Labor unions are not letting up on their pressure on county supervisors to consider Cindy Chavez, a Santa Clara County supervisor, for the top job as chief administrative officer of the county of San Diego. Chavez used to run the South Bay Labor Council. They’re planning a large rally led...

Last month, I wrote about the competing state tax measures voters will see on the November ballot. And now, there’s more. There are conflicting measures on LGBTQ rights, including one which would enshrine marriage equality in the state constitution, and another that could impose limits on transgender students. The...

Betsy Hall stood at the front of a classroom at Johnson Magnet School in Emerald Hills. She led her pupils, who sat in small groups at circular tables, through chapters of “Uncovering the Logic of English.” The book uses systematic phonics techniques, in part, to lay out simple rules for reading and speaking English.

At 10:55 a.m. on Tuesday, a chime rang over the loudspeaker at Logan Memorial Educational Campus. “Attention students,” a young voice said, crackling with distortion, “we have a walkout at 11:00 a.m.”. Minutes later, students flooded into the quad. Their numbers grew into the hundreds before they walked...

In 2015, we sent San Diego Unified School District a public records request for documents related to an educator we had been investigating whom former students had accused of sexually harassing and assaulting them. The district provided next to nothing in response. We worked with district officials for the next...

The state says Mayor Todd Gloria’s team needs to dig deeper into the property he wants to make into a mega-shelter, citing concerns there could be unknown contamination from a shuttered chemical plant next door. California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control says it will work with the city to...

The sad reality of local music scenes is that for every band that bursts out into the wider world, there are dozens of excellent ones that never make it out of the domed ecosystem of their hometown. They toil in obscurity for years, become mainstays at places like the Casbah but not much more or burn up in the atmosphere on attempted liftoff.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, a longtime pillar of the community that’s often seen as the arts and culture hub of North County. Since 1994, the Center has offered events, workshops, holiday celebrations, concerts, theater productions, gallery shows and more...

Look familiar? We pulled this post from the Morning Report. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to stay up to date on the latest news. Click here. Many of the programs former city councilmember Monica Montgomery Steppe championed as a member of the San Diego City Council are on the chopping block in the mayor’s proposed budget — and she has something to say about it.

Look familiar? We pulled this post from the Morning Report. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to stay up to date on the latest news. Click here. The San Diego City Council had a lengthy closed-door discussion Monday on Mayor Todd Gloria’s mega shelter proposal and ended its meeting without any public announcements.

Many of the programs former city councilmember Monica Montgomery Steppe championed as a member of the San Diego City Council are on the chopping block in the mayor’s proposed budget — and she has something to say about it. “I cannot remain silent in the face of a...

Look familiar? We pulled this from the Politics Report, a Voice of San Diego member exclusive newsletter. Become a member and subscribe to the newsletter here. I’ve had several people ask me about the city’s Historical Resources Board and staff review of whether the Pechanga Arena is historically significant. So I was glad the Union-Tribune explained it well. In short, Midway Rising, which plans to redevelop all the nearly 50 acres under and around the arena, has to study the historic impact of their plans just like they must evaluate the environmental impact.

Look familiar? We pulled this from the Politics Report, a Voice of San Diego member exclusive newsletter. Become a member and subscribe to the newsletter here. The ongoing war between public power proponents and San Diego Gas & Electric looked more like a battle between the municipalization advocates and union labor Thursday.

Look familiar? We pulled this from the Politics Report, a Voice of San Diego member exclusive newsletter. Become a member and subscribe to the newsletter here. Labor leaders have taken a major interest in the drawn-out choice of the county of San Diego’s new chief administration officer and many of them were furious Friday when news leaked that supervisors had decided not to advance the candidacy of Cindy Chavez, a supervisor on the board of Santa Clara County and the former leader of the South Bay Labor Council.

Labor leaders have taken a major interest in the drawn-out choice of the county of San Diego’s new chief administration officer and many of them were furious Friday when news leaked that supervisors had decided not to advance the candidacy of Cindy Chavez, a supervisor on the board of Santa Clara County and the former leader of the South Bay Labor Council.

State Farm is cutting property insurance coverage in California and won’t renew policies for 72,000 properties throughout the state, including more than 2,000 in San Diego County. In San Diego County, the company plans to eliminate half its coverage to the affluent community of Rancho Santa Fe, denying renewals...

An effort to raise taxes to fix San Diego’s crumbling and clogged stormwater system took a step toward the November ballot Thursday. The city of San Diego’s Rules Committee unanimously directed city staff to bring a recommendation back in June on how to tax properties based on square footage of surfaces that don’t absorb water (like concrete driveways or parking lots) to raise money for the stormwater system.

Mayor Todd Gloria’s office wants the city’s Housing Commission to come up with $15 million to help plug the city’s budget deficit and minimize cuts to homeless services. Yet Gloria’s team doesn’t know where the money’s going to come from. Housing agency officials aren’t...

Look familiar? We pulled this post from the Morning Report. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to stay up to date on the latest news. Click here. This week, the executive committee of the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council approved a resolution in support of Cindy Chavez, a Santa Clara county supervisor, and her application to be the new chief administrative officer. The proposed resolution will now go to the full group of delegates that represent all the unions within the Labor Council. It follows a similar resolution by the San Diego County Democratic Party.

Look familiar? We pulled this post from the Morning Report. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to stay up to date on the latest news. Click here. The San Diego City Council is set to have a closed-door discussion next week on the cost and terms of Mayor Todd Gloria’s proposal to lease a Middletown warehouse and make it a 1,000-bed homeless shelter.