Category: News

  • Tweet City Heights: To Afford Rent, San Diego Families Need to Make $55K

    By Megan Burks To Afford Rent, San Diego Families Need to Make $55K A study from the National Low Income Housing Coalition says that to afford rent for a two bedroom home, San Diegans would need to make $55,280 a year, or earn a wage of $26.58. Heads of households making the minimum wage of…

  • Filner Gearing Up for More Bikes with CicloSDias Event

    Los Angeles hosts community bike rides modeled after Bogoto, Colombia’s ciclovia events. Now San Diego is following their lead. | Photo Courtesy of Flickr By Lisa Halverstadt Mayor Bob Filner wants to make San Diego the bicycling capital of the nation but he admits he’ll need to sell the idea to most residents first. That’s…

  • State Lawmakers Consider Medical Interpretation Bill

    By Megan Burks The meeting itself drove home the necessity of interpretation. Outfitted with headsets receiving signals from several interpreters, residents speaking seven languages met in City Heights Friday to coordinate a campaign to improve access to interpreters at doctors’ offices and hospitals. At the start, members of the Karen (Burmese), Somali, Somali Bantu, Eritrean…

  • Back Together Again: Crawford Students Adjust to Consolidated Campus

    By Kyla Calvert Back Together Again, Aired March 12, 2013 on KPBS Radio [audio:http://speakcityheights.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CRAWFORD.mp3] Ideas about improving public education come and go. Few people know that better than students and staff at Crawford High School in City Heights, which has been reorganized twice in the last eight years. In 2003 San Diego Unified got an…

  • San Diego Latino Film Festival Brings Spotlight on Mexican Cinema

    San Diego Latino Film Festival movie trailers playlist By Beth Accomando Listen to a KPBS Midday Edition interview with festival organizers. The San Diego Latino Film Festival kicks off its 20th season with more than 100 films from around the globe. For its 20th anniversary, the SDLFF will focus on Mexico, the country that provides…