Category: Featured
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Advocates See Room For Improvement In San Diego’s ‘Placemaking’ Program

San Diego City Council members last year approved a new placemaking program meant to encourage small-scale community beautification projects. Advocates say the program is an improvement, but that it’s still too bureaucratic.
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Streets To Close Down In Normal Heights And City Heights For CicloSDias

People are encouraged to take part in CicloSDias, an open-street, car-free celebration of cycling and community.
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Public Support of San Diego Promise Gives Adult Students A Second Chance

San Diego Community College District launches it’s first ever day of giving, to expand the San Diego Promise program to more students.
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Police Investigating Possible Hate Crime After Teenage Syrian Refugee Beaten On Trolley

Detectives are reviewing video footage that corroborates a teenage Syrian refugee’s report of being attacked on a San Diego trolley by a man shouting epithets about the victim’s ethnicity, a police spokesman said Thursday.
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San Diego City Heights Refugee Youth Harvest Plants, Job Skills

A program is giving refugee, immigrant, and low-income youth from City Heights job training by teaching them how to farm. But the real goal is to make them hireable.
