A row of lockers at Castle Park High School. / Photo by Dustin Michelson One of the defining experiences of my life happened in middle school, when school officials called in police after a few…
City to Move Treatment Program Clients Into Motel
The city purchased a shuttered Super 8 motel in Egger Highlands to eventually house people enrolled in its San Diego Misdemeanants At-Risk Track program. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Almost four years ago, the city…
City Will Move Treatment Program Clients Into Motel,…
The city purchased a shuttered Super 8 motel in Egger Highlands to eventually house people enrolled in its San Diego Misdemeanants At-Risk Track program. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz The city is preparing to temporarily…
Facing the Implications of Biased Tech
Image via Shutterstock In 2019, the California Legislature put a stop to the police use of facial recognition. Although law enforcement agencies view the ability to unmask people as a valuable investigative tool, the technology…
Rental Relief Proving Hard to Dole Out
The San Diego Housing Commission office / Photo by Kinsee Morlan The San Diego Housing Commission is now predicting that millions of dollars it received to aid city renters during the pandemic could go unspent…
Volunteers of America Chapter Accused of Fraud
The Volunteers of America Southwest building in San Diego / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Volunteers of America Southwest, the San Diego chapter of the powerful national nonprofit, receives millions of dollars each year in government…
A Former Ambassador Gets Real
Image via Shutterstock The world recently got an inside view of what the United States’ onetime top diplomat south of the border thinks about U.S.-Mexico relations. And it has gone largely unnoticed. Christopher Landau, the…
Tijuana and San Diego Share a Sewage Problem…
The Tijuana River flows through the U.S.-Mexico border region in San Diego. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Vicente Calderon from Tijuana Press and I spend a lot of time picking our way around the sewage-laden…
The Big Choice Facing the EPA
Untreated sewage from Punta Bandera, an out-of-operation wastewater treatment plant south of Tijuana, spills into the Pacific Ocean. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz There’s finally real money on the table for the Environmental Protection Agency…
Two Sources of U.S.-Mexico Sewage Flows Are Fighting…
Ponds of sewage from Tijuana sit untreated at the Punta Bandera wastewater treatment plant, which has been out of operation for years. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz If the San Diego-Tijuana region were a human…