Voice of San Diego

SDG&E’s Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Microgrids outside the City of Escondido in unincorporated San Diego County on Sept. 5, 2024. / Ariana Drehsler for Voice of San Diego

Strategies to keep migrants from entering the United States don’t just begin at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A brief and sordid history of the public restroom in America sheds light on why it’s impossible to take a private piss outside the home.

Anyone who has ever had to pee while out in public in San Diego knows it’s not easy.

Two institutions right across an inlet from one another on San Diego Bay highlight South County’s rich economic, cultural and natural diversity. Where else can you stand in one place and see America’s largest construction site, a row of globe-trotting mega-yachts and a tiny burrowing owl with the world’s most penetrating stare?

New musical movements don’t pop out of nowhere. The rise of punk, for example, was a reaction, in part, to the optimism of the hippy era. The simple, fast and loud tunes often eschewed the flowery virtuosity of music from the decade before. There was also a nihilistic streak to the lyrics. Instead of psychedelic exploration and free love, the lyrical fare of many early punk was a snarling unwillingness to adhere to the status quo.

County Supervisor Chair Nora Vargas at Voice of San Diego's Politifest at the University of San Diego on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Photo by Vito di Stefano

Hailed as a pathbreaking Latina when first elected in 2020, Vargas has feuded with key allies during her first term and left many residents feeling ignored or dismissed. What happened?

An old argument about shrinking San Diego Unified pops up once again, Trump’s education priorities and the return of California’s schools dashboard.

Spurred by state efforts to prioritize dual enrollment courses, San Diego Unified has significantly increased the number of courses its students are taking.