Tag: Mayoral Candidates

  • Where the Mayoral Candidates Diverge on Racial Profiling

    By Liam Dillon Both San Diego mayoral candidates believe the police department needs more resources to combat racial profiling and plan to push for more cops and better pay if they’re elected. This is nothing different than Democratic City Councilman David Alvarez and Republican Councilman Kevin Faulconer have said throughout the campaign. Alvarez and Faulconer…

  • How the Next Mayor Plans to Fix Emergency Response Time Disparities

    By Liam Dillon San Diego’s three mayoral candidates agree. Disparities in emergency response times across neighborhoods must end. “It is the city’s moral obligation to provide equitable emergency services to every community,” City Councilman Kevin Faulconer says in his neighborhoods plan. Broadly, Faulconer, City Councilman David Alvarez and former Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher agree on the…

  • Election Results: The Ones City Heights Residents Were Watching

    By Megan Burks Yesterday I visited three polling places in City Heights – Church of The Brethren in Fairmount Park, the City Heights Recreation Center and the Mid-City Police Substation – to talk with voters about which candidates and measures motivated them to get out and vote. Below are the results of some of those…

  • Youth Question Mayoral Candidates on Bullying and Other Teen Issues

    They may not be able to cast ballots, but teenagers involved with the nonprofit, Social Advocates for Youth San Diego, might have something better—a contract of sorts with San Diego’s future mayor. Teens in the Latino Youth Council, Critical Voice and Elevated Student Relations asked both Carl DeMaio and Bob Filner to fill out a…

  • Mayoral Candidates Debate Latino Issues

    By Adrian Florido San Diego’s four major mayoral candidates debated in front of a couple hundred Latino voters at the University of San Diego Thursday evening. | Photo Credit: KPBS Close to 30 percent of this city’s population is now Latino, and yet this was the first time many here could remember candidates for mayor…