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Chula Vista School District Will Investigate Corruption Allegations

1 week 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.
Song of the Week: 'How to Let Go'

1 week ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Jakob McWhinney

The music industry is a mess. While the internet allowed artists to beam their work to new audiences across the world, it also collapsed the industry, devaluing music and draining power from musicians. None of this is to say that the industry was fine and dandy before Spotify bulldozed its way across the world ‚Äď it clearly wasn‚Äôt.¬†¬†The arts have always been a place of exploitation.
Midway Shelter Caught in City, County Funding Dispute

1 week ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Lisa Halverstadt

A long-simmering city and county battle over their respective roles addressing the region’s homelessness and behavioral health crises just got hotter. At the center of the latest battle: the future of a 150-bed Alpha Project shelter serving homeless San Diegans with behavioral health conditions outside the county’s Midway District health complex that could now be forced to close.
South County Report: The Race Is On (Again)

1 week ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Jim Hinch

In the race to determine South County’s most powerful elected leader, voters now face a clear, and revealing, choice. Last week’s primary vote in the special election to replace former District 1 Supervisor Nora Vargas on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors whittled down a field of seven candidates to two decisive victors: Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre and Chula Vista Mayor John McCann.
Border Report: Deportation Threat Looms Over Haitian Immigrants

1 week ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Kate Morrissey

Outside a local home improvement store, groups of men stand and sit in the shade of a cluster of nearby trees. A few stand in the parking lot, dodging instructions from the store’s security guards to move to public property as they ask people leaving the store if they need help loading supplies or installing their recent purchases. One man receives a few bills for helping to load lumber into the back of a car. The sight is nothing new in San Diego, but in recent years the demographics have changed.
As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond

1 week ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Jakob McWhinney

When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good. Two of her online classes were completely full, boasting 32 students each. Even the classes’ waitlists, which fit 20 students, were maxed out. That had never happened before. “Teachers get excited when there’s a lot of interest in their class. I felt like, ‘Great, I’m going to have a whole bunch of students who are invested and learning,’’ Smith said.
Sacramento Report: How San Diego Is Coping with Trump’s Slash-and-Burn Strategy for Climate Funding

1 week ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Deborah Sullivan Brennan

Last year the Environmental Health Coalition received a $20 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to improve air quality, build green spaces and add electric transit to some of San Diego’s most polluted neighborhoods. Organizers were excited to get the award, which supplemented state funds for projects in Barrio Logan, National City and other communities exposed to pollution from truck traffic and industrial pollution. Everything went as expected on the start date Jan.
VOSD Podcast: Liberty Station Moneybags vs. Mayor

1 week ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Andrea Lopez-Villafana

An effort to set aside an area for homeless people near the San Diego airport has another foe: Liberty Station’s developer. As our Lisa Halverstadt reports, McMillin-NTC is asking a judge to grant an injunction while the company’s legal battle with the city over the proposed safe parking lot at the city’s H Barracks site continues. On this week’s show, our crew explains what McMillin’s lawsuit argues and why the project has been met with so much opposition.
How the Teachers Union and a Board Member Transformed Chula Vista Elementary School District

2 weeks ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Jim Hinch

It was the autumn of 2019 and teacher contract negotiations had broken down in the Chula Vista Elementary School District. Teachers wanted a raise. District leaders wouldn’t budge. The district’s five-member Board of Trustees met with then-Superintendent Francisco Escobedo at district headquarters to figure out what to do. Former board member Laurie Humphrey, who was at the meeting, recalls someone piping up with a suggestion.
North County Report: Drama Continues on Poway’s City Council

2 weeks ago | voiceofsandiego.org | Tigist Layne

Two recall efforts, a potential lawsuit and a whole lot of bickering – political drama in Poway is reaching a boiling point. If you’ve been tuning into Poway’s City Council meetings over the past few months, then you’ve noticed quite a bit of tension among councilmembers, city staff and residents. And by tension, I mean heated exchanges between elected officials, residents announcing efforts to recall councilmembers, city staff alleging harassment and bullying from a councilmember and more.