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  • A Reader’s Guide to Marti Emerald

    One thing Marti Emerald wants to make clear: she’s not a carpetbagger. District 9 moved to her; she didn’t move to District 9. When her husband died last year, she said she went searching for an affordable and appropriate home in District 7 and settled into College View Estates near San Diego State. There, she…

  • Getting to Know School Board Candidate Marne Foster

    School board candidate Marne Foster breaks out into Swedish a few minutes into our interview. It turns out she lived in Karlskrona, in southern Sweden, for a year while her mom, a dance program coordinator, ran a course at the local dance school. The experience gave her “the international bug,” she said, driving her to…

  • Where Being Able to Vote (and Cross the Street) Is a Big Deal

    The story of Ernestina Diaz drives home the one storyline hovering above everything in San Diego’s newest City Council district. She’s lived here for 34 years, since her mother and father immigrated to the United States when she was a young girl. She calls City Heights home, and for a long time owned the piñata…

  • Covering the Basics: What the Candidates Say About Utilities Rates

    By Megan Burks Covering the basics—a home with running water and working electricity—has gotten increasingly more difficult for San Diego families, especially those in Mid-City. Residents have endured several years of water rate increases approved by City Council to keep up with increasing costs passed down from suppliers and to pay for needed infrastructure updates.…

  • When Juvenile Crime Happens

    When defending the heavy focus on curfew sweeps in neighborhoods like City Heights, a tactic we’ve been exploring lately, proponents often say that most violent crime happens during curfew hours. The community needs the sweeps, residents, police and politicians say, to physically remove kids from a dangerous environment so they won’t become victims or perpetrators…