Special VOSD Podcast: Start Me Up, San Diego
Striking out on your own to start a new business can be intimidating. If you’re lucky, you’re doing it in a city that’s invested in supporting new businesses and fledgling startups. In the past, San...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: SD Unified Tries to Beat the Summer Slide
While kids may look forward to summer break, their parents and teachers likely feel a different kind of anticipation: anxiety that students will backtrack on the progress they’ve made during the school...
View ArticleMember Coffee Recap: What’s Working (and What’s Not) in San Diego Schools
Each month, VOSD editors, reporters and staff travel to different locations in San Diego County to discuss the issues. Hosted by CEO Scott Lewis, our Member Coffee events provide an environment for our...
View ArticleVOSD Podcast: The Stadium Study’s Magically Shortened Timeline
Not too long ago, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith warned the city would need about a year for a sufficient environmental impact study of a new stadium. Now, San Diego’s hustling to get one done in mere...
View ArticleMorning Report: Schools Bite Back at SDG&E Rate Hikes
Every three years, solar-powered school districts in the region grimace at San Diego Gas & Electric’s proposed rate hikes. Their big concern: The suggested increases would put a big dent in the...
View ArticleMorning Report: Big Companies’ Share of the Sharing Economy
The romanticized narrative of the sharing economy, including services like Airbnb, is one of the little guy. It’s swarms of regular Janes and Joes taking matters into their own hands: giving and asking...
View ArticleMorning Report: San Diego’s Buzzworthiest Startups
Let’s not kid ourselves. San Diego is no Silicon Valley – certainly not when it comes to venture capital. These are the funds invested in companies that intend to grow quickly, and as Lisa Halverstadt...
View ArticleThe Jacobs Plan Is Back — Kinda
A little more than two years after an ambitious, controversial plan for Balboa Park was rejected by a San Diego Superior Court judge, the so-called Jacobs plan is back on the table – barely. A few...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: The Port’s a Powerful Landlord
The Port of San Diego serves as a landlord to the businesses along the water’s edge of San Diego Bay, but folks don’t always agree about how that land should be used. From the Convention Center to the...
View ArticleVOSD Podcast: The Twists and Turns of San Diego’s Campaign Finance Rules
If you’ve found yourself struggling to wrap your head around campaign finance laws (or have willfully avoided thinking about them), you’re not alone. San Diego’s ordinance might make that even tougher....
View ArticleMorning Report: City’s About to Make the Case for a New Stadium
A huge piece of the debate around building a new stadium has boiled down to dollars and cents – and sense. That is, does it make any for San Diego to invest an obscene amount of money to appease a team...
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Morning Report: The Sweet Deal for Purple Pipe Users
While San Diego water customers have watched rates increase year after year, one subgroup has been sheltered from the hikes: golf courses and other companies that tap into the city’s purple pipe...
View ArticleMorning Report: Carlsbad Wetlands Meet L.A. Grove
If you’ve paid attention to any development news in town (like, say, a massively expensive proposed Chargers stadium, to be paid for in part by the average San Diegan’s taxes), you’ve likely seen the...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: Schools Gone Solar
In the last few years, San Diego Unified’s installed solar panels at almost 40 school sites. Last year, that meant $618,000 in savings for the district. Now it wants to dream a little bigger. San Diego...
View ArticleVOSD Podcast Live: Gonzalez Goes Deep on Faith, CEQA and Civic SD
Allow Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez to clarify her tweets about atheists. See, Gonzalez says she didn’t know “non-believer” was a technical term. So when Ryan Clumpner, executive director of the...
View ArticleMorning Report: What SD Unified Has in Common With SDPD
As Mario Koran read through the widely shared New York Times story on the San Diego Police Department’s use of facial recognition software, one phrase in particular jumped out to him (emphasis ours):...
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Morning Report: The ‘Bullying’ Tactics of Lilac Hills Developer
Generally, commitment to goals is a good thing. We’re praised for persevering in our endeavors, refusing to let setback after setback keep us down. But what about when the dedicated party is a...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: Carson’s Strange Stadium History
The Chargers seem to be pretty committed to the joint stadium plan they’ve concocted with the Oakland Raiders (just ask Carmen Policy, the man tasked with overseeing the partner plan). But Carson, the...
View ArticleVOSD Podcast: ‘Reasonable Representation’ in Stadium Polls
One of our gauges in the ongoing battle over building a new Chargers stadium comes from polls. But those outcomes are largely influenced by choice wording in pollsters’ surveys. John Nienstedt,...
View ArticleMorning Report: Everybody Wants to Be SD
Sacramento’s been watching San Diego, and it likes what it sees – at least when it comes to Joint Power Agreements, dockside fisherman’s markets and widespread voting-by-mail. In this week’s Sacramento...
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