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City Park Renamed After Neal Petties, NFL Star and Hero to Mountain View’s Kids
Former SDSU and NFL football star Neal Petties in 2022. Neal Petties was a neighborhood hero and his neighbors were gathered at a San Diego Parks and Recreation Board meeting this month to urge that...
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Solicitor General Backs Poway Unified Trustees in Lawsuit over Blocking...
Poway Unified School District Headquarters. Nineteen years ago Facebook was born. Since then the new world it created has been the subject of controversy and lawsuits, perhaps none more important than...
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Southcrest Field Will Be Renamed After Shelley Curtis White, a Legendary...
Little League umpire Shelley Curtis White A San Diego community is celebrating one of its most famous residents, baseball umpire Shelley Curtis White, by naming his workplace after him. It’s not a...
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Controversial Bill Ending Rule for Doctors to Report Domestic Violence Faces...
San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott opposes Assembly Bill 1028. Photo by Chris Stone On average, 13 women in the San Diego region are murdered every year because of domestic violence. That’s...
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Bill to Make Sex Trafficking of Minors a CA ‘3 Strikes’ Law Faces Crucial...
An officer talks with a sex trafficking victim. Courtesy FBI A bill that would make sex trafficking of minors a strike under California’s “Three Strikes” law heads to the Assembly Appropriations...
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Mission Beach Women’s Club Steps Up to Support Enlisted Women with Care Packages
Care packages from Support Our Servicewomen. Several years ago the Mission Beach Women’s Club’s Sarah Mattinson was pondering what the club membership might do to help military personnel here. The...
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City Leaders Celebrate $195,000 Grant to Replace Statue Honoring ‘The Black...
Jeffrey Hayes cleans the base of the “Black Family” statue. File photo Jeffrey Hayes is testament to the tenet that one person can make a difference. What he accomplished was the reason for a...
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Forensic Artist Inspired at Comic-Con Shows Police How to Reconstruct Faces...
The reconstructed face of the victim. The body was found washed ashore in Imperial Beach in 1995, but no one could identify the remains. Labeled a John Doe, his skull’s 3D images were sent to NCMEC,...
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20 Years Ago This Week, the Massive Cedar Fire Tested Firefighters, Residents...
The Cedar Fire crosses Interstate 15, forcing drivers to turn away. Photo via Wikimedia Commons The Cedar Fire was a game changer. For the San Diego region, it would become a shared time of fear and...
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Proposed 2024 Ballot Measure Would Close Loopholes in California Public...
The California state Capitol building in Sacramento. File photo courtesy of Sen. Toni Atkins’ office It was a milestone moment in open government in 1968 when then California Gov. Ronald Reagan signed...
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Antisemitic Callers Overwhelm La Mesa City Council Meeting with Hate Speech
La Mesa City Hall. Photo courtesy of the city What began as a typical La Mesa City Council meeting this week to weigh local issues morphed into an antisemitic diatribe by largely anonymous...
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10 Years after Ferguson, Body-Worn Police Cameras Reduce Use of Force, Foster...
An image from a body-worn camera during San Diego Police action. Courtesy SDPD Fifteen years after the first police department in San Diego County experimented with body-worn cameras, and 10 years...
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Former Journalists Kate Callen, Jodi Cleesattle Set to Make News as Political...
Kate Callen (left) and Jodi Cleesattle. Campaign photos Politics and journalism have always had a symbiotic relationship. Whether that’s good or bad depends on who you are talking to. As we approach...
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La Mesa City Council to End Public Comments by Phone and Zoom After...
An anonymous caller spews antisemitic hate on the phone during a La Mesa City Council meeting. Image from video After its last meeting was disrupted by antisemitic hate speech, the La Mesa City...
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Sen. Grove Increases Pressure on Sex Trafficking of Minors with Bill Making...
Sen. Shannon Grove with co-authors of her new bill. Courtesy of her office Following the success of her bill targeting human traffickers, Sen. Shannon Grove has introduced companion bi-partisan...
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Outgoing City Atty. Mara Elliott Says Ethics Commission Needs Greater...
The entrance to San Diego City Hall. Photo by Chris Stone The San Diego City Council created the Ethics Commission more than two decades ago to assure the public that our city leaders, administrators...
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On Sunshine Week, San Diego’s Open Records System Is Failing
Stacks of newspapers. Courtesy Pixabay / Pexels This is Sunshine Week, a celebration of democracy and the transparency that keeps it alive in this country — and you don’t just have to be a journalist...
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City Atty. Mara Elliott Calls for ‘Office of Transparency’ to Speed Public...
City Atty. Mara Elliott speaks to the City Council on Wednesday. Image from City TV San Diego City Council members expressed initial support Wednesday for a new Office of Transparency designed to...
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Start of Little League Was Special at Ballfield Named for Legendary Local...
Little League coaches and fans at Shelley Curtis Wright field. Photo by JW August Shelley Curtis White was a “no-nonsense kind of guy,” said family and friends who had gathered to celebrate the...
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Alvarez Bill Would Mandate Family Access to Loved Ones in Long-Term Nursing...
Lynn Dedrick’s mother Petey had Alzheimer’s and during the pandemic thought her daughter had forgotten her. There are 250,000 California residents in long-term nursing homes. Their health and safety...
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