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Little Italy group, city of San Diego at ‘stalemate’ over bike lane
This story was originally published by our partner The San Diego Sun. Sign up for its newsletter. An unfinished bike lane project that passes in front of Little Italyâs 100-year-old Our Lady of the Rosary Church is still unsatisfactory to locals despite recent reconfigurations by the city. The church lost its long-held curb access in April when a two-way cycle track was drawn onto State Street.
LAUSD, California school districts seek money, changes to social media apps in lawsuits
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Meta, Google, TikTok and other social media companies could soon be compelled to fund student mental health services and redesign features alleged to encourage compulsive use if school districts prevail in a growing wave of lawsuits.
San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter still struggling with illegal sidewalk food vendors
This story was originally published by our partner The San Diego Sun. Sign up for its newsletter. Merchants in the Gaslamp Quarter have been frustrated for years by illegal sidewalk food vendors. Beyond the matter of legal operation, people are concerned vendors are health and safety risks to customers and are dumping grease in city gutters, which lead into the ocean untreated. “It’s a bad look,” Gaslamp Quarter Association Executive Director Michael Trimble said.
Amphibious Squadron 8 Holds Change of Command
NORFOLK, Va. - Amphibious Squadron Eight (PHIBRON 8) held a change of command ceremony aboard Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) at Naval Station Norfolk, June 26. During the ceremony, Capt. Christopher M. Farricker was relieved by Capt. Ethan M. Rule as commodore. “To my family who has come from all over the country, thank you,” said Farricker. “It means the world to me to see you here, in person, or watching this live.
Loss of parking revenue slashes two-thirds of East Village Association budget
This story was originally published by our partner The San Diego Sun. Sign up for its newsletter. The East Village Association is working to right its budget after years of losing parking meter revenue. Cuts to the board’s administrative and public relations contracts may be the solution, staff say. For nearly three decades, a percentage of fees collected by parking meters was allocated to community parking districts to invest in parking, traffic safety and mobility projects in their areas.
California lawmakers look to settle turf war over community college bachelor’s degrees
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. It soon could become much easier for California community colleges to create new bachelor’s degree programs. The state’s community colleges, which primarily offer certificates and two-year associate degrees, are permitted to create bachelor’s degrees that fill workforce needs, but existing law allows them to do so only if they don’t duplicate what’s offered at California’s four-year universities.
How schools in San Diego County drove more students to apply for financial aid
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. As California seeks to leave fewer financial aid dollars on the table for high school graduates, schools in San Diego County are combining persistence with persuasion to get more students to apply for aid. The results, so far, have been promising.
San Diego’s Little Italy sign will come down for repairs after truck crash
This story was originally published by our partner The San Diego Sun. Sign up for its newsletter. Donât panic if the iconic Little Italy neighborhood sign isnât overhead the next time youâre driving north on India Street. In late January, the sign was damaged by a Waste Management truck. In June, the Little Italy Association discussed plans to take the sign down for roughly two weeks for repair.
Sixth graders graduated. Kindergarteners blew bubbles. Then the school closed.
Why this matters The Imperial Beach school closure comes as many districts across San Diego County see declining enrollment. As sixth graders at Central Elementary in Imperial Beach lined up to receive their certificates of promotion on Friday, some of the younger students on campus blew bubbles, munched on snacks, and hung out with friends as teachers packed up their belongings inside classrooms once filled with color. The campus looked like most do on the last day of school.
Instalarán parquímetros en San Ysidro. Aquí te decimos dónde
Los funcionarios de la ciudad de San Diego planean instalar parquímetros en San Ysidro a partir de este verano, según informaron durante una reunión con las partes interesadas este mes. La ciudad planea instalar 286 parquímetros en las siguientes zonas: Bulevar Este San Ysidro entre Carretera Border Village y Camino De La Plaza, ambos lados. 67 espacios de estacionamiento. Carretera Border Village entre Bulevar Este San Ysidro (norte) y Bulevar Este San Ysidro (sur), en ambos sentidos.
How San Diego’s deal on Balboa Park parking, trash fee came together
Why this matters The city of San Diego’s trash fees and imposition of paid parking in Balboa Park were deeply unpopular. An unusual sequence of events from unlikely players led to an agreement on both. The path to the agreement that cuts San Diego’s deeply unpopular trash pickup fee and eliminates the paid parking program at Balboa Park began weeks ago on the other side of the country, with a tap on the shoulder. The tap came from City Council President Joe LaCava.
Tribes want Cal State to return Native remains and artifacts. Here’s why it’s not so easy
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. All but one Cal State campus have Native American remains and cultural items that federal and state laws require them to return to tribes. In many cases, the process has been slow. Though the size of their collections varies, campuses like Cal Poly Humboldt and San Francisco State have made progress in returning human remains and cultural items, with Sacramento State having returned most of its Native collections.
Should a California union dictate how clinics spend money? Employers sue to block ballot measure
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s billionaires are not the only ones fighting back against the state’s largest health workers union this election season. Now the clinics are too.
Schools across California face uncertainty as layoffs loom
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. For many educators and support staff, this is a tense period of uncertainty as they wait to hear whether they will have jobs next school year. More than 2,400 preliminary layoff notices have been issued for teaching positions, according to the California Teachers Association, and more than 3,300 have been sent to classified positions represented by the California School Employees Association.
Plans to fix gaps in Newsom’s mental health court reopen divisions over involuntary care
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to help thousands of homeless Californians when he launched a new mental health court in 2023. So far, it has struggled to help the sickest, most vulnerable people, but a Southern California lawmaker is carrying two proposals this year that she hopes will fix gaps in the program.
Why getting more California students into top UCs carries a big cost to taxpayers
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In 2022, faced with mounting criticism from California parents and students who couldn’t get into the state’s three premier public universities, legislators and UC officials struck a deal.
These San Diego kids grew up with the sewage crisis. They want more people to know about it.
Why this matters For decades, billions of gallons of untreated sewage has poured into the Tijuana River Valley, impacting communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border that must live with the unresolved public health crisis. Eric Camberos used to walk along the Imperial Beach shoreline with his mother every weekend, collecting seashells and venturing into the water. Their family spent years living a couple of miles from whatâs known as the Saturn Boulevard hotspot.
California’s largest and most polluted lake gets a new conservancy
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California has launched the Salton Sea Conservancy, a new state agency to oversee restoration, manage habitat and improve air quality at the deteriorating inland lake. On Friday Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the appointment of a 20-member conservancy board, with members from state agencies, Riverside and Imperial County governments, local water districts, tribal groups and public organizations.
California HOA triumphs over ADU law
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Adam Hardesty fought the HOA and the HOA won. In a legal decision issued last week, a San Diego County judge ruled against the Carlsbad condo owner who tried to convert his garage into a rental unit over the objections of his homeowners association.
CA governor pushes for permanent funding of community schools
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. In late February, students at Coarsegold Elementary School in Madera County roamed around a classroom that’s like no other on campus. One student jumped on a mini-trampoline, releasing pent-up energy. Others settled into a rocking chair or on beanbags to read books. Another wore headphones as she constructed blocks. This is Coarsegold’s Zen Den.
How license plate readers are changing life on the CA border
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. On a cracked two-lane road on the eastern edge of San Diego County, James Cordero eased his Jeep onto the shoulder after something caught his eye. It looked like an abandoned trailer. Inside he found a hidden camera feeding a vast surveillance network that logs the license plate of every driver passing through this stretch of remote backcountry between San Diego and the Arizona state line.
Why these CA counties are directly funding immigrant legal defense
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. With the Trump administration escalating immigration enforcement, a number of California municipal and county governments are setting aside public money to help immigrants and rapid response networks build legal defenses. San Francisco and Alameda County are among the latest to designate additional money for immigrants to defend themselves against deportation.
Southwestern, others get new bachelor’s degree programs
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Moorpark College in Ventura County will offer a program in cyberdefense. At San Diego Mesa College, students will be able to get a degree as a physical therapy assistant. And at Southwestern College in San Diego County, students can study urban planning in the CaliBaja region and earn a degree in transborder environmental design.
In San Diego, Newsom blasts immigration crackdown
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gov. Gavin Newsom touted California’s drug interdiction efforts during a San Diego press conference Monday that contrasted the state’s public safety efforts with combative tactics by President Donald Trump’s administration. Since 2021, Newsom said, National Guard troops have seized 34,357 pounds of fentanyl worth an estimated $506 million at California ports of entry.
Immigration arrests surge by 1,500% in San Diego
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. While the Trump administration’s immigration blitz hit Midwestern cities like Chicago and Minneapolis, a quieter escalation unfolded in San Diego late last year with agents making thousands of arrests in and around the city. Government data analyzed by CalMatters show nearly a 1500% increase in arrests for May to October compared to the same time period a year earlier.
Newsom touts gains against EBT theft
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Two years after a wave of public benefit thefts that left low-income Californians scrambling to pay rent and afford food each month, Gov. Gavin Newsom is touting a significant decline in the reported amount stolen. The thefts still amounted to more than $4 million a month last fall in both the CalFresh food assistance and CalWorks cash welfare benefits programs, according to a press release from Newsom’s office.
Exam AZ-801: Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services, 2nd Edition (Video), 2nd Edition
Lesson 1: Implement Core OS Security 1.1. Configure and manage Exploit Protection 1.2. Configure and manage Windows Defender Application Control 1.3. Configure and manage Windows Defender Credential Guard 1.4. Configure SmartScreen 1.5. Implement operating system security by using Group Policies 1.6. Manage Windows Server security baseline by using OSConfig 1.7 Configure Secured-core Server features for high-security workloads Lesson 2: Secure Local Accounts and Passwords 2.1. Implement...
Newsom K-12 school proposal would shift more power to governor
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday proposed paring down the responsibilities of California’s elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction and shifting more power to the State Board of Education.
How will Newsom address deficit in his final year as CA governor?
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In 2019, first-year Gov. Gavin Newsom inherited a state flush with cash. With a $21.4 billion budget surplus to play with, an ambitious Newsom invested billions in affordable housing, child care and health care expansion while paying down the state’s debt and shoring up reserves. The next governor won’t be that lucky.
Why CARE Court has struggled to help homeless Californians
This story was originally published by CalMatters and Catchlight. Every time Jennifer Farrell got close to her brother, he slipped through her fingers. As she walked the railroad tracks on the border of San Lorenzo and Hayward last month, searching for signs of her homeless younger sibling, she thought she caught a glimpse of him on a discarded mattress. But it turned out to be someone else. Store clerks in a nearby strip mall and the groundskeeper at a local park all knew her brother.
Why families who celebrated Newsom’s CARE Court feel let down
This story was originally published by CalMatters and Catchlight. Boom. Ronda Deplazes had just gotten out of the shower and placed curlers in her long blond hair when she heard something slam against her front door. Boom.
Community college bachelor’s degrees closer to approval
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. A new analysis appears likely to bolster the attempts of some California community colleges to start offering bachelor’s degrees, despite protests from state universities that claim their own programs would be harmed.
New CA law rewrites car-buying rules with return policy
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California lawmakers made major changes to the state’s car-buying rules this year, including a controversial rewrite of the state law that allows buyers to get their money back if they are sold a defective vehicle and a right to return a used vehicle within three days.
New CA law requires folic acid in tortilla products
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Tortillas sold in California are going to have a new ingredient, one that’s intended to help nurture healthy infants. Starting Jan. 1, a new law will take effect requiring most tortillas and corn masa products sold in the state to contain folic acid, a vitamin that’s important to infant health.
San Diego schools hit with new ‘lower earnings’ federal alert
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Starting this month, prospective students considering any of 132 California colleges, including cosmetology schools, a music conservatory, and even Barstow Community College, will see a new warning label about alumni earnings when they apply for federal financial aid.
CA teachers can ‘out’ transgender students to parents
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. A federal judge issued a ruling Monday that strikes down California school policies aimed at preventing schools from revealing a student’s gender identity to their parents.
Amid ICE raids, a Latino Christmas tradition proceeds with caution
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. On Friday night, organizers of a community holiday festival in San Marcos were busy planning a neighborhood procession and readying trays of tamales for guests. At the same time, they were preparing security to watch for ICE activity in the largely low-income, Latino area of North County San Diego.
How community reporting fueled our local journalism in 2025
Jennifer Bowman here. I’m delighted to reflect on our reporting this year that centered our community. More than ever, we’re producing stories not just about our neighbors — we’re doing the journalism for them, and importantly, with them. In 2025, we launched Amplify South Bay, a newsletter and community-powered project focused on bringing much-needed hyperlocal accountability journalism to southern San Diego County.
More adults return to college in California as inflation, job fears rise
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. If you want to gauge the health of California’s economy, start with its community colleges. “When the economy is doing well, our enrollments are down, and when the economy is in a tough stretch or in a recession, we see our enrollments go up,” said Chris Ferguson, an executive vice chancellor with the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, which oversees all of the state’s 116 community colleges.
How Paloma Aguirre, now elected, is battling TJ River crisis
Hours after a November storm, the Tijuana River flooded a grove of trees in Imperial Beach, gushed through a row of culverts and exploded into mounds of fetid foam. This is ground zero for the contaminated river, which sickens thousands of people in southern San Diego County.
California is about to cut power company profits to historic lows. Your bill will barely drop
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. With California electric rates stuck at nearly the highest in the nation, the state’s utility regulator is poised to lower the payout shareholders can receive from California’s three large investor-owned power companies.
Celebrating a religious or cultural holiday on school days, explained
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Students are wrapping up their semesters and slowly lapsing into holiday mode. But, as some families come together to celebrate federal and state-recognized holidays, others participate in religious and cultural celebrations that take place on school days, raising questions about how to ensure students can participate in rituals and cultural celebrations while keeping up with their schoolwork.
Turkish immigrant called to San Diego ICE office fears deportation
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A San Diego pedicab driver who fled Turkey after being tortured because of his religious beliefs is the latest among hundreds of people who have been arrested across California at routine immigration check-ins, according to advocates, his attorneys, and his wife. Idris Demirtas, 25, sought asylum in El Paso in December 2022 and was legally paroled into the United States that same month.
How schools in San Diego County improved suicide prevention
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Schools across California may be at risk of losing social workers and counselors due to federal cuts, but in San Diego County, they are using a $7 million state grant to help shape the fight against youth suicide.
Here's how much UC tuition will increase
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The University of California has renewed its policy of annual tuition hikes today after the UC Board of Regents voted 13 to 3 to approve the measure, despite fierce opposition from undergraduates. Broadly, what undergraduates will expect to pay for tuition doesn’t change once they enroll.
Cal State salaries for executives could increase under new plan
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California State University’s trustees will vote tomorrow on whether to increase how much the system’s 22 campus presidents and other senior executives earn, potentially paving the way for up to 15% in annual incentive-based raises paid for by philanthropic funds and base salaries that reflect how much presidents at similar universities earn.
Fewer international students enrolling at US colleges
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. New international students enrolling at U.S. colleges declined sharply this fall, a concerning development for universities that rely on those students for research, tuition revenue and the diversity they bring to campus culture. It could, however, create more space for U.S. residents at those campuses.
More development coming to California's coast?
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Bone-colored bluffs and jagged cliffs line the Monterey shoreline where chalky sand meets redwoods. Its rugged coastline, including beloved destinations such as Big Sur, is well-known California iconography protected by the California Coastal Act for nearly 50 years.
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The clock is ticking down to a federal deadline Tuesday for California and six other Western states to reach the broad strokes of a deal portioning out supplies from the parched Colorado River.
CA Head Start programs face uncertainty as federal funds paused
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Four Head Start programs serving nearly 1,000 of California’s most vulnerable children will not receive their annual federal funding on Saturday because of the U.S. government shutdown. One of the programs has already closed temporarily.
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