Tag: San Diego

  • Video: A Refugee Hub in City Heights

    By Adrian Florido [Editor’s Note: San Diego Explained is a video series produced by voiceofsandiego.org and NBC7 San Diego. You can see more of the series here.] In the last four decades, San Diego has become a hub for the resettlement of refugees fleeing wars and conflict around the world, from Vietnam to Somalia to…

  • Video: Mama’s Kitchen Has New Home

    By Dwane Brown and Nicholas McVicker Last week Mama’s Kitchen opened its new facility in Fairmont Park on Home Avenue. The non-profit has been delivering free meals to AIDS and cancer patients in San Diego County for 20 years. On it’s first day of operation at the new site, volunteers were putting food into grocery…

  • Councilwoman Emerald to Run in District 9

    By Katie Orr City Heights is now in City Council District 9 and must elect a new representative next year. A day after the new city council district map was approved, Councilwoman Marti Emerald announced she’ll run for the new ninth district. That leaves her current seventh-district seat up for grabs. Political Scientist Carl Luna…

  • He Loves His Country, and His Cars

    [oqeygallery id=6] Photo credit: Sam Hodgson Voiceofsandiego.org’s Sam Hodgson has been surveying El Cajon Boulevard with his camera this year for a photo series called “Tales From the Boulevard.” Today he featured Dave Meyer, who has been “doing surgery on American engines for close to five decades.” His service garage on the border of Corridor…

  • Council Considers Legalizing Backyard Bees, Fowl, Even Pygmy Goats

    By Adrian Florido Two-and-a-half months after the City Council legalized community gardens on most vacant lots, at least two parcels are already being primed to nurture their first seeds. Both gardens are being started by nonprofits that serve low-income or immigrant neighborhoods in Mount Hope and Linda Vista. As it embraces and promotes urban agriculture, San Diego is…