1+ day, 12+ hour ago Alan Berube is senior vice president at the'Policy & Innovation Center'(PIC), a think tank and social impact incubator headquartered in San Diego. In this new monthly column, DC Explained, Berube will provide insights to help residents understand the fast-moving national…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago As a deadly opioid crisis raged in San Diego, many people who wanted to stop using couldn't get help. There were only about 70 county-contracted detox beds for the hundreds of thousands of San Diegans with Medi-Cal insurance " and not one…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago The past few years, the number of San Diegans becoming homeless for the first time has eclipsed the number moving into homes. New data from the Regional Task Force on Homelessness shows the math problem central to the crisis narrowed…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago It's'the kind of word you can taste. The kind'that leaves a thin film of antipathy on your tongue.' While the sentiment'emerged'from the predictable grumblings of a tourist town,'it betrays a sort of desperate, grasping nativism. After all, the family…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago Every month, a group meets to debate what should be done with our toilet water. Right, now they're arguing about the fact that there might not be enough for everybody to reuse." Three years ago, I wrote about how the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago About 15 years ago, San Diego Unified set out on a mission to ensure there were quality schools in every neighborhood. The initiative " known as Vision 2020 " sought to end achievement gaps and increase the percentage of students who attended district schools…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago More often than meeting people who were strongly in favor or against redistricting, I met people who either had not heard of Proposition 50 or didn't understand it. Others simply felt" disillusioned by politics. They didn't believe that politicians, no matter…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago After years of struggling to hire and retain police officers, Mayor Todd Gloria says it may be time to consider a new approach to closing the shortage: a merger with the Harbor Police. "We have a Harbor Police department that…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago On Friday, an appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that voters did approve a hotel-room tax five years ago." Measure C is a 2020 ballot measure that called for an increase to the city of San Diego's transient occupancy tax,…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago The city of San Diego's chief financial officer, Matt Vespi, is headed to the Port of San Diego." Vespi will be joining the Port as its new chief administrative officer and is slated to start his new role on Nov....