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  • San Diego Asian Film Festival Turns 15

    San Diego Asian Film Festival trailer | Courtesy of the San Diego Asian Film Festival By Megan Burke and Maureen Cavanaugh Listen to the full KPBS Midday Edition interview with Brian Hu, artistic director of the Pacific Arts Movement, which puts on the festival, and Nahnatchka Khan, executive producer of Fresh Off The Boat. The…

  • Civic San Diego to Draft Community Benefits Policy for City Heights

    Reese Jarrett talks with Myrtle Cole on a vacant lot at Euclid and Hilltop Drive July 25, 2014 | Photo Credit: Nic McVicker, KPBS By Megan Burks A City Council committee that seemed bent on adding government oversight to San Diego’s former redevelopment agency has made an about-face. The Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee…

  • The Ominous Cloud Hanging Over the Class of 2016

    Lincoln High School Principal John Ross talks with a student. | Photo By Jamie Scott Lytle By Mario Koran San Diego Unified has a huge problem on its hands. Data just released by the district shows troubling news about the class of 2016, the first class being held to new stricter graduation requirements. Among the…

  • Measure on November Ballot Would Reduce Some Felonies to Misdemeanors

    By Patty Lane, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico Click here to listen to a full KPBS Midday Edition interview on Proposition 47 featuring former San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne, who co-authored the measure, and San Diego County Chief Deputy District Attorney David Greenberg. The effort to roll back decades of tough on crime legislation…

  • Immigration Holds Plummet in First Year of Trust Act

    By Jill Replogle California law enforcement officials have granted far fewer requests to hold detained immigrants for federal immigration authorities since the state’s Trust Act went into effect this year. The Trust Act limits the ability of local law enforcement to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests to hold immigrants longer than their scheduled…