Council es San Diego budget that restores library hours, fire rings and more — but at a cost to some city workers
Mayor Todd Gloria said all the new spending makes him unsure if he'll sign it...
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Would Aguirre repeal sanctuary rule? What’s McCann’s stance on ICE? What a supervisor race could mean for immigrants
Here's what the District 1 candidates say — and won't say — about protests, ICE...
Divided San Diego City Council OKs $44-a-month trash pickup fee, city’s first ever
To one council member, the fee is a way to avoid painful budget cuts elsewhere...
Q&A with Sarah Song, candidate for county Board of Education
Sarah Song, a former elementary school teacher, is running for the District 4 seat on...
Q&A with Nancy Orr, candidate for Cardiff school board
Nancy Orr, a retired educator, is running for re-election to the Cardiff School District board...
Q&A with Rhea Stewart, candidate for Cardiff school board
Rhea Stewart, who works in educational publishing, is running for re-election to the Cardiff School...
Q&A with Jen Belnap, candidate for Carlsbad Unified school board
Jen Belnap, a parent and PTA board member, is running for the Area 2 seat...
Q&A with Alison Emery, candidate for Carlsbad Unified school board
Alison Emery, a teacher and parent, is running for the Area 2 seat on the...
Q&A with Ejehan Turker, candidate for Carlsbad Unified school board
Ejehan Turker, an ethics and compliance director for businesses, is running for the Area 3...
Q&A with Laura Siaosi, candidate for Carlsbad Unified school board
Laura Siaosi, who works in an Encinitas dental office, is running for the Area 3...
Q&A with Erika Simmons, candidate for Alpine Union school board
Erika Simmons, a principal in San Diego Unified School District, is running for a seat...
Q&A with Martha Deichler, candidate for Borrego Springs Unified school board
Martha Deichler, executive director of the Borrego Springs Community Resource Center and a retired educator,...
Q&A with Peter Kellner, candidate for Borrego Springs Unified school board
Peter Kellner, a technical training content developer, is running for a seat on the Borrego...
Q&A with Emily Schworm, candidate for Cajon Valley Union school board
Emily “Lily” Schworm is running for the short-term Area 3 seat on the Cajon Valley...
Q&A with Dina Polus, candidate for Cajon Valley Union school board
Dina Polus, a bookkeeper, is running for the short-term Area 3 seat on the Cajon...
Q&A with Jim Miller, candidate for Cajon Valley Union school board
Jim Miller, a family law attorney and sports agent, is running for re-election to the...
Q&A with Alex Welling, candidate for Cajon Valley Union school board
Alex Welling, a wildfire and emergency communications manager at SDG&E, is running for the Area...
Q&A with Oday Yousif, candidate for Cajon Valley Union school board
Oday Yousif, a small business owner and attorney, is running for the Area 5 seat...
Q&A with Rocina Lizarraga, candidate for National school board
Rocina Lizarraga, an incumbent board member, garden specialist and community project coordinator on transportation,...
Q&A with Cindy Lopez, candidate for National school board
Cindy Lopez, a substitute teacher in the district and an executive assistant at the National...
Q&A with Autumn Ellenson, candidate for Lakeside Union School District
Autumn Ellenson, a school , is running for the Area 2 seat on the Lakeside...
Q&A with Twila Godley, candidate for Lakeside Union School District
Twila Godley, a retiree, community volunteer and former school board member, is running for the...
Q&A with Britni Mushet, candidate for Julian Union High school board
Britni Mushet, the executive director of the Warner Springs Community Resource Center, is running for...
Q&A with Emily Ortiz Wichmann, candidate for Oceanside Unified school board
Emily Ortiz Wichmann, an education consultant and former school board member, is running for the...
Q&A with Eleanor Evans, candidate for Oceanside Unified school board
Eleanor Evans, an educator, is running for re-election to the Area 2 seat on the...
Q&A with Rosie Higuera, candidate for Oceanside Unified school board
Rosie Higuera, a private school teacher, is running for the Area 5 seat on the...
Q&A with Mike Blessing, candidate for Oceanside Unified school board
Mike Blessing, a retired Oceanside city planning director and incumbent school board member, is running...
Q&A with David Cheng, candidate for Poway Unified school board
David Cheng, a consumer advocate attorney, is running for the Area E seat on the...
Q&A with Cindy Sytsma, candidate for Poway Unified school board
Cindy Sytsma, an educator and incumbent, is running for re-election to the Area E seat...
Q&A with Tim Dougherty, candidate for Poway Unified school board
Tim Dougherty, a supply-chain executive at a home-goods store, is running for the Area A...
Q&A with Dr. Devesh Vashishtha, candidate for Poway Unified school board
Devesh Vashishtha, a family physician and medical director of a City Heights clinic, is running...
Q&A with Stephanie Cooter, candidate for Ramona Unified school board
Stephanie Cooter, a marketing manager, is running for the Area 3 seat on the Ramona...
Q&A with Daryn Drum, candidate for Ramona Unified school board
Daryn Drum, a firefighter and incumbent board member, is running for re-election to the Area...
Q&A with Maria Luoni, candidate for Rancho Santa Fe school board
Maria Luoni, a healthcare staffing executive, is running for a seat on the Rancho Santa...
Q&A with Janice Lee Holowka, candidate for Rancho Santa Fe school board
Janice Lee Holowka, an educational consultant and special-education advocate, is running for a seat on...
Q&A with Victoria Gamble, candidate for Rancho Santa Fe school board
Victoria Gamble, a legal recruiter, is running for a seat on the Rancho Santa Fe...
Q&A with Karen Eschrich, candidate for Rancho Santa Fe school board
Karen Eschrich, a real estate investor, is running for a seat on the Rancho Santa...
Q&A with Karen “Kate” Butler, candidate for Rancho Santa Fe school board
Karen “Kate” Butler, a private art advisor and curator, is running for a seat on...
Q&A with Crystal Trull, candidate for San Diego Unified school board
Crystal Trull, a college lecturer and nonprofit consultant, is running for the District A seat...
Q&A with Sabrina Bazzo, candidate for San Diego Unified school board
Sabrina Bazzo, the executive director of a nonprofit medical society and an incumbent school board...
Q&A with Jodie Williams, candidate for San Dieguito school board
Jodie Williams, an attorney and a current Encinitas Union School District board member, is running...
Q&A with Kelly Friis, candidate for San Dieguito school board
Kelly Friis, an investment management firm executive, is running for the Area 2 seat on...
Q&A with Kevin Sabellico, candidate for San Dieguito school board
Kevin Sabellico, a political campaign consultant, is running for the Area 4 seat on the...
Q&A with Michael Allman, candidate for San Dieguito school board
Michael Allman, an energy industry executive and incumbent school board member, is running for re-election...
Q&A with Carlos Ulloa, candidate for San Marcos Unified school board
Carlos Ulloa, an Escondido public school teacher and incumbent San Marcos board member, is running...
Q&A with Heidi Herrick, candidate for San Marcos Unified school board
Heidi Herrick, a medical technology recruiting executive, is running for the Area A seat on...
Q&A with Brittany Bower, candidate for San Marcos Unified school board
Brittany Bower, who helps run her family’s property-damage restoration business, is running for the Area...
Q&A with Sarah Ahmad, candidate for San Marcos Unified school board
Sarah Ahmad, a software company director and incumbent board member, is running for re-election to...
Q&A with Lena Lauer Meum, candidate for San Marcos Unified school board
Lena Lauer Meum, a property-management and wellness business owner, is running for the Area D...
Q&A with Jaime Chamberlin, candidate for San Marcos Unified school board
Jaime Chamberlin, a substitute teacher and current board member, is running for re-election to the...
Q&A with Kenia Peraza, candidate for San Ysidro school board
Kenia Peraza, a parent and community advocate, is running for a seat on the San...
Q&A with Antonio Martinez, candidate for San Ysidro school board
Antonio Martinez, a congressional staffer for Rep. Juan Vargas and incumbent school board member, is...
Q&A with Jose Manuel Dircio, candidate for San Ysidro school board
Jose Manuel Dircio, a mechanical engineer for the U.S. Defense Department, is running for a...
Q&A with Martin Arias, candidate for San Ysidro school board
Martin Arias, a taxpayer advocate for the county assessor, is running for a seat on...
Q&A with Monique Silver, candidate for Santee school board
Monique Silver, a retired educator, is running for the Area 4 seat on the Santee...
Q&A with Manuel “Manny” Esparza, candidate for South Bay Union school board
Manuel “Manny” Esparza, a veteran, retired construction business owner and incumbent board member, is running...
Q&A with Lizbeth Becerra, candidate for South Bay Union school board
Lizbeth Becerra, a businesswoman and office assistant, is running for the short-term Area 4 seat...
Q&A with Adrian Arancibia, candidate for Sweetwater Union High school board
Adrian Arancibia, an English professor at Miramar College, is running for re-election to the Area...
Q&A with Angelica Martinez, candidate for Sweetwater Union High school board
Angelica Martinez, an educator in San Diego Unified School District, is running for the Area...
Q&A with Rodolfo “Rudy” Lopez, candidate for Sweetwater Union High school board
Rodolfo “Rudy” Lopez, a small business owner and San Ysidro school board member, is running...
Q&A with Olga Espinoza, candidate for Sweetwater Union High school board
Olga Espinoza, a community leader and advocate, is running for the Area 4 seat on...
Q&A with Amanda Remmen, candidate for Vista Unified school board
Amanda “Mandy” Remmen, who owns a jewelry and accessories small business, is running for the...
Q&A with Mike Markov, candidate for Vista Unified school board
Mike Markov, a commercial pilot, is running for the Area 1 seat on the Vista...
Q&A with Frank Nunez, candidate for Vista Unified school board
Frank Nunez is a small business owner and parent running for the Area 4 seat...
Q&A with Coleen Cusack, candidate for San Diego City Council
Coleen Cusack, an attorney and homeless advocate, is challenging San Diego City Councilmember Stephen Whitburn...
Q&A with Sean Elo-Rivera, candidate for San Diego City Council
Sean Elo-Rivera, the incumbent and president of the San Diego City Council, is seeking a...
San Diego rejects local businessman’s $10M offer to buy 101 Ash, convert it to homeless housing
After months of negotiations with the mayor's office, the ive housing project was ed over...
Q&A with Tasha Boerner, 77th Assembly District candidate
Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, a Democrat, is running for re-election to her seat representing the 77th...
Q&A with LaShae Sharp-Collins, 79th Assembly District candidate
LaShae Sharp Collins, a community engagement professional with the county’s office of education, is running...
Who’s running for school board? Meet the candidates in every district around San Diego County
The San Diego Union-Tribune asked every candidate a series of questions about everything from budgets...
Q&A with Darshana Patel, 76th Assembly District candidate
Darshana Patel, a Democrat, scientist and Poway Unified school board member, is running for the...
Q&A with Michael Williams, 80th Assembly District candidate
Michael Williams, a Republican and a former naval officer and FBI analyst, is challenging Democratic...
Q&A with Terry Hoskins, candidate for San Diego City Council
Terry Hoskins, a retired Marine officer and retired San Diego police officer, is running for...
Q&A with Colin Parent, 79th Assembly District candidate
Colin Parent, a La Mesa council member and head of the mobility nonprofit Circulate San...
Q&A with Akilah Weber, 39th Senate District candidate
Dr. Akilah Weber, an OB-GYN and Democratic member of the state Assembly, is running for...
Q&A with Carl DeMaio, 75th Assembly District candidate
Carl DeMaio, a Republican and former San Diego City Council member, is running for the...
Q&A with Chris Duncan, 74th Assembly District candidate
Chris Duncan, a Democrat and a San Clemente city council member, is challenging Republican incumbent...
We asked nearly 200 school board candidates about their campaigns. Here’s what we found.
Out of more than 180 candidates running for a K-12 or community college school board...
Q&A with Andrew Hayes, 75th Assembly District candidate
Andrew Hayes, a Republican and Lakeside school board member, is running for the open 75th...
Q&A with Stephen Whitburn, candidate for San Diego City Council
San Diego City Councilmember Stephen Whitburn is seeking a second term representing downtown and the...
An estimated crowd of 1,000 marches in pro-Palestine rally in downtown San Diego
At a peaceful demonstration, protestors call for a cease-fire, an arms embargo and cutting US...
Four vie for two City Council seats in La Mesa election
Voters also will consider extending a sales tax for 20 years
Oceanside treasurer candidate arrested, subject of emergency gun order
The case against Jack Fernandes, one of two people challenging incumbent Treasurer Victor Roy, remains...
Businesses, museums and environmentalists: An unlikely coalition is confident San Diegans will raise sales tax
ers of Measure E, San Diego’s proposed one-cent sales tax hike, say there are strong...
Your guide to Proposition 33, which would allow local expansions of rent control
Propositions 33 and 34 are dueling ballot measures over rent control, and then some. Here's...
Your guide to Measure C, to skip primaries in some less competitive school board races
If approved, Measure C would amend the San Diego city charter to eliminate primaries for...
2 Democrats running to represent San Diego in the state Assembly have very different resumes
Colin Parent and LaShae Sharp-Collins are keeping things positive in the race for the 79th...
Q&A with Adryenn Cantor, candidate for Julian Union High school board
Adryenn Cantor, a retired family law attorney, is running for a seat on the Julian...
Gloria and Turner clash on ADUs, trolleys and shelter beds in 2nd mayoral debate
The candidates debated the mayor's efforts to reduce homelessness, which Turner has harshly criticized throughout...
San Diego approves deal linked to Bird bankruptcy that settles scooter injury suits
City Council approved contributing $750,000 to a tort claim trust rather than risking exposure to...
Housing, homelessness and district budgets top issues in National City elections
Voters will select representatives for Districts 2 and 4 and decide whether to establish a...
Homelessness and public safety are top issues in Oceanside election
Two council districts, mayor, city treasurer and tax measure on the ballot
Tackling crossborder sewage crisis top of mind in Imperial Beach elections
Parking, housing and rent costs also top issues for five candidates running in two district...
Mission Valley bridge over San Diego River, now a $53M project, secures approval
The Fenton Parkway Bridge, which SDSU must build as a condition of its purchase of...
How fundraising is faring in San Diego County’s toughest — and most expensive — supervisor race
Both Terra Lawson-Remer and Kevin Faulconer have spent a majority of their campaigns attacking one...
The candidates running for City Council in Chula Vista
Candidates in Districts 3 and 4 say homelessness, housing, police response and park space are...
2 Republicans running to represent East County in Sacramento differ on how to reach similar goals
There's a sharp personality divide between Carl DeMaio and Andrew Hayes in the campaign for...
Your guide to San Diego’s Measure D, an effort to bolster the Ethics Commission
Voters in the city of San Diego will decide this fall whether to boost the...
Your guide to San Diego’s Measure E — and other local sales tax measures around San Diego County
Voters in the city of San Diego and nine other local cities will decide this...
San Diego city attorney candidates debate qualifications, and whether public confrontation is part of the job
The two people battling to become San Diego’s next city attorney clashed Saturday over their...
San Dieguito school trustee subject of state political investigation
That means FPPC enforcement officials completed a first-look review of the complaints and determined there...
Weeks before the election, here’s how much San Diego campaigns are raising and spending
A proposed local sales-tax hike, Measure E, has garnered more campaign cash than any other...
Elo-Rivera, challenger Hoskins spar over housing, homelessness and ADUs in council debate
The San Diego City Council District 9 candidates disagreed on how to incentivize new development,...