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Troubled Education in San Diego School District
So many issues trace back to childhood. The opportunities, the lack thereof, early life traumas, and all the other factors that can impinge on early life, create the building blocks from which the...
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California to Shift Prison Population?
Interesting things are happening in the California penal system. Both sides of the aisle, left and right, have plans for a big change in the way the prison system works. Of course, much of this is...
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Veterans Make Up 35% of the San Diego Homeless
As you walk through the streets of San Diego, or any other American city, you will see the homeless. People living rough in the urban landscape. Each one is somebody’s brother, mother, son, cousin, or...
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San Diego’s School Board: A Long and Winding Road to Change
So many of our societal ills can be traced back to failures in the American educational system. Thus it is vitally important that we take an interest in that system and how it’s functioning. In San...
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Get My School Bucks: An Innovative Web Effort Supporting Education
Did you know that you can help a struggling school simply by shopping? Chad and Melinda Reist of San Diego have created a way for you to do just that, on a website called GetMySchoolBucks.com. Back in...
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Teenage Prostitution: Not As Rare As You Think
There are many paths taken by those on the streets. For an unfortunate number of pople, one of those paths is prostitution, and they get started at an earlier age than some of us would think. In...
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New Homeless Census in Downtown San Diego
Early morning last Monday had seen faces that you wouldn’t normally see at that hour fan out through downtown San Diego, as the volunteers had attempted to take a census of the society’s...
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Uptown San Diego Considering Homeless Survey
Yesterday, we wrote about a survey of the homeless being conducted in Downtown San Diego. The Downtown Partnership and the Common Ground have teamed up to register the homeless in order to better...
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The Stand Down in San Diego: Three Days on “60 Minutes”
San Diego’s yearly Stand Down event just passed recently, hosted by one of the oldest and most well-known programs to help homeless veterans. In case you’re not familiar with it, The Veterans Village...
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Advance Praise for Born, Not Raised: Voices from Juvenile Hall
We are very pleased to see the reception our newest book is getting, even with the release ten days away! There have been a few reviews and articles posted recently that can give you a good perspective...
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