch
By Megan Burks While we’re out researching and writing full-length features, 140 characters can go a long way in helping us keep readers up-to-date. But some tweets deserve more than that. That’s why I’m beginning a weekly feature here on SpeakCityHeights.org called Tweet City Heights. Each Friday, I’ll bring you the week’s Twitter chatter as…
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Photo Feature: Your Neighbor, the Refugee, Celebrated
Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Sam Hodgson I had the honor of presenting a photo essay at the Museum of Photographic Arts to help commemorate World Refugee Day Sunday. I presented images from the project we completed last year about Har Sin, a refugee from Burma who is deaf and learning formal communication for the…
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Citizens’ Commission on State Redistricting Gets An Earful
By Alison St John Residents from Imperial Valley to the coast turned out to a public hearing in San Diego Monday night on state and congressional redistricting. Some drove almost two hours to present their case to the Redistricting Commission. It was the last opportunity to give the 14 member Citizens’ Commission oral testimony before the…