AltWeeklies Wire
San Diego and its nonprofits are in a pie fightnew

City and community groups battle over a shrinking pot of federal anti-poverty money.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kelly Davis |
03-27-2014 |
Poverty
How San Diego Progressives Ended Bob Filner's Political Careernew

For the first time, Donna Frye, Marco Gonzalez and Cory Briggs talk in detail about why they did what they did.
San Diego CityBeat |
David Rolland |
09-18-2013 |
Politics
San Diego: Lousy at Public Informationnew

Government-transparency advocates in San Diego look past Bob Filner to a new era.
San Diego CityBeat |
Joshua Emerson Smith |
08-28-2013 |
Policy Issues
Tags: Government Transparency
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's Got To Gonew

We believe Donna Frye, and we've lost our confidence in the mayor's capacity to see his policy vision through.
San Diego CityBeat |
David Rolland |
07-15-2013 |
Politics
Tags: sexual harassment
Suicide in the Cellnew

Inmates kill themselves at a high rate after San Diego County Sheriff's Department refuses to revamp policies.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kelly Davis and Dave Maass |
04-25-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Necessary or Intrusive?new

Examinations on children taken from parents is questioned on civil-rights grounds.
San Diego CityBeat |
David Taube |
04-16-2013 |
Children & Families
Tags: Camreta v. Greene, Child Welfare
How Many Inmate Deaths Is Too Many?new

San Diego County's incarceration mortality rate leads California's largest jails.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass and Kelly Davis |
03-28-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Birther Gary Kreep's Family-Law Recordnew

Birther judge-elect opposed parental rights for communists and lesbians as a lawyer, and faced allegations of spousal abuse.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
12-20-2012 |
Politics
The Birther Judgenew

A master of political hits and campaign shell games prepares to take a seat on the bench of the of San Diego County Superior Court.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
11-16-2012 |
Politics
Tags: Gary Kreep San Diego
Al-Shabaab cases takes a turnnew

Four Somali men hope testimony collected in East Africa will prove they didn’t send money to a terrorist group.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
09-19-2012 |
International
Tags: government
GOP Ambitions Behind the Mitt Romney Facadenew

A report from the Republican National Convention.
San Diego CityBeat |
Nathan Dinsdale |
09-04-2012 |
Elections
Fur and Loathing in Lake Murraynew

Wearing animal costumes isn’t always a sex thing, ya know.
San Diego CityBeat |
Enrique Limon |
04-11-2012 |
Culture
Tags: Furries in San Diego, Furries!
Riot in North Bumblef*cknew

A private-prison disaster in Oklahoma reveals the dangers of California's reliance on Corrections Corporation of America.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
03-16-2012 |
Policy Issues
Yarn-Bombing the Signsnew

A San Diego-area man is unblocking up the scenery and breaking up minds.
San Diego CityBeat |
Enrique Limon |
03-15-2012 |
Culture
Plaster of the Apenew

A San Diego surfer mom is out to preserve one of the Tijuana border's most iconic plaster curios.
San Diego CityBeat |
Enrique Limon |
03-01-2012 |
Culture