Tag: San Diego

  • More Latino Youths in Juvenile Hall for Drug Offenses

    By Ruxandra Guidi Despite treatment and prevention services for those at risk of entering the juvenile-justice system, in the last couple of years, more than 5,000 San Diego youths have passed through county correctional facilities. A majority were allegedly involved in gang activity and about half are Latino. According to the report by the San Diego Association of Governments,…

  • Loosening Restricted Airspace for Backyard Bees

    By Brian Myers San Diego City Council is expected to vote on changes early next year to its ordinances that regulate farming within city limits. The proposed changes would relax regulations on farmers’ markets, retail farms, backyard chickens, miniature goats and honeybees. Currently, space restrictions mean few households within city limits can keep farm animals.…

  • City Schools Still Face Big Deficit

    Ron Little, chief financial officer of the San Diego Unified School District | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Will Carless When the news came in yesterday that Gov. Jerry Brown would be making far smaller cuts to state education funding than previously expected, there were grins all round at a school board workshop at the San Diego…

  • San Diego Tackles Prisoner Recidivism

    San Diego is one of a few California counties that plan to avoid building more jails by keeping offenders from ending up back behind bars. That’s a tough assignment when jobs are scarce and many in this population have nowhere to live. By Nicholas McVicker and Alison St John Frederick Recupido, 35, recently arrived in…

  • School Board Braces for Worst Case: Cutting More Than 700 Positions

    By Emily Alpert The school board got a glimpse last night of just how bad things could get for San Diego Unified schools: More than 700 positions would be eliminated. Class sizes would increase in many disadvantaged schools. Schools would be cleaned less often and have fewer counselors and nurses. California is slated to cut…