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City Heights Youth Activist Heads to Lady Gaga Foundation Launch
By Kyla Calvert Pop icon Lady Gaga is launching her Born This Way Foundation in Boston this week and Mark Tran, a San Diego organizer, will be on hand as one of California’s 18 young adult delegates. Lady Gaga is partnering with The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, the John D.…
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Tweet City Heights: Fast-Filling Jails and a Tax-Initiative Smorgasbord
By Megan Burks State Could Miss Realignment Deadline Despite Fast-Filling County Jails KPBS reported this week county jails are filling up faster than expected under AB 109 and could reach capacity by October. A planned jail expansion won’t be completed for another two years, so the Sheriff hopes to rely on alternative custody programs such…
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Restoring a Canyon and Creek, With Some Help From the Neighbors
By Adrian Florido John Stewart’s house is perched at the edge of Radio Canyon. From his backyard he looks out over a lush, gaping chasm that separates his southeastern San Diego neighborhood of Emerald Hills from the Encanto neighborhood. He’s lived there since 1961, so he’s watched the canyon evolve. “A lot of people used…
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Sex Ed After Hours: CORE Brings Condoms and Hip Hop to Hoover
Video Credit: Brian Myers and Edgar Montejano, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks In a departure from typical school-hall etiquette, Hoover High School students were encouraged to shout out slang and swear words for sex and reproductive organs on Feb. 8. Theresa Fox, a sex education speaker and spoken word artist, spat out…
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Tweet City Heights: The President’s Budget on Immigration and Refugees
By Megan Burks The President’s Budget on Immigration and Refugees President Obama released his 2013 budget proposal this week. It includes several changes for departments handling immigration enforcement and refugee assistance. Michael E. Hill, an immigration reporter on Capitol Hill, laid out the details this week. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would see a 4 percent cut…