Health care workers prepare hundreds of needles that will administer the COVID-19 vaccine to residents and staff at the La Costa Glen Retirement Community in Carlsbad. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz The new COVID times…
Morning Report: The Governor Can Stay
A ballot box at the Mid-City Gym polling place in City Heights / Photo by Adriana Heldiz The attempt to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom failed. It wasn’t close. Almost 66 percent of California voters rejected…
County Joins Region’s Largest Government-Run Power Purchasing Agency
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors / Photo by Adriana Heldiz This post originally appeared in the Sept. 1 Morning Report. Get the Morning Report delivered to your inbox. San Diego County Supervisors decided to join…
EPA Narrows Border Pollution Projects to Three
A tributary near the U.S.-Mexico border where sewage from Tijuana flows through. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz My border-reporting colleague Gustavo Solis reminded us recently of the slow-going on solving the Tijuana River cross-border sewage…
Little Action on Border Sewage Crisis Since $300M…
Trash piles up near the Tijuana River. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Rain fell on San Diego Monday. It wasn’t a lot of rain – an Accuweather forecast called for “a brief morning shower or…
Reopening Still Uncertain Amid Baja Vaccine Push
The San Ysidro Port of Entry / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Yes, I am aware that the Border Report is turning into the Reopen the Border Report. But this continues to be the biggest local…
Big Question Marks Are Hanging Over the District…
Illustration by Adriana Heldiz It’s now less than a year until the primary for the District 6 San Diego City Council seat. Candidates are lined up, and they’re sweating a big deadline: June 30 is…
What We Learned This Week
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…