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Fact Check: San Diego’s Declining Trash Trend
Statement: “The per-capita amount of waste disposed in the county has dropped in the past five years as recycling has increased,” State Sen. Juan Vargas wrote in an editorial published by the...
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SDG&E and the Wildfires: A Reader’s Guide
As their fourth anniversary nears this month, the October 2007 wildfires keep burning San Diego Gas & Electric and its customers. State investigators blamed the utility for two of the three fires....
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Where Parolees Live in San Diego: Map
I’ve been researching geographic trends as part of an ongoing project and publishing some of my findings along the way. This week, I wanted to take a look at where people on parole and probation live...
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A Reader’s Guide to San Diego Hospital Districts
It’s difficult to imagine large parts of San Diego County that were once so sparsely populated that communities needed to tax themselves in order to build a hospital. But about 70 years ago, that’s...
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North County Report: Old Concerns Remain Over Fallbrook’s New Electoral Map
Image via Shutterstock Some 60,000 people live within the boundaries of the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District, a third of whom identified as Hispanic in the last U.S. Census. It’s a...
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Fallbrook Is Nearly a Majority-Latino Town. Until Recently It Had No Latino...
Ricardo Favela grew up around the idyllic avocado groves of Fallbrook when Tom Metzger was spouting white supremacy through a bullhorn that carried far outside Southern California. Metzger, Grand...
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At 8, He Was a Migrant Worker in North County. Now, He’s a School Board Member.
His first memories of school are not good ones. Little Oscar Caralampio walked 30 minutes to the bus stop each morning with his siblings. Whether he would get on the bus was anybody’s guess. Some...
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Water Authority Drops Lawsuit Against Water Divorcees
The San Diego County Water Authority’s board voted Thursday to drop a lawsuit the water seller filed in August against two of its customer water districts that are trying to leave and the agency that...
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