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For years, homeless activists have accused San Diego hospitals of "patient dumping," or returning homeless patients to the streets before they can recover. A new series by @LisaHalverstadt reveals what’s really happening, as well as possible solutions 🧵

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A VOSD analysis of San Diego Police Department crime data shows that Black San Diegans made up nearly 24 percent of all coronavirus-related offenses, despite being 6.5 percent of the population.

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Black San Diegans Received a Quarter of All Coronavirus-Related Citations

A VOSD analysis of San Diego Police Department crime data shows that Black San Diegans made up nearly 24 percent of all coronavirus-related offenses, despite being 5.5 percent of the population.

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An art installation that depicts police officers as pigs at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido will not be removed by the board despite recent backlash from the public and the city’s elected officials.

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Start your day with a roundup of San Diego's most important stories. Subscribe to our Morning Report today:

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Todd Gloria will be San Diego’s next mayor.

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Border officials have stopped processing asylum-seekers at the ports of entry who’d already been forced to wait months for interviews.

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All this week, we’ll be publishing our findings of local police officers who've been convicted of a crime in the last decade. Thanks to some of the strictest laws in the country, Californians don’t always know who’s patrolling their streets

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Many California Cops Have Kept Their Jobs After Being Convicted of a Crime

A review by an unprecedented collaboration of newsrooms, including Voice of San Diego, found 630 California police officers convicted of a crime in the last decade. Nearly one out of five officers in...

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Column: “Six years ago, that site in Mission Valley was a sad reminder of civic incompetence, failed visions and betrayal. Now, it’s set to be the hottest place in town.”

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Democrats appear to have taken control of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors for the first time in at least a generation.

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Escondido spent 70% of its general fund homeless dollars last year on the city's police department. Residents argue that money should have gone toward funding homeless services.

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We're suing @SDSU for withholding public records that may show how the university plans to expand its campus into Mission Valley, build a river park and a new stadium – all without raising student tuition and fees.

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San Diego is known for fish tacos, telecommunications technology, craft beer and … stadium renderings.

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An audit found @Kevin_Faulconer misrepresented a major real estate acquisition to the City Council and refused to talk to investigators about it, yet the damaging findings didn't even register statewide.

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We’re so proud of @andy_keatts for winning Journalist of the Year at tonight’s @sdspj awards. Enjoy this small clip of his acceptance speech.

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Facebook says its effort to establish a service that provides users with local news is being hindered by the lack of outlets where the company's technicians can find original reporting.

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There are more seniors and people with disabilities living on San Diego streets than ever. Advocates worry what a city camping ban could mean for them.

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An Army veteran struggling to afford rent in Encinitas says she finds the insinuation from wealthy residents that low-income people like her, living in denser developments, would disrupt otherwise charming neighborhoods offensive and demeaning.

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1/ In honor of @bellamayaross ’ last week as a VOSD intern, here are some of the biggest stories she’s worked on for us.

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Voters in #CA49 said they were highly aware of the unique opportunity they’d been given to not only help flip the U.S. House for Democrats but send a message to the president and the lawmakers who support him.

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San Diego has created far more jobs in recent decades than homes. Rents and housing prices have soared and so has homelessness. A new book explains how it's all related.

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Yes, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem

It’s time to acknowledge that our lack of housing created something like a natural disaster and as we begin the years-long effort to catch up, the crisis should be treated just like the catastrophe...

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Mayor Todd Gloria wants the state to overhaul its conservatorship process to make it easier to force vulnerable homeless people into care.

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Gloria Wants More Leeway to Force Mentally Ill San Diegans Off the Street

Mayor Todd Gloria revealed during his State of the City speech last week that he’s urging the state to overhaul its conservatorship process to make it easier to push vulnerable homeless people into...

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Several months ago, Tony Krvaric, the chair of the San Diego County Republican Party, warned his Twitter followers that mail-ballot voting is “fraught with danger.” Krvaric himself has voted by mail in 22 consecutive elections dating back to 2004.

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Hotel workers at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront will go on strike starting today. This decision comes hours before the start of Comic-Con’s preview night.

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Workers and Politicians Rally For Fair Hotel Contract Ahead of Strike Vote

A strike authorization vote is scheduled for Friday, less than a week before the start of Comic Con.

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In a new op-ed, Councilwoman @CD4Monica details why she wants to see a $10 million cut to police overtime. “Let me be clear: This is not a cut in public safety, it’s an investment in crime prevention,” she writes.

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Over a dozen San Diego media outlets are covering #homeless issues today. #HomelessinSD

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Coleen Cusack, a pro-bono attorney who has long opposed the city crackdowns on homeless residents, announced Tuesday that she wants to unseat District 3 City Councilman Stephen Whitburn.

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Attorney for Unsheltered San Diegans Wants to Oust Downtown Councilman

Coleen Cusack, a pro-bono attorney who has long opposed the city crackdowns on homeless residents, is seeking the District 3 City Council seat.

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During a tense exchange at our Board of Supervisors debate, candidate Amy Reichert asked Monica Montgomery Steppe to apologize for an email characterizing her as a science denying right-wing extremist. Montgomery Steppe doubled down.

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Montgomery Steppe Rebuffs Reichert’s Apology Request

Board of Supervisors candidate Amy Reichert confronted her opponent over an email calling her a science denying right-wing extremist.

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"The ability to write clearly and compellingly is a rare gift. To do it on subjects that are often boring or mystifying to the public is even rarer," writes VOSD's Sara Libby in her farewell piece to @ryrivard .

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Spouses of skilled immigrant workers may soon be unable to work in the United States.

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Change to Spousal Visa Could Impact San Diego’s Ability to Lure Talented Workers

Spouses of skilled immigrant workers may soon be unable to work in the United States. One-fifth of H-4 visa holders who are allowed to work reside in California. The change could especially impact...

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Anthony Atienza was Chula Vista High School’s 2017 Teacher of the Year. He was also found by district officials to have serially harassed and groped several students.

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Mayor Todd Gloria and Councilman Stephen Whitburn are rallying for a controversial ordinance that would bar homeless camps in areas including within two blocks of shelter. That could significantly impact East Village and its unsheltered residents.

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If Measure G passed, @SDSU expects to need $550M to build a new stadium and begin preparing the land. SDSU officials have promised they will not raise student tuition or fees, but they are uncertain or secretive about how exactly everything would play out.

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Unionized grad workers who protested a recent UCSD alumni event were hit with administrative violations including physical assault that could result in their dismissal. Many of the workers view it as a way to disrupt union organizing.

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UCSD Grad Workers Facing Administrative Violations for Protest

UC San Diego has levied administrative violations including physical assault against grad workers who staged a protest at a May alumni event.

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State auditors have been investigating SDG&E for shockingly high energy rates since May. Now the governor wants the feds to step in.

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SDG&E Rates Under Some Serious Scrutiny

The state auditors have already been investigating San Diego Gas and Electric for shockingly high energy rates since the legislature asked it to back in May. Now the governor wants the feds to step...

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Major portions of San Diego’s juvenile detention facilities sit empty. And it’s not just San Diego. Falling crime rates, combined with more money for prevention and a changing juvenile justice culture, have virtually emptied California’s juvenile halls.

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Opinion: San Diegans should vote based on the convadium’s benefits and economic returns for San Diego

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As San Diego struggles to transform the Midway area into a coherent neighborhood with affordable homes and amenities, you may not know it used to be one 75 years ago.

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During the campaign to decide the fate of Mission Valley last fall, @SDSU repeatedly promised to pay “fair market value” for the old Qualcomm Stadium site. Now, a top school official says the city should reduce the sales price by millions.

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State auditors have been investigating SDG&E for shockingly high energy rates since May. Now the governor wants the feds to step in.

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SDG&E Rates Under Some Serious Scrutiny

The state auditors have already been investigating San Diego Gas and Electric for shockingly high energy rates since the legislature asked it to back in May. Now the governor wants the feds to step...

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A San Diego judge has sided with Voice of San Diego in a lawsuit seeking county records of #COVID19 deaths.

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What We Learned This Week: Chief David Nisleit responded to video of officers beating a black man the same way they have responded to other incidents: by immediately vilifying the person and by releasing selective evidence that bolsters their case.

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If a San Diegan paid $105 on their gas bill last January, expect this month’s bill to be $225, according to SDG&E.

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The Latest Spike in SDG&E Bills Is a Doozy

This time last year, energy prices suddenly shot up, sparking a barrage of criticism and even an audit of San Diego Gas and Electric. This January, it’s way worse. The cost of natural gas is up 116...

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Just another normal week in California politics, carrying on quite normally.

A Brief History of Lorena Gonzalez’s Blood Feud With Rob Schneider

Just another normal week in California politics, carrying on quite normally.

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We're so proud to see our very own @LisaHalverstadt be honored as @sdspj 's 2024 Journalist of the Year 👏🏼 Check out her coverage here:

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It's official: @LisaHalverstadt of @voiceofsandiego is San Diego SPJ's 2024 Journalist of the Year 🏆 We're excited to honor Halverstadt for her thoughtful homelessness coverage, as well as her relentless reporting on 101 Ash St. More about her work:

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After almost five years back in elected office, Nathan Fletcher is, once again, unemployed.

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Fletcher Is Officially Out

Nathan Fletcher resigned Monday. The four remaining members of the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at the beginning of the month to fill the vacant seat with a special election.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom has the authority to declare the sewage crisis at the Tijuana River an emergency and ask for federal aid. But so far, he's declined.

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Newsom Won’t Explain Why Tijuana River Isn’t an Emergency

Recent research suggests governors and presidents have wide discretion under the Stafford Act to send federal aid.

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1/ We’re sad to announce that today is @ryrivard ’s last day at VOSD before he leaves for a new adventure on the East Coast. Ry has done exceptional reporting during his tenure, so we decided to round up some of his best work.

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The University of California system is aware of more than 200 incidents involving police use of force on its campuses in recent years. Yet only two case files have been released publicly despite a landmark transparency law that went into effect last year.

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San Diego police are more likely to stop lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people for reasonable suspicion and more likely to handcuff them compared with cisgender people, according police stop data.

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SDPD Stop Data Shows Disparities in Treatment of LGBT, Transgender People

San Diego police are more likely to stop lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people for reasonable suspicion and more likely to handcuff them compared with cisgender people, according police stop...

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For years, Coleen Cusack has been opposing the city’s use of police to address homelessness and taking the fight to court. Now she’s running for City Council.

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Attorney for Unsheltered San Diegans Wants to Oust Downtown Councilman

Coleen Cusack, a pro-bono attorney who has long opposed the city crackdowns on homeless residents, is seeking the District 3 City Council seat.

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We're teary-eyed proud of @MarioKoran for winning the 2016 San Diego Area Journalist of the Year award.

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This is journalism that informs. This is journalism that matters. And this is journalism worth supporting.

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Yaaassss! @andy_keatts wins the @sdcta 's first-ever Chairman's Golden Watchdog Award for his reporting on @SANDAG . #goldens

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This year, CalChamber placed three of Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez’s bills on its annual Job-Killer List, the most by any individual lawmaker.

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Governments across the region missed a Jan. 31 deadline to apply for up to $61 million in state funds initially set aside for homeless housing projects in San Diego County.

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We analyzed crime data and found that officers have been punishing people on the streets of San Diego for speech they don’t like. Since at least 2013, as far back as the records go, SDPD has written 83 tickets for seditious language.

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SDPD Is Punishing Speech Using a 102-Year-Old City Law

Since 2013, SDPD officers have issued 83 tickets for seditious language. One man says he was cited for singing rap lyrics; another was ticketed inside his own home.

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As homelessness has emerged as the city’s most pressing problem, massive tent encampments have become its lasting signal. But the persistence of encampments even as we expand shelters offer a lesson, if we’re willing to listen.

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Tents Changed Everything About Homelessness. Will San Diego Acknowledge It?

As homelessness has emerged as the city’s most pressing problem, massive tent encampments have become its lasting signal. But the persistence of encampments even as we expand shelters offer a lesson,...

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Measures A and E and the likely ascent of @ToddGloria to the mayor’s office reflect an increasing demand for more dramatic solutions to San Diego’s housing and homelessness crises.

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SDSU is not an island. That may seem obvious, but Gov. Gavin Newsom had to say so explicitly after county supervisors asked the state to exclude SDSU’s COVID cases from the county’s overall numbers.

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A recent analysis found 57,000 of the region’s homes are vacation or second homes that often sit vacant, exacerbating the housing crisis because they’re unavailable to people who live and work here, or would like to.

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Mayor Todd Gloria pledged to lessen the police enforcement affecting homeless San Diegans that soared on Kevin Faulconer’s watch. Three months into his term, not much has changed.

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Here's the story 🎶 of a lovely newsroom... 🎶 Happy holidays from our bunch to yours!

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California politicians shrank our world last month to curb the spread of #COVID19 , and it appears to have caused a drop in both greenhouse gases and harmful pollutants in the air we breathe.

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The local weather service is using some of its strongest warning language ever. Here’s what you need to know

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What San Diego Should Know About Hurricane Hilary

The local weather service is using some of its strongest warning language ever. Here's what you need to know

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San Diego doesn’t have enough homeless shelter beds to meet demand. A new Voice of San Diego analysis of city data reveals just over a third of shelter referrals result in a placement in a typical week.

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Homeless Residents Often Can’t Get the Shelter They Seek

A Voice of San Diego analysis shows nearly two thirds of shelter referrals by outreach workers and police in the city aren’t fulfilled in a typical week.

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How San Diego’s Biggest Developers Swarmed Against SoccerCity

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A La Jolla investor wants to turn the 101 Ash St. tower into 400 apartments, at least 25 percent of which would be reserved for low-income residents.

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Morning Report: 101 Ash Street Apartments?

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria’s top staff revealed Wednesday that they planned to begin exclusive negotiations with a La Jolla investor who plans to gut the beleaguered 101 Ash St. tower and retrofit...

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Morning Report: Jose Luis Perez, a sophomore at San Ysidro High has been forced to make a six-mile walk since @SUHSD drastically slashed bus transportation at the school.

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A review by an unprecedented collaboration of newsrooms, including VOSD, found 630 California police officers convicted of a crime in the last decade.

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Many California Cops Have Kept Their Jobs After Being Convicted of a Crime

A review by an unprecedented collaboration of newsrooms, including Voice of San Diego, found 630 California police officers convicted of a crime in the last decade. Nearly one out of five officers in...

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A homeless camping ban could trigger more frequent and even sustained moves into neighborhoods.

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Morning Report: How a Potential Homeless Camp Crackdown Could Affect Neighborhoods

Yesterday, our Lisa Halverstadt wrote about East Village’s history as the epicenter of homelessness in the region and what a proposed homeless camping ban could mean for homeless and housed residents...

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This year, San Diego Community College District — already the best-paying community college district in the county — increased its minimum wage. Now it matches MIT’s Living Wage figure for San Diego.

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San Diego Community College District Has a New Minimum Wage: $30 an Hour

This year, the San Diego community College District, already the best-paying community college district in the county, increased its minimum wage to be in line with MIT’s Living Wage figure for San...

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Rep. Susan Davis and Morgan Murtaugh about to debate! #Politifest 🇺🇸

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The mayor's office responded to one of our recent stories about San Diego flood victims. Reps said our coverage was “dangerous” and “harmful.”

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‘Dangerous’ and ‘Harmful’: Mayor’s Office Responds to Our Story of Distrust Among Flood Survivors

Our story, “Trust Between Southeastern San Diego Flood Survivors and Local Government Is Dead,” detailed a prevailing narrative among flood survivors.

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It's a hot one today, y'all. San Diego Council Prez Sean Elo-Rivera got candid about the influence of development money on the city’s legislative process.

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San Diego leaders will take a crack at working out their differences on a plan to expand the @SanDiegoAirport and connect it to the trolley once and for all.

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In a shocking declaration, a Sheriff’s employee says she was told to keep quiet about what really happened leading up to a man’s suicide in the Vista jail.

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Understanding the desperation of the people who are fleeing violence in Central America is an essential part of the puzzle. U.S. officials have also made asylum requests more difficult, and now #Tijuana is caught in the middle. Our latest Border Report:

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Assemblyman @ToddGloria has taken control of San Diego’s mayoral race after winning the @sandiegodems ' endorsement last night.

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Like so many other things that go viral, Joseph MacRae’s protest of Chargers owner Dean Spanos articulated something bigger. @jmt619

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We started a new podcast! 🎙️✨ The San Diego 101 Podcast aims to explain the ins and outs of local government, so you can get involved. Tune in to our first episode. ⬇️

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In a new op-ed, three local nonprofit leaders urge the mayor and City Council to consider what’s worked to make San Diegans’ lives better over the past year before making cuts to arts and culture funding.

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Create a Budget Around Our Aspirations, Not Our Limits

Let’s be honest about what’s worked to make San Diegans’ lives better — and what hasn’t.

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8 years

Adult film performer and activist @lovemiali : Porn initiative ‘degrades our work.’ This week's Sacramento Report:

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3 years

Paola Avila, @MayorToddGloria ’s new chief of staff, offers her take on what the city of San Diego can do to bring the binational megaregion to the next level.

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ICYMI: We recently won some awards for our investigative work! 🥂🎉 Here's how you can help us celebrate:

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4 years

We don’t always promise exciting fauna, but we can promise important San Diego news during our new “At Home” series. Catch it live or see the latest here:

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8 years

The November ballot is going to be bananas. @politifest can help. #bananasballot

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A former Escondido resident is voluntarily cleaning park restrooms across the city and documenting the process on her social media in hopes it will inspire more action from city officials.

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She Was Horrified by the State of Park Restrooms. So, She Did Something About it

A former Escondido resident is exposing the city’s dirty park bathrooms to her hundreds of thousands of social media followers in hopes the city will take notice and action.

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3 years

In a new #SanDiego101 explainer, @LisaHalverstadt walks through the different policies in place that contribute to the criminalization of homelessness in San Diego.

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It took a lawsuit and a lot of patience, but eventually our reporters managed to match more than 6,000 death certificates to voter registration records.

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How We Matched Covid Death Certificates to Voter Registration Rolls

It took a lawsuit and a lot of patience, but our reporters managed to match thousands of death certificates to voter registration records.

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4 years

"My family’s experience reporting a San Diego Sheriff’s deputy who bullied us and lied about it underscores why police officers’ versions of events shouldn’t be treated as sacrosanct."

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5 years

More than 80 law enforcement officers working today in California are convicted criminals, with rap sheets that include everything from animal cruelty to manslaughter.

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2 years

San Diegans have said in survey after survey that if the bus were faster, they’d probably ride it. So what stands in the way?

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San Diegans Say, If the Bus Were Faster, I’d Ride It.

San Diegans have said in survey after survey that if the bus were faster, they’d probably ride it. So what stands in the way?

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San Diego City Councilman Sean Elo-Rivera wants to finally nix a costly century-old ordinance that provides free trash pickup for many homeowners.

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2 years

Basketball legend and one of San Diego's biggest boosters, Bill Walton, has sent a series of angry emails to the mayor about the worsening homeless crisis.

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‘You Have Failed, Us and Yourself’ – Bill Walton Has Had It with the Mayor’s Approach to Homeless...

The basketball legend’s frustration with the homeless crisis in San Diego led him to send a series of emails to Mayor Todd Gloria

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One of San Diego's oldest companies, HG Fenton, is blocking a deal to permanently house homeless people in an extended-stay motel in Mission Valley.

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A Wealthy Family's 100-Year-Old Company Is Blocking a Permanent Housing Project for Homeless People

San Diego planned to convert a 140-room motel in Mission Valley into permanent residences. The landowner H.G. Fenton isn’t going to let that happen.

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4 years

County officials say that most of the new coronavirus outbreaks have come from bars and restaurants – and so they have acted to limit the operations of those facilities. But they have not released information about the magnitude of the outbreaks.

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4 years

The County Board of Supervisors might start spending more to address homelessness and other issues now that a Democratic majority is taking the helm for the first time in at least a generation.

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4 years

An unmanned, military-grade drone is scheduled to begin flying over the heads of San Diegans in 2020. It’s part of a test project being run by a local defense contractor which wants to market the drones to police and other public agencies.

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3 years

Nearly 100 homeless San Diegans staying in two Father Joe’s Villages shelters downtown tested positive for coronavirus.

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5 years

“My feet hurt." Jose Luis Perez is one of several #SanYsidro High School students who have to hike up a three-mile hill to get to school every day since @SUHSD decided to cut bus routes. Here's his story:

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"I have yet to meet a former sex worker who freely chose that work without anyone exploiting a vulnerability to get them into it," writes Jamie Quient in a VOSD op-ed.

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