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San Diego 101: How Homelessness Is Criminalized
Lisa Halverstadt walks through the different policies in place that contribute to the criminalization of homelessness in San Diego.
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Lisa Halverstadt walks through the different policies in place that contribute to the criminalization of homelessness in San Diego.
Plus: Tom Lemmon announced his retirement, homeless camps along freeways and Haitian migrants continue to come to Tijuana.
The Building Trades Council discovered that Tom Lemmon received up to $200,000 he was not entitled to over the last five years.
Officials in Tijuana are seeing a rise in applications from Haitians in recent weeks, but the numbers have remained relatively small.
Interviews with experts suggest that the pandemic played a considerable role, as did an ongoing lack of trust in law enforcement.
Gun-related aggravated assaults are up but San Diego is safe, political roundup and elsewhere in the Empire.
We may be beginning the tense part of redistricting. And Republicans send out a lot of competing messages about their worst fears.
This week the hosts recap redistricting drama that’s heating up after an abrupt resignation. Plus: The city’s latest real estate disaster.
Several deaths at city-owned hotels have provoked questions from city leaders while providers struggle to maintain services.
A new generation of leaders and advocates want to repeal the century-old policy that keeps the city from charging some residents for trash.
Plus, the Lucky Duck Foundation urges local leaders to make plans to add winter shelter beds, and the revisioning of the Midway District.
Mitz Lee's resignation leaves District 6 without representation on the redistricting commission and an overnight parking ban in Mission Bay.
Plus, supervisor advocates COVID jail analysis, Amazon warehouse falls apart and council approves Nehad settlement without Moreno’s vote.
Lee's resignation now leaves both District 6 and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community without representation.
The City Council got updates on what they can control for now and where the jobs in the region’s energy industry come from.
It's hard to stand out as a bad real estate deal in the city of San Diego, but one that has mostly avoided scrutiny keeps getting worse.
State figures give a better sense of the natural gas employment landscape. Plus, San Diego reconsiders its trash pickup policy.
A newly-unsealed autopsy, coupled with a video the Chula Vista Police Department published in August, gives the public more details.
Plus, an update on vacation rentals, the suburbs are changing, talking politics and 101 Ash St.
Officials were excited to receive a free tent shelter from the Lucky Duck Foundation. It never went up and now the city is returning it.