Voices from Frontier: Remembering a Forgotten Community
Bob Braswell moved to San Diego from Alabama when he was in fifth grade. It was the early 1950s, and he was just in time to start the school year at Midway Elementary in the Frontier community, where,...
View ArticleSix Years Later, SDSU’s Stadium Promise Is Fulfilled
In January 2017, a group of investors that came to call themselves SoccerCity made a verbal agreement with then San Diego State University President Elliot Hirshman. They had only days left before...
View ArticleAsylum Panic Comes for Schools; Here’s Some Perspective
For a five-minute segment, Monday, KUSI’s anchor, Lauren Phinney brought on Mark Powell, a former member of the San Diego County Board of Education, to discuss the impact a looming immigration surge...
View ArticleTom Penn, New SD MLS Chief, Sees a Soccer Campus on the Horizon
The official announcement that Major League Soccer was expanding to San Diego came with some unexpected twists, despite being well-publicized in advance. Padres star Manny Machado was a surprise guest...
View ArticleHer Work as a Homeless Advocate Almost Cost Her Everything
On any given night in February of 2015, Vanessa Graziano could be found in the kitchen she shared with about 100 other women and families. She was probably making spaghetti or chili with cornbread,...
View ArticleNewspapers Are Marching Toward a Cliff; The U-T Thought its Owner Would Build...
When Patrick Soon-Shiong, Los Angeles’ richest man, bought the San Diego Union-Tribune as part of a package with the Los Angeles Times, he came to speak to anxious and excited employees at the U-T’s...
View ArticleThey Were Here, They Were Queer: San Diego’s Historic LGBTQ Sites
San Diego was home to same-sex couples as far back as the 19th century, but it wasn’t until around World War II that gays and lesbians started to come out of the shadows and find places to call home....
View ArticleVoices of the Voters: Housing and Homelessness Is Top of Mind
Voters turned out Tuesday to cast their ballots for San Diego County District 4 Supervisor race. Former County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher resigned after a former employee of the Metropolitan Transit...
View ArticleA Business Community Is Starting Over After City Severs Ties with Business...
After years of effort to get the businesses in southeastern San Diego as well organized as some others across the city, there’s been another setback: San Diego has cut ties with the nonprofit charged...
View ArticleFrom Speeding to Nerf Gun Battles: Why One Neighborhood Is Fed Up with a San...
When Terrence Morrissey moved to Altadena in 2021, he expected it would be a quiet community. Then, one afternoon he heard the roars of engines up and down his street. He stepped outside and saw what...
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