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  • City Heights Candidate, Council Reps Get Labor Report Card

    By Maureen Cavanaugh, Pat Finn, Peggy Pico and Claire Trageser   Five of the eight members of the San Diego City Council were given failing grades by the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council yesterday for their stances on 24 key issues. City Heights representative Tony Young received one of them. Young, Carl DeMaio, Kevin Faulconer, Sherri Lightner and…

  • Letter: Are Curfew Sweeps Worth Dividing the Community?

    By Diana Ross Diana Ross is the collaborative director for the Mid-City Community Advocacy Network. You can reach her at dross@midcitycan.org. Mid-City CAN knows that children’s safety is important. In 2009, we conducted 105 house meetings with more than 1,500 residents in 13 languages in City Heights. At these house meetings, we heard that message…

  • Tweet City Heights: Community Groups Want More Say in City Budget

    By Megan Burks Community Groups Want More Say in City Budget KPBS reported Monday some community groups are upset neighborhood councils and residents have been shut out of the preliminary phases of the city’s budget process. Each spring, the mayor releases a budget draft after consulting with city departments and staff. His office then presents…

  • School Board Candidates Debate How To Serve City Heights, SE San Diego

    By Kyla Calvert Candidates for the San Diego Unified’s Board of Education outlined their visions for the school district at Knox Middle School Wednesday night. Marne Foster and William Ponder are vying to replace Sheila Jackson as the board’s representative for Sub District E, which covers the southeastern region of the city, including Skyline, Paradise…

  • Police Gathering Curfew Stats, But Not the Key Ones

    The San Diego Police Department has begun compiling thousands of documents in an effort to better understand its curfew sweeps, a major initiative aimed at cutting crime among kids younger than 18. But this new effort still won’t an answer a major question about the program’s overall effectiveness. Police won’t know whether the sweeps have…