Tag: Marti Emerald

  • Residents Call for More Efficient, Affordable Transit

    But blame for bus deficiencies didn’t rest squarely on the Metropolitan Transit System, which maintains the buses and sets fares. Instead, attendees criticized planning authorities and elected officials who say there just isn’t enough money to better fund MTS and back new transit projects. The forum attracted many from City Heights’ refugee and immgrant communities.…

  • Candidates Square Off Over District 9

    Mateo Camarillo, a businessman and longtime social activist in the Latino community, and Marti Emerald, former radio and television investigative reporter and current San Diego City Councilwoman representing District 7, talk to KPBS about their runs for District 9. By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh, Amita Sharma and Claire Trageser The two candidates for San Diego…

  • City Heights, Kensington and Their Surrounding Environs: Explained

    By Andrew Donohue The City Council’s Ninth District has four distinctive groups of neighborhoods. There’s City Heights, Kensington/Talmadge, the College Area around San Diego State and three southeastern San Diego neighborhoods — Mount Hope, Southcrest and Mountain View. They all have distinct needs and desires. And for the first time, they’re grouped together in the…

  • City Heights Candidate, Council Reps Get Labor Report Card

    By Maureen Cavanaugh, Pat Finn, Peggy Pico and Claire Trageser   Five of the eight members of the San Diego City Council were given failing grades by the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council yesterday for their stances on 24 key issues. City Heights representative Tony Young received one of them. Young, Carl DeMaio, Kevin Faulconer, Sherri Lightner and…

  • 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…