Category: News

  • Welfare To Work Checks Reduced, Starting Today

    By Alison St John Beginning today, families in California’s Welfare to Work program will see an 8 percent reduction in their monthly benefit checks. It’s the result of cuts proposed in March and approved as part of the final state budget signed this week. In San Diego County 85,000 families are enrolled in Cal Works, the…

  • Healthy Eating Benefits Waistline And Wallets For Low-Income Families

    By Peggy Pico The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program provides low-income families who qualify with food vouchers. Those vouchers will soon have double value when used to buy healthy foods, like fresh fruit and vegetables. The incentive idea comes from the California Endowment, a statewide health foundation. Tony Iton, M.D., J.D., is senior vice…

  • Minority Groups Speak Out Against County’s Redistricting Plan

    By Alison St John The redistricting map proposed by the county redistricting committee lumps City Heights in with La Jolla. The ACLU says it fails to create a district with a Latino majority.   The map created by the ACLU and Latino and Africa American groups has City Heights with Lemon Grove and Spring Valley.…

  • New Roadblock for Reviving Refugee Farm

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido A year ago, Ourn Lun, a grandmotherly 60-year-old, was evicted from a piece of city-owned land where she and a group of fellow Cambodian refugees had grown crops like bitter melon, red peppers and green beans in peaceful obscurity for nearly three decades. The refugees, all of them…

  • Chronically Absent Students Cost City Heights Schools More Than 3 Million

    Photo Credit: KPBS News By Joanne Faryon and Kevin Crowe Student 114 is a sophomore at Lincoln High in Southeast San Diego. What makes her exceptional is the number of school days she missed last year – 87, or nearly half the 10th grade. She cost her school $2,464.71. A KPBS-Watchdog Institute investigation found there…