Will Huntsberry

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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

2 months ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Will Huntsberry

New connections between a Chula Vista superintendent and a company he allegedly pushed as a potential district contractor have emerged. Campaign finance records show that Al Renteria, the operator of Dr. Build, donated $100 to Superintendent Eduardo Reyes’ 2018 campaign for school board of the Chula Vista Elementary School District. Earlier this week, Voice of San Diego revealed allegations that Reyes had pressured a district employee to award school district contracts to Dr. Build.