The Sports Episode
There was a surprisingly tense conversation about water rates at the city. The reality that they’re going to soar is starting to set in and we’ll discuss. Finally, we’ve got a guest, I have been on his show many times but he’s never been on ours. Darren Smith, the best unemployed radio guy in tow…
Henry Foster on Housing
What exactly happened at City Council this week? We have one of them here, Councilmember Henry Foster joins us to talk about housing, ADUs, land use, the city’s deficit and more. SHOW NOTES INTRO 00:00:00 Intro SEGMENT 1 00:02:09 San Diego Football Club opening day drama AXIOSSDFC confronts…
Surprise! You Own a Pot Shop
SHOW NOTES INTRO 00:00:00 Intro Parent’s Guide on Instagram! SEGMENT 1 00:00:57 Parent’s Guide on Instagram! The wait is OVER This year’s A Parent’s Guide to San Diego Schools is here and ready to help answer all your local education questions! The Guide explains school choice opportunit…
Strong Mayor Energy
If you listened last week, you were set up for the big news this week. The mayor is flexing his muscles. We’ll explain the difference between eliminating a position and firing someone and what happened to the now former top bureaucrat at the city. And the parents guide is coming out. Jako…
'Is Anybody Running This City?'
It’s the 20th anniversary of the launch of Voice of San Diego, the greatest nonprofit news organization go live in 2005. We launched before YouTube. We’ll reminisce a bit with a sort of special guest. The city of San Diego’s budget deficit has provoked some tense conversations. A City Council bud…
The Sheriff Takes Our Questions
Coming up on the show today, a special interview with San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez. She is ready to talk about deaths in county jails, local law enforcement’s relationship with federal immigration agents and more. SHOW NOTES 2017 California Senate Bill 54, commonly referred to as "…
Much ADU at City Council
Is it the end of San Diego’s decidedly pro-housing majority? There was an earthquake at City Hall this week about ADUs At the same time, Poway City Council has reached a telenovela level of drama, we’ll break it down. SHOW NOTES 00:00:00 Opening 00:04:15 Controversial Encanto ADU Policy…
Everything's on Fire
Our annual Parents Guide to San Diego Schools is almost done. We have added a new metric this year and it reveals how well schools recovered, or didn’t, from COVID. Jakob here took it and turned it into a story. It’s a bit of a downer. Another local government is promising to protect people fro…
2025 Broke City Energy
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria gave his state of the city speech. If last year was the everything is awesome speech, this year was the everything is definitely not awesome speech. This was the tough conversations speech. The we can do hard things speech. The dynamic PowerPoint that went with includ…
The Meat and Potatoes with Raul Campillo
We are going to go through some updates to stories but we’ve got a special co-host today, San Diego City Councilmember Raul Campillo. We’ve got some questions for him and he said he’s come up with a contribution to our hot takes segment at the end. SHOW NOTES Segment 1 00:02:15 Updates 0…