Category: News

  • San Diego Bike Program For Ex-Offenders Takes Off

    Transportation is crucial to getting around San Diego County and a new program will make it easier for ex-offenders to use refurbished bikes to get to work and other reentry programs. The program, Providing Ex-Offenders Driving Alternatives for Life or PEDAL, is sponsored by the San Diego Crime Commission. It sends donated or confiscated bikes…

  • Council Members Tackle Questions of Race Relations, Community Involvement

    Several City Council members said Wednesday that further engagement with the community is necessary to strengthen public trust in the San Diego Police Department — part of the fallout from fatal shootings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City. The comments at a meeting of the council’s Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods…

  • San Diego Council Members to Mayor: Make Our Neighborhoods a Budget Priority

    San Diego Council Members to Mayor: Make Our Neighborhoods a Budget Priority

    And so it begins. The city of San Diego kicked off its six-month-long budget process Wednesday, and council members representing neighborhoods south of Interstate 8 were first up at the podium. Each budget season starts with the city’s nine council members finding consensus on what to fund and then forwarding their recommendations to the mayor.…

  • The Voice of a Survivor: Rallying to Raise Awareness About Sex Trafficking

    Alexandria ‘Magik’ Rice goes to Balboa Park on Jan. 10 to interview  sex trafficking survivors who were raising awareness about the growing problem in San Diego County. | Video Credit: Alexandria ‘Magik’ Rice By Alexandria ‘Magik’ Rice Alexandria ‘Magik’ Rice, a youth videographer working with the Media Arts Center, attended a sex trafficking awareness rally in Balboa…

  • Suspensions, Expulsions Down In San Diego Schools

    A student runs up stairs at Monroe Clark Middle School in City Heights. | Photo Credit: Cecia, The AjA Project By Megan Burks A new law aiming to limit school discipline measures that take students out of class went into effect Jan. 1. But new data from the California Department of Education shows districts have…