Category: News
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Curb Ramps to Mangled Sidewalks ‘a Path to Nowhere’
Randy Van Vleck finds out what it’s like to travel over the city’s sidewalks in a wheelchair during a 2012 walk and roll audit of University Avenue. The city is making improvements by adding curb ramps, but wheelchair users say sidewalk maintenance would help, too. | Photo Credit: Brian Myers By Liam Dillon You might…
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Hulu Drama Targets Latino Teen Audience
The writers of “East Los High” draw on a common coming-of-age theme – sex – during their first episode, which centers on a high school dance. But they also explore dialogues common in the predominantly Latino neighborhoods of East Los Angeles for programming that’s more reflective of the growing Latino television audience. | Photo Courtesy…
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Bill Would Limit Suspensions for ‘Willful Defiance’
By Kyla Calvert Students can be suspended in California for 24 types of offenses. They include causing physical harm, bullying and theft. But 48 percent of the state’s suspensions during the 2011-12 school year were willful defiance or disruption. The state Assembly has passed a bill that would limit the use of willful defiance suspension…
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Students Map a Future for Themselves and Their Neighborhood
What if you could tell city planners exactly what you would like to see fixed on the streets you walk and drive on every day? A project in City Heights is giving residents the opportunity to do just that. And KPBS education reporter Kyla Calvert takes us to a classroom where high school students are…
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City Considers Taxi Industry Overhaul Amid Reports Of Low Wages, Unsafe Cabs
By Megan Burks and Claire Trageser The city will not renew its five-year contract with the Metropolitan Transit System for regulating San Diego’s taxi industry when it expires in June, but will extend it by one year to study other options. The decision comes as drivers ramp up complaints about poor working conditions, driver and…