Kori Suzuki
South Bay and Imperial Valley Reporter at KPBS-TV (San Diego, CA)
@kpbs Public Media reporter covering South Bay San Diego & the Imperial Valley • California Local Fellow • grown @washingtonpost @seattletimes @kalw 🌁🇯🇵
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20 hours ago |
kpbs.org | Kori Suzuki
As the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers plow ahead with their efforts to reshape immigration, trade and environmental policy, officials in Imperial County have struck a cautious tone. At their regular meeting Tuesday, the five-member county Board of Supervisors met with lobbyists from Paragon Governmental Relations, the firm that pushes the county’s priorities in Washington. They discussed the federal government’s latest moves ahead of the county’s annual upcoming budget talks.
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3 days ago |
kpbs.org | Kori Suzuki |Lara McCaffrey |Marielena Castellanos
The 2025 District 1 Supervisorial General Election is right around the corner. Do you know who you're voting for? If not, scroll down to play an interactive quiz that will help you find out where Board of Supervisor District 1 candidates stand on issues that matter to you. Answer six multiple choice questions covering topics from immigration policies to cost of living. Once you've completed the quiz, you can explore which candidates answered similarly to you.
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2 weeks ago |
kpbs.org | Kori Suzuki
In the last days of his administration, President Joe Biden created a new national monument on the border of Riverside and Imperial County. The Chuckwalla National Monument granted sweeping federal protections to over 600,000 acres of high desert to the east of the Salton Sea. It was a major victory for the six tribes and dozens of environmental justice groups in Southern California who had campaigned for the monument.
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2 weeks ago |
kpbs.org | Kori Suzuki
The Imperial County Board of Supervisors voted this week to publicly rebuke their chief accountant and top auditor, sending another tremor through the county government. The five-member Board unanimously approved a vote of “no confidence” in county Auditor-Controller Karina Alvarez. County officials accused Alvarez of mismanaging her office, delaying key financial reports and jeopardizing at least one federal grant.
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3 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Kori Suzuki |Zac Farber
This story was originally published by High Country News. Violence had broughtthe old man here, and violence would take him away. The blue mountains rose as he walked through the desert in the fading evening light. The powdery soil of an ancient lakebed sank beneath his feet. The man’s name was James Wakasa, and he was a prisoner of the United States. It was April 1943, and the world was at war. Sixteen months earlier, Japanese planes attacked an American naval base in Hawai’i.
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