
Kristen Taketa
Accountability Reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune
Watchdog/accountability reporter for @sdut. past: @stltoday. L.A. born n raised 日系アメリカ人. email is: kristen.taketa(at)https://t.co/eszlcBqko5
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4 days ago |
sgvtribune.com | Kristen Taketa
For five years, Eric Shirley taught home-school students for a small California charter school network called Elite Academic Academy. He left in 2023, he said, because of several things he found fishy about Elite’s administration. Among them: Elite’s CEO Meghan Freeman lives in a mountain resort town in Montana and gets paid more than $380,000 in salary and benefits each year to serve 1,800 students.
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1 week ago |
mercurynews.com | Kristen Taketa
For five years, Eric Shirley taught home-school students for a small California charter school network called Elite Academic Academy. He left in 2023, he said, because of several things he found fishy about Elite’s administration. Among them: Elite’s CEO Meghan Freeman lives in a mountain resort town in Montana and gets paid more than $380,000 in salary and benefits each year to serve 1,800 students.
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1 week ago |
sandiegouniontribune.com | Teri Figueroa |Kristen Taketa
Un joven Jonathan Lucas, el que aún estudiaba medicina en la década de 1990, se inclinaba por convertirse en médico de familia, tal vez incluso en cirujano. Pero algo en la ciencia forense y la investigación de campo lo intrigaba. La patología, se daría cuenta, era su camino. Su enfoque está en los muertos.
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2 weeks ago |
sandiegouniontribune.com | Kristen Taketa
For five years, Eric Shirley taught home-school students for a small California charter school network called Elite Academic Academy. He left in 2023, he said, because of several things he found fishy about Elite’s administration. Among them: Elite’s CEO Meghan Freeman lives in a mountain resort town in Montana and gets paid more than $380,000 in salary and benefits each year to serve 1,800 students.
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2 weeks ago |
sandiegouniontribune.com | Kristen Taketa
Miles de edificios de apartamentos y escuelas de San Diego tienen pendiente la inspección anual de seguridad contra incendios, según lo exige la ley estatal. Más de 2700 propiedades que el Departamento de Bomberos y Rescate de San Diego debe inspeccionar anualmente no lo han hecho desde al menos 2023, según descubrió The San Diego Union-Tribune tras revisar los datos de inspección obtenidos mediante una solicitud de registro público.
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RT @robnikolewski: A very good story from my Union-Tribune colleague Kristen Taketa on the effect of power shutoffs for folks living in San…

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