Sam Schulz

For years San Diego's Think Blue campaign urged people to protect waterways. But its new ads send a new message: the stormwater system “needs significant investment.” It’s awfully similar to what the Measure E campaign is pushing, @UTDavidGarrick reports: https://t.co/nSmIu99pfy

RT @kellylynndavis: Keith Bach’s death in a San Diego jail from diabetic ketoacidosis was ruled a homicide due to medical neglect. Now his…

JOB: I'm hiring a reporter to cover education & youth in San Diego County for the @sdut! It's a great beat with lots of opportunities for enterprise, investigations, features & more. Get info (including $$) & apply: https://t.co/5ZLffylOCc Questions? Holler. #journalismjobs

Incredibly pleased that @Kristen_Taketa will soon expand her investigative reporting well beyond the education beat as our new Watchdog reporter. Her @sdut readers (& colleagues, & editors!) are lucky to have her holding San Diego institutions accountable. Read more & share tips:

Kristen Taketa @Kristen_Taketa

Haven't been on X much lately, but some news: I'm leaving the education beat and becoming @sdut's new watchdog reporter alongside the esteemed @SDUTmcdonald. I'm grateful to everyone who has entrusted me with their stories and followed my schools coverage throughout the years.

This might be my favorite kind of @UTDavidGarrick story: the kind that ferrets out an obscure, years-old policy that stands to have 9-figure impacts on city spending — plus the loophole that explains why the people who ought to be talking about it aren't https://t.co/LG9p7GcpVS

Is UCSD really 'soulless?' @grobbins spoke with dozens of students (plus the chancellor) about what life there is & isn't — & what they wish it were. A great read & smart look at growing pains & a culture gap as @UCSanDiego hits a record 45k enrollment. https://t.co/NoswKwi4Vj

RT @MichaelSmolens: A really interesting take by @Kristen_Taketa that also includes a how-to on detecting when AI is being used.

"To watch as real info is overwhelmed by crank theories ... is to confront 2 alarming facts: 1, that a durable ecosystem exists to ensconce citizens in an alternate reality, & 2, that the people consuming & amplifying those lies are not helpless dupes but willing participants."

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel

they let me write the headline https://t.co/cMDGFs49Ve

"Drivers are supposed to be paid even for the time they spend between trips. But Uber and Lyft found a money-saving loophole: Simply prevent them from logging into the apps, erasing some of their working time from the record." What an investigation. https://t.co/UExNp7nWyR

The homeless population along the San Diego River just hit a record — and per @BCunninghamN, "the increase was largely found in the city of San Diego." Just over a year ago, the city began enforcing its controversial encampment crackdown, pushing homeless people out of downtown.

The San Diego Union-Tribune @sdut

Homelessness along the San Diego River hits its highest total yet https://t.co/nNEfRaJQ1A

With an $80 million bet on lithium, SDSU is jumping into the "white gold" rush out by the Salton Sea. A new STEM center is part of the school's research funding surge & R1 ambitions — & effort to bring jobs to a region that needs them. Read @grobbins: https://t.co/z4y496sX03

Keith Galen Bach didn't have to die in jail. For nearly 24 hours before he did, his insulin monitor was probably beeping, new autopsy findings show — making his death a homicide. Grateful to edit a @SDUTmcdonald / @kellylynndavis cobyline again. https://t.co/CDO3C6nMGY

Long before any legal claims, San Diego Unified got at least 3 other complaints about its now-fired chief, records obtained by @Kristen_Taketa show. Two were deemed rumor that didn't need investigating. A probe of a third quietly closed. Read her scoop: https://t.co/UxE1r9lOcx

Now, to restore its western neighbor Mt. Buckley's rightful name of "Mt. Fuckley" — as @bc_phillips once christened it in exhaustion while backpacking, when he realized we'd only climbed a false summit.

GreatSmokyNPS @GreatSmokyNPS

News Release—Kuwohi name restored to the highest peak in the Smokies The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted today in favor to change the name of Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi. Full news release at https://t.co/ceRZOQ5LWd https://t.co/sOJeY9tZkE

Another @Kristen_Taketa scoop: Lamont Jackson "emphatically" denies 2 former admins' sexual misconduct accusations & an anonymous complaint of favoritism. He also says he's "not done as an educator." More from the interview, his first since his firing: https://t.co/eDiDhQtDxf

What's going on with San Diego's billion-dollar Pure Water project? Its 2nd phase is already scaled back. Now, @UTDavidGarrick has the latest on Phase 1's pipelines & pump stations — & $130 million in cost overruns that will get passed on to ratepayers. https://t.co/Td6iTtL9pN