Category: News

  • Food Waste Activists Serve Vegetarian Meals At City Heights Park

    Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers On a Sunday afternoon a group of activists drive their car up to the park next to the City Heights Library and pull a large steaming pot of soup out of the car. They take it over to a table, along with bags…

  • Study: Corrections Spending Up, Crime At Historic Low Under AB 109

    By Megan Burks The state is four years into its program to reduce prison overcrowding by shifting lower-level offenders to county jails and probation, and reducing some sentences. Lawmakers expected fewer people in prison would mean fewer costs, while critics expected a spike in crime. The nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California reported this week…

  • California Working to Bring Interpreters to Civil Courtrooms

    By Megan Burks California state courts have long provided interpreters to people who are accused of a crime. But when it comes to civil cases where things like custody or restraining orders are decided, the need is not met. The state is pushing forward this month with a plan to change that. Last year the legislature…

  • La Maestra Launches Mobile Breast Exam Unit

    Community leaders celebrated San Diego’s first mobile mammography coach Monday. It’s a bus outfitted with state-of-the-art imaging equipment and will bring mammograms to women where they live, work and run errands. Susan G. Komen San Diego reports local doctors see slightly more late-stage breast cancer diagnoses than doctors in other parts of the state. La…

  • Long-Time Mid-City Business to Become San Diego’s Next Coworking Space

    Video Credit: Megan Burks, KPBS By Megan Burks It’s been a lumber store, an office for engineers working on the Atlas Rocket, and supplied San Diego churches with religious goods for 50 years. Now the 3700 block of El Cajon Boulevard will live yet another life. Grasshopper Development is in talks to purchase the O’Connor’s…