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  • Emerald Plans Community Meetings to Discuss Albertson’s Replacement

    By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico “Midday Edition,” Aired Jan. 28, 2014 Part 1: [audio:http://speakcityheights.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/AlbertsonsPt1.mp3] Part 2: [audio:http://speakcityheights.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/AlbertsonsPt2.mp3] When the Albertson’s in City Heights closes its doors next month, it will likely put another obstacle between residents and healthy food options. City Heights has been described as a food desert: those are mostly…

  • Latino Enrollment in Covered California Health Plans Picks Up

    Photo Credit: Tarryn Mento, KPBS By Kenny Goldberg The latest enrollment numbers from Covered California show more than 625,000 people have signed up for new health insurance plans. Between Oct. 1 and mid-December, Latinos represented only 5 percent of total enrollment. Things changed in the last two weeks of the year. By the end of…

  • Police to Overhaul Racial Profiling Data Effort

    By Liam Dillon San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne said Tuesday that the department will overhaul its racial data collection policies on traffic stops. “We’ve got to build that system almost from scratch,” Lansdowne told KPBS’s “Midday Edition.” Listen to it here. Lansdowne said he’s meeting with local civil rights and neighborhood advocacy organizations to…

  • New Report Finds 10 Percent of San Diegans Live in Poverty

    By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico It has been 50 years since the U.S. government declared a “War On Poverty,” but it is still a serious problem across the nation and in San Diego. A new report by the San Diego Association of Governments used Census data to assess poverty levels in the…

  • Police: ‘We Do Our Very Best to Reach Everyone’

    Police Chief William Lansdowne let a key check on racial profiling slide because he hadn’t heard it’s a concern in the community. Here’s what the department does to open lines of communication, and why some voices aren’t being heard. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Assistant Police Chief…