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City Heights Is Still Waiting on That Art it Was Promised
When Interstate 15 was extended through City Heights in the mid-1990s, it leveled homes and businesses and cut the community in half. Irate residents demanded concessions from the city and transportation officials, asking for additional infrastructure that might help weave the community back together. Over the years, City Heights has gotten most of its freeway…
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City Heights Family Accused of Burglarizing Their Own Store Files Suit Against SDPD
By H.G. Reza Hedy Julca was arrested inside her store while her 3-year-old son watched from close by. Her son Diego Lobaton, right, was detained by officers outside the store. | Photo by Dustin Michelson San Diego police officers acted “without warrants, probable cause, or reasonable belief,” when they roughed up a mother and her…
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What’s That Lot: Transit Riders See Possibilities in Two City Heights Spaces
There are 57 million square miles of land on earth, including the 4,206 square miles of San Diego County. Even as our population grows, spaces in the midst of our concrete jungle lay strangely fallow. This is an occasional series to explore those mysteriously unused or seemingly untended bits of land. What’s that lot? We’re…
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Renters Facing Unsafe Conditions Get a Boost from the City
In response to a Voice of San Diego and KPBS investigation into substandard housing, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer said earlier this year he’d form a special enforcement team to help tenants. The program got under way this month as the new fiscal year began, and its first order of business was improving access for non-English…
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SDPD: Public Perceptions of Racial Profiling Can Be Wrong
Every year the San Diego Police Department invites the public to experience what police recruits go through in the academy. Video game-like simulators show them what it’s like to weave through traffic with sirens on and talk down a suspect with a knife. This year the department held one of its open house events in…