Category: News
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Bike Sharing is Coming to San Diego
By Andrew Donohue San Diego will join the growing group of urban areas across the country and world with bike-sharing programs by next spring if an ambitious plan by Mayor Jerry Sanders comes to fruition. And his office wants to put a new twist on it. While city officials say their metropolitan predecessors have had…
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Comercios se Esfuerzan por Aumentar el Tráfico Peatonal
Crédito: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Traducción facilitada por City Heights Life Click here to read it in English A las 3 p.m. de un miércoles reciente, el comedor del restaurante vietnamita Hoai Hue, ubicado en City Heights, está más lleno de lo normal. Los cocineros se apuran para preparar los…
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City Heights Looks for a Place to Skate
Click here to listen to the radio report There’s a broad cement path just outside the fence that surrounds Rosa Parks School in City Heights. About eight teenage skateboarders are doing tricks. One leaps skyward and remounts his board after it flips on the pavement below. This is where you come if you don’t have…
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Tweet City Heights: Nearly 1 in 6 Families Had Trouble Getting Food Last Year
By Megan Burks Nearly 1 in 6 U.S. Households Had Trouble Getting Food Last Year A report out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found 14.9 percent, or 17.9 million, households had difficulty putting food on the table at least once last year because of limited resources. The figure is a slight increase over 2010,…
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San Diego’s Low-Income Communities Want Clean Energy
By Maureen Cavanaugh, Patty Lane and Claire Trageser Listen to the Midday Edition interview with Councilman David Alvarez and Nicole Capretz, associate director of the Green Energy, Green Jobs campaign at the Environmental Health Coalition. Amid the flurry of bills sent to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk at the close of the state Assembly session last week, a solar energy bill was left out.…