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Health Care Advocates Slam Proposed Cuts to Healthy Families Program
By Kenny Goldberg Criticism continues to mount over Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget. Health care advocates are especially concerned about cuts to the Healthy Families program. Healthy Families provides low-cost dental, vision and health benefits to children of the working poor. About 875,000 kids statewide are enrolled. Brown’s proposed budget would cut the rate the…
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Tweet City Heights: Budget Proposal Threatens CalWorks, Schools
By Megan Burks Governor Unveils Budget Plan, Puts Schools in Voters’ Hands Gov. Jerry Brown released his budget proposal yesterday with a dire warning for schools: if voters don’t agree to raise taxes in the fall, he’ll call for an automatic cut of $4.8 billion to public education. His proposed ballot initiative would ask to…
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Field Guide: The Redevelopment Ruling and City Heights
By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX What is redevelopment? A funding mechanism that allows local governments to keep a portion of property tax money for development in blighted communities.…
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Will Loss of Redevelopment Funds Hurt Affordable Housing?
By Alison St John, Patty Lane and Megan Burks Finding an affordable place to live in San Diego is a challenge. More and more people are being priced out the market which is why it is so important to keep building affordable housing projects. There are laws defining how much affordable housing must be built…
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Museum of Contemporary Art to Host ’44th and Landis’ Installation
By Kelly Bennett Upending the familiar model of art grants going to big institutions, a new program from the San Diego Foundation aims money at individual artists’ ideas. If a museum or an orchestra wants in on the game, it must agree to house or support the selected artists’ work. In a voiceofsandiego.org interview…