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  • Comercios se Esfuerzan por Aumentar el Tráfico Peatonal

    Crédito: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Traducción facilitada por City Heights Life Click here to read it in English A las 3 p.m. de un miércoles reciente, el comedor del restaurante vietnamita Hoai Hue, ubicado en City Heights, está más lleno de lo normal. Los cocineros se apuran para preparar los…

  • City Heights Looks for a Place to Skate

    Click here to listen to the radio report There’s a broad cement path just outside the fence that surrounds Rosa Parks School in City Heights. About eight teenage skateboarders are doing tricks. One leaps skyward and remounts his board after it flips on the pavement below. This is where you come if you don’t have…

  • Tweet City Heights: Nearly 1 in 6 Families Had Trouble Getting Food Last Year

    By Megan Burks Nearly 1 in 6 U.S. Households Had Trouble Getting Food Last Year A report out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found 14.9 percent, or 17.9 million, households had difficulty putting food on the table at least once last year because of limited resources. The figure is a slight increase over 2010,…

  • San Diego’s Low-Income Communities Want Clean Energy

    By Maureen Cavanaugh, Patty Lane and Claire Trageser Listen to the Midday Edition interview with Councilman David Alvarez and Nicole Capretz, associate director of the Green Energy, Green Jobs campaign at the Environmental Health Coalition. Amid the flurry of bills sent to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk at the close of the state Assembly session last week, a solar energy bill was left out.…

  • Meet Crawford’s New (and Only) Principal

    Crawford High School student and Media Arts Center San Diego teen producer Jose Uribe interviews his school’s new principal, Ana Maria Alvarez. Alvarez was brought on board to oversee Crawford’s transition from four small schools to a single, comprehensive high school. By Megan Burks Crawford High School students went back to their same campus yesterday,…