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  • Extra Swim Class at YMCA Becomes Gender, Immigrant Issue

    Dr. Adina Batnitzky, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of San Diego, addresses reader comments that call a women-only swim class at the Copley YMCA discrimination and wrongheaded. By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh, Peggy Pico and Claire Trageser Click here to listen to an extended interview with Adina Batnitzky, Andrea Freeman and Megan…

  • Shorter School Year Could Hit Immigrant Families Hardest

    By Will Carless If anyone in San Diego knows the value of education, it’s Fatima Abdelrahman. Five years ago, Abdelrahman arrived in City Heights from Darfur, Sudan, with her five children. None of her kids had ever been to school before arriving in the United States. At first, her children struggled. They sat in classes…

  • Canyons Considered Dangerous Despite Improvements

    By Brian Myers Rosa Olascoaga never walks alone through the canyon next to her home in City Heights, opting to take the longer route to get to the other side of the neighborhood. Despite steep illegal dumping fines, garbage, broken furniture and toxic pollution find their way into the canyons from residents and storm runoff.…

  • Tweet City Heights: Sneak Peek at Central Avenue Mini Park (Skatepark Included)

    By Megan Burks Sneak Peek at Central Avenue Mini Park (Skatepark Included) City Heights Councilman Todd Gloria tweeted the current design for the Central Avenue Mini Park this week. The plans are undergoing community review and construction on the 28,000-square-foot park at Central Avenue and Landis Street is schedule to begin this fiscal year. The…

  • A Voting Power Gap in District 9

    Last year, a city commission redrew San Diego’s City Council boundaries to account for shifts in population and decided to create a second, Latino-majority district. The district stretches from Southcrest to City Heights and then northeast to neighborhoods around San Diego State University. Though Latinos succeeded in getting another Latino-majority district, there was some worry…