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  • A Brief History of Mid-City Transit

    By Brian Myers   We asked the candidates for District 9 Monday how they would work to improve transit options for City Heights residents. Transit riders and community advocates say the neighborhood hasn’t gotten a fair shake from transportation authorities, who sliced the community in two with Interstate 15 in the 1990s. Above, Maria Cortez…

  • Is Prison Realignment Working?

    Above: Margaret Dooley-Sammuli from the ACLU and Chief Mack Jenkins, head of the San Diego County Probation Department, speak to Evening Edition about the realignment program. By Beth Accomando, Adriana Alcaraz and Erik Anderson It’s been six months since California started shifting low-level prison inmates and funding from state to county jails, and a new report from the…

  • Readers Debate Curfew Sweeps

    By Keegan Kyle My story last week about San Diego’s increased use of curfew sweeps stirred a passionate discussion. Proponents have long said the sweeps are responsible for a recent drop in juvenile crime, but our analysis of five years of crime trends questions whether that’s true. Places without the sweeps have reported equal or greater…

  • SDSU Greeks Encourage Somali Children To Pursue Higher Education

    By Dwane Brown It was a day of service for fraternity and sorority members from San Diego State University. This year’s beneficiary is a charter school — that primarily serves the Somalian community. It brought a record number of SDSU students together to encourage youngsters from Iftin Charter school to pursue a college degree, while…

  • The Cost of Violating Curfew

    By Keegan Kyle I appeared on three local news programs Tuesday to talk about my investigation of San Diego’s curfew sweeps and to my surprise, each program grilled me on a question I wasn’t entirely sure how to answer. They asked me to describe the possible fine for violating San Diego’s curfew law, which prohibits minors from…