We have a live @voiceofsandiego.org podcast at Soda Bar on Wednesday with a rad guest - SDSU athletic director JD Wicker. Come listen to us blab about local public affairs, college sports in the era of NIL and sports betting, ticket prices and a whole lot more. Got questions for Wicker? drop em! 👇

Via @jakobmcwhinney.bsky.social: A once-abandoned plan to open a safe parking lot for homeless families at a shuttered elementary school is now moving forward.

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As the state grapples with a school enrollment crisis, San Diego Unified doesn’t know how many students each campus can fit. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/14/s...

Mayor Todd Gloria’s admin ousts climate and sustainability direction - The firing follows a pattern of weakening San Diego’s climate action activities. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/08/m... @voiceofsandiego

Chula Vista police will soon begin using a suite of AI tools to generate near-instantaneous police reports and transcribe body camera footage. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/24/c...

It’s been less than a year since a National City development dispute began. Since then, city hall has been plagued by a lurid saga of allegations involving everything from sexual harassment claims to the alleged mishandling of human remains. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/23/a...

@sandiegocounty.bsky.social is urging a reversal of a controversial El Cajon police decision to stop automatically responding to mental-health crisis calls.

i regret to inform you that scam texts are getting much more creative

NBC News: "Is it your understanding that [Charlie Kirk's shooter] may be close by or still in Utah?" The commissioner of Utah’s Department of Public Safety: "We have no idea"

In 10 years San Diego built a 11 mile, 9 station expansion of the Trolley

Just to offer some context here: We don't know what the Charlie Kirk shooter's motives were. He may well have been a radical Leftist. He may also have been a neo-Nazi accelerationist. Or a narcissist. We simply don't know yet. Maybe we will some day, but we don't now.

This summer, a Republican school board member in Escondido came out as trans. Calls for her resignation quickly followed, but were soon overshadowed by a torrent of supporters. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/09/10/a...

School trustee Carol Durney had long struggled with a deep, existential discomfort. Then, at 64, the longtime Republican had a startling revelation: she was trans. Now, despite the vicious attacks she's endured, she can’t help but marvel at the joy she feels. “My heart is full of love.”

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

Finally maybe now we'll be able to get some good Mexican food around here

More history via @jakobmcwhinney.bsky.social and I:

As ICE continues to arrest parents near schools, some teachers are urging for more to be done. “This is history in the making. So, what are we willing to do? Are we going to just follow the law to the T, or are we willing to do what’s right and ensure that students still feel safe in schools?”

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

"Fuzzy, snotty and frenzied, this is psych rock just like momma used to make,” reporter Jakob McWhinney writes of a new song by the local act Chorduroy. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/27/s...

this is extremely fucked

this website for an ai conference boasts an incredible feature - a template for how to convince your boss to pay for it, complete with the signoff "Best, [YOUR NAME]". the aifolk need someone else to think of how to pitch their boss on a conference that helps them not think.

The nation’s annual summer respite of horrific school shoutings is over

this is genuinely horrific.

ahem www.axios.com/local/san-di...

San Diego’s art scene has an “ASS” problem. Reporter Jakob McWhinney explains how our culturally rich region is held back by a lack of affordability, support and spirit. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/22/c...

San Diego County has long been a haven for refugees. Will the region’s high cost of living and the federal immigration crackdown change that? voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/21/c...

wrote a thing about why San Diego is so hard on artists for the @voiceofsandiego.org BIG ISSUES theme week. was tough to condense a topic I’ve been yapping about for years into something intelligible. lemme know if you agree that SD has an "ASS" problem. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/22/c...

Many longtime residents of North County are being pushed out by high housing costs. Can the region turn this trend around? voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/19/c...

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Can San Diego really prevent homelessness at scale? Today's @voiceofsandiego.org news blast leads with my story looking ahead at progress our region could make over the next two decades as Voice celebrates its 20th anniversary.

@jakobmcwhinney.bsky.social delivered another interesting dive into major public school enrollment declines.

we could really use a major Hollywood picture about union soldiers being turbo woke pilled

"California’s car culture currently thrives on a collective cognitive dissonance and it’s reflected in our infrastructure. We call ourselves environmentalists but allow our transit systems to languish. We remove bike lanes just months after installing them We reject much-needed housing near transit"

After a gas pipeline explosion leveled a San Bruno neighborhood in 2010, the CPUC admitted it didn’t know how the utilities it regulated made spending decisions on safety. Fifteen years later and it’s still figuring that out: voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/18/e... @voiceofsandiego.org

The fucking protein powder has a shrink wrap arbitration agreement now? This is like a nightmare law school hypo

thinking about getting a bike, mostly for my ~4.5 mile commute to work. I live in north park and work in downtown, so there are some hills but they're not super duper crazy. I'm not an experienced biker, so I'm looking for a fairly easy ride that's not a budget breaker. any suggestions?

@jakobmcwhinney.bsky.social, Enrollment Decline Can’t Be Explained Away by Shift to Private Schools, Homeschooling voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/15/e... "not much educators can do, bc the main engines of the drops – declining birth rates & sky-high costs of living – are largely out of their control"

Kensington’s beloved single screen indie theatre, The Ken, getting shut down, gutted and turned into office space is extremely fucking depressing. Spent so many nights watching movies (and working) there. It’s where I first saw Metropolis and Rocky Horror. What an incredible loss for San Diego.

San Diego is embracing a new method for getting people out of homelessness, and the results are promising. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/13/t...

If you’re looking for local tuneage sung in a made-up language, look no further than Alberta Casey’s eclectic 80s jingle, “San Diego.” voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/13/s...

Positive stories are rare on the homelessness beat. @voiceofsandiego.org intern Tessa Balc delivered a good one today on a new strategy that's working in San Diego: diversion.

Cops aren’t responding here because a court ruled they don’t always have immunity from the consequences of their violence towards people in mental health distress.

After a federal ruling prompted El Cajon police to stop responding to some mental health calls, firefighters were left to their own devices. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/11/f...

what

A Chula Vista parent was arrested by ICE while picking up their child from school Wednesday. This kind of thing may be just the beginning of big changes in public schools for undocumented students. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/06/t...

In January, @sandiegocounty.bsky.social enacted a conservatorship expansion law that some feared would overwhelm local ERs with new patients. That hasn't happened.

Low-income patients in Imperial Beach are experiencing care delays as a community clinic crumbles from mismangement. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/08/01/d...