1+ hour, 34+ min ago  (848+ words) Though Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one in South County, the party has not controlled a single mayor's office in the region since former Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre ascended to the county Board of Supervisors." That could…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago  (522+ words) Introducing Voice of San Diego's Acorn Awards: This week are giving out a new set of recognitions to highlight schools that outperform expectations on a metric comparing student income to test scores, which we developed in partnership with UC San…...

14+ hour, 23+ min ago  (912+ words) In a move that instantly put a political spotlight on San Diego County's second largest city, Chula Vista Elementary School District Trustee Francisco Tamayo this week announced he is running for Chula Vista mayor." Tamayo, a Democrat, filed papers on…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (733+ words) Voice of San Diego's Acorn Awards are a celebration of schools performing well on our income vs. test score metric. The metric controls test scores for the number of socioeconomically disadvantaged students a school serves, helping to quiet factors that…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (321+ words) Part of the reason there are not enough affordable homes for San Diegans is that big corporations and wealthy investors are snatching up properties and leaving them vacant to avoid landlord-tenant regulations or to turn a profit on them later....

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1004+ words) For years, transit enthusiasts have urged the state to throw more dollars at the troubled 351-mile-long Southern California rail corridor that stretches from San Luis Obispo to San Diego. They want to revive its crumbling infrastructure and address its declining…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1002+ words) Twenty years ago, Escondido Councilmember Consuelo Martinez watched as an elderly man in a sombrero was picked up by Border Patrol agents while walking out of a Food 4 Less grocery store in Escondido." He was probably 70 or 80 years old, Martinez…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (478+ words) The San Ysidro School District recently made a startling disclosure: The district was running out of money and on track to be more than $4 million in the red. District leaders said the sudden downturn took them by surprise and was…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (604+ words) The'proposed'raises'posed a grave risk to district finances, officials for the San Diego County Office of Education wrote in a Dec. 11, 2025 letter to Acting Superintendent Manuel Bojorquez.' Later that same day, at their Dec. 11'school board meeting, district trustees approved the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1057+ words) As they prepare for the fiscal year that begins in July, San Diego city leaders are pledging to only make cuts instead of asking residents to pay higher fees." The reason for that is twofold: First, the San Diego City…...