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This week on the VOSD Podcast, hosts Scott Lewis, Andrew Keatts and Andrea Lopez-Villafaña have a new Covid death record story, juicy City Council sound bites and your new favorite newsletter.
It’s not something you expect to hear: A congressional representative from San Diego saying maybe the Navy has too many ships and maybe the defense department’s budget is too big. But that’s something Congresswoman Sara Jacobs will gladly discuss. As she enters her second term, Jacobs has transitioned from rookie to leadership. The new Congress…
We’re cookin’ with gas! At least for now. This week on the VOSD Podcast, hosts Scott Lewis, Andrew Keatts and Andrea Lopez-Villafaña review how we got here — a time when pundits, local and national, are debating what gas stoves mean to us as a society and whether the fumes they spout are harmful to humans…
A man named Blue made a habit of sitting on the sidewalk with his legs outstretched, taking every inch he needed to be comfortable. “Dude, you’re blocking the sidewalk,” a passerby would say. “I live here!” Blue would reply. This was Blue’s flex — his way to assert dominance while living unsheltered. Blue was member…
This week on the VOSD Podcast, a State of the City preview, how transitional Kindergarten is changing education and what’s an atmospheric river anyway?
Maggie Balint was a star pitcher for San Diego State University last year and led the school to the Women’s World Series. She was the Mountain West pitcher of the year. In softball, at all levels, a dominant pitcher can lead a team quite far. All things equal, the team with a better pitcher is…
Now-former San Diego City Councilmember Chris Cate was the last Republican elected official in City Hall. His successor, Kent Lee, serves District 6 as a Democrat, making the City Council a matching set along with fellow Dem mayor, Todd Gloria. Throughout his two terms, Cate says local leaders have become more courageous — willing to flirt…
This week on the podcast, Voice journalists Jesse Marx and Will Huntsberry unleash an authoritative account of Covid: Year Two. Two years ago, we had to sue the county to gain access to county death records that mentioned Covid as a cause. Marx and Huntsberry led a team to analyze them to grasp the toll…