San Diego’s Bike-Share Program Could Be the Nation’s Costliest
San Diego is one of the country’s most expensive cities to live in. Following suit, San Diego’s bike-share program is gearing up to be the most expensive program in the U.S. for users. The program is...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: Faulconer’s Climate Action Plan
The city’s been working to draft and approve a Climate Action Plan, which would aim to cut San Diego’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035. But as Mayor Kevin Faulconer prepares to release his own...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: Empowering Residents to Prevent Wildfires
The San Diego region is no stranger to wildfires, but local officials are still working to introduce some key policies that would help avoid disaster. Contrary to some post-Bernardo wildfire...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: The Mythical ‘Start-Up Ban’
No, there isn’t technically a start-up ban on the books in San Diego. But that myth might be contributing to the city’s reputation as bad for innovation. Lisa Halverstadt has knocked through some of...
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Behind the Competing Plans to Make Over Hillcrest
Until a few months ago, Jim Frost was just an architect enjoying his retirement in Bankers Hill. Then he got a phone call from SANDAG, the agency that plans San Diego’s transit future. SANDAG was...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: A New Kind of Election for Sweetwater Schools
The melody has almost stopped in Sweetwater Unified High School District’s game of musical chairs. In the wake of a pay-for-play scandal involving four of the district’s five school board members, all...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: How to Keep the Chargers in SD
Should they stay or should they go now? As plans for a new Chargers stadium are delayed, each year it looks easier — and more lucrative — for the Chargers to leave San Diego. Following reports that the...
View ArticleWho Does What for San Diego’s Business Community
San Diego is trying to give businesses a warm and fuzzy feeling about coming to and staying in town. On top of government efforts like subsidies and tax cuts, there are many private efforts to...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: An Enforceable Climate Action Plan
Mayor Kevin Faulconer is trying to take a chomp out of San Diego’s carbon footprint with a Climate Action Plan that has teeth. The plan calls for many changes to cut the city’s greenhouse gas emissions...
View ArticleOn Density, Community Character and ‘the Race Card’
The battle over developing neighborhoods in San Diego has always been heated. Tossing out curse words and accusations of racism only adds fuel to the fire. During a panel earlier this month,...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: Election Cram Session Edition
There’s a lot to digest this election season. Along with the many statewide propositions to vote on and school board members to pick, voters in the 52nd District will choose between Rep. Scott Peters...
View Article‘People Deserve a Chance to Rebuild Their Lives': Voices of the Voters in...
Polling stations in Clairemont Mesa, where voters were weighing in on the two most hotly contested races in San Diego, seemed a little dreary Tuesday. With over 70 percent of ballots in San Diego being...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: Who Decides the 52nd District Race
It’s down to the wire in the 52nd Congressional District race between Rep. Scott Peters and Carl DeMaio. As of the latest in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, DeMaio is leading Peters by about 750...
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Even Bike-Crazed San Diegans Don’t Bike to Work
To get an idea of how far the city has to go to meet its goal of getting far more San Diegans to bike to work by 2035, consider this: Many of the people I spoke with at the bike-boosting event...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: Making Do With a Manufacturing Space Crunch
Local leaders are worried it might be tough to attract manufacturing jobs in coming years. Just over 2,000 acres in sprawling San Diego County are ready for commercial development. Of that space, only...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: A Who’s Who of Business Boosters
It’s hard to live in San Diego without at some point coming across names like the Chamber of Commerce, CONNECT, Biocom or the Regional Economic Development Corporation. But what do all of these...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: Where the City Stands on Medical Marijuana
San Diego’s leading medical marijuana activist group, Alliance for Responsible Medicinal Access, celebrated its first anniversary this week. City Attorney Jan Goldsmith dropped by the celebration to...
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Mission Valley Keeps Getting More Roads – and More Traffic
Any San Diegan knows Mission Valley at rush hour is a gridlocked mess. At the intersection of Friars Road and Frazee Road, eight lanes of cars wait at red lights, backed up hundreds of feet waiting to...
View ArticleOne Paseo’s Main Competitor Dropped $1.2M Against the Project Since July
Things are getting ugly — and expensive — in Carmel Valley. One Paseo, the $650 million mixed-use project, is quickly approaching its day before the City Council, and the shopping center across the...
View ArticleOne Paseo Opponent: Kilroy Is Using the Courts to Silence Us
One of One Paseo’s main opponents thinks the project’s developers have been using the legal system to bully them for the last year. In the lobbying war over a plan to build 600 homes and multiple...
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