Will Huntsberry

2 weeks ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Will Huntsberry |Jakob McWhinney

President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to government programs have thrown the fates of roughly 300 young people living at the Job Corps center in Imperial Beach into chaos.  More than 200 people living at the center left within days of the news that it would close. It’s unclear where all of those who departed went. By the end of last week, less than 100 of the 300 students who had been staying there remained at the facility.

1 month ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Will Huntsberry

It began — like so many of our investigations — with a single story. In October 2016, reporter Andrew Keatts discovered some funny math built into an important countywide tax measure. In 2004, voters countywide approved a half-cent sales tax increase to fund transportation projects. Officials at the San Diego Association of Governments, which administers the tax, had told voters it would bring in $14 billion in revenue. Keatts discovered the funding models had been wrong.

2 months ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Will Huntsberry

Mark Arabo has a history of documented lies and a checkered past — but that won’t stop San Diego State University from awarding him an honorary doctorate degree next month. Arabo came to prominence locally advocating for other Iraqi Christrians a decade ago. He was a major political player, supporting several local candidates, and he counts the governor and former President Joe Biden as close associates.

2 months ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Will Huntsberry |Jim Hinch

Chula Vista Elementary School District will hire an outside law firm to investigate corruption allegations raised in a Voice of San Diego story earlier this month. In Voice’s original story, the district’s former chief operating officer made multiple allegations about top officials at the district. The former COO, Jovanim Martinez, said the district Superintendent Eduardo Reyes pressured him on multiple occasions to award a contract to a company called Dr. Build.

2 months ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Jakob McWhinney |Will Huntsberry

On Tuesday, Education Secretary Linda McMahon took the stage at the ASU+GSV Summit, one of the nation’s premier education technology conferences. Behind her, in the grand ballroom of San Diego’s Grand Hyatt Hotel, a fireplace was displayed on one of the three gaudy screens lining the back wall. In front of her, hundreds of educators, investors and technologists sat bathed in blue-light, picking at plates of croissants and green shakshuka eggs.