Category: News

  • Tweet City Heights: Nation’s Prison Pipeline, People Take Back Media

    By Megan Burks Giving Dropouts a Face and a Name This week, Twitter was full links to a National Public Radio series on the nation’s dropout crisis. According to NPR, 1 million students stop attending school each year, costing the nation at least $319 billion annually. The personal cost is steeper, contributing to a cycle…

  • Locals Discuss Famine in Somalia

    By Megan Burke and Marueen Cavanaugh A 10-ton shipment of peanut-butter based nutritional paste landed today in Mogadishu for famine-victims in Somalia. Thousands of starving Somalis escape from their lawless country every day in an effort to get help at refugee camps in neighboring Kenya. It’s estimated at least 18-thousand children inside Somalia are suffering…

  • Report: 40 Americans Have Trained and Fought With Al Shabaab

    By Amita Sharma A new congressional report says an Al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia has recruited more than 40 Americans. Of the more than three dozen Americans believed to be training or fighting with Al Shabaab in Somalia, 15 have died, according to the House Homeland Security Committee’s report. At least three of the Americans died in…

  • A Dilemma in Kensington-Talmadge

    Kensington and Talmadge were both drawn into the new 9th City Council District in City Heights. Kensington wants out but Talmadge leaders see opportunity to influence development on El Cajon Boulevard. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido The new 9th City Council District was drawn with two goals in mind: to empower Latinos,…

  • San Diego’s Urban Farms: Oases In Food Deserts

    The City Heights Farmers Market has become a model for outdoor markets that offer fresh produce to low-income immigrant folks in the inner city. | Photo Credit: Tom Fudge By Tom Fudge The Bayside Community Center sits on the edge of Tecolote Canyon amidst a landscape of rental housing, abandoned lots and strip malls. This…