Category: News
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Tweet City Heights: City Responds to Fatal Accident With Improved Bike Lane
By Megan Burks City Responds to Fatal Accident With Improved Bike Lane A neon-green bike lane went in on Montezuma Road this month in response to a fatal bike accident in April, KPBS reported. Charles Raymond Gilbreth died after being struck by a car on the fast-moving thoroughfare near San Diego State University. The new…
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Tough Choices: Rich and Poor San Diegans Take Stock of the American Dream
By Tom Fudge How do you decide what to do with your money when you have very little? In collaboration with KPBS and Speak City Heights, Marketplace Money’s Wealth and Poverty Desk looks at the tough choices faced by families living in poverty. Listen to the report here. There’s more than one house on the gated property of…
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Parking Lot Turns Into Park for a Day
City Heights joined communities throughout the world for the annual Park(ing) Day. Participants transform parking lots into community parks for the day to demonstrate the benefits of having more open space in urban neighborhoods. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers Haga clic aquí para leer en español City…
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SD Unified Serving Up Healthy Lunches
Gary Petill, director of Food and Nutritional Services at San Diego Unified School District, and Vanessa Zajfen, specialist with the Farm to School program at SDUSD, talk to KPBS about school lunches. By Maureen Cavanaugh, Patty Lane, Monaliza Noor, Peggy Pico and Claire Trageser Click here to listen to the KPBS Midday Edition interview In accordance with…
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Tweet City Heights: Governor Approves New Protections for Local Canyons
By Megan Burks Governor Approves New Protections for Canyons KPBS reported this week Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 1169 into law, adding protections to San Diego’s canyons and other open space. The law allows San Diego to dedicate 10,666 more acres of land. Dedicated land requires a two-thirds vote by city residents before the…