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State legislation offering more funding to community colleges seeking to build housing has motivated many colleges to make efforts to do so.
Plus: San Diego’s surveillance ordinance passes another hurdle and the science behind San Diego’s new poo-detector.
More than five Marines per year died by suicide. At least 20 took their lives in the barracks and another four during training exercises.
Plus: Who really thinks San Diego is going to reach its housing goals and Oceanside opens internal investigation against city treasurer.
The county stipulated that beaches would only close when there was a “known” source of sewage contamination.
This week Voice of San Diego published a powerful story about the alarming rate young men in the military are dying by suicide.
Do you believe the city will issue 108,000 housing permits by 2029? This is what the city’s elected officials said.
This hosts discuss a new citizens initiative, young men in the military and suicide, and a story about a local woman’s murder.
Brian Mason been entitled to this new evidentiary hearing since 2019, but it’ll have to wait another three months.
Plus: Businesses with structures that don’t have a permanent permit could eventually get slapped with a $1,000 citation.
A century ago, same-sex couples and a female impersonator lived prominent and public lives here.
To meet its housing target by 2029, the city will need to nearly triple the pace of its housing production.
Plus: Workers and politicians rally for fair hotel contract ahead of strike vote and graduates of some colleges are leaving San Diego.
Tijuana’s beloved street opera festival and other arts activities are back, and Friendship Park’s future.
Plus: A San Diego case that’s testing the limits of a statewide criminal justice reform was postponed, yet again.
Plus: Study shows lack of affordable housing as key factor to rising homelessness and an inside look into life in a 24-hour safe parking lot
Safeguard San Diego is a proposed ballot measure, authored by council members Raul A. Campillo and Stephen Whitburn.
Plus: Hello from a new citizens initiative and summertime blues, meet summertime news.
The suicide crisis among veterans has been well documented. But another dark phenomenon exists just beneath the surface.
Hit that play button, crack a cold one and enjoy.
