Erin Siegal
Reporter, Fronteras DeskErin Siegal is part of the Fronteras Desk reporting team, based in San Diego at KPBS. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, a Soros Justice Fellow, and a Redux Pictures photographer. She was a 2008-2009 fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Erin is the author of the award-winning book Finding Fernanda, (Beacon Press 2012), which examines organized crime and child trafficking in international adoption between Guatemala and the U.S. Previously, she wrote a column on public records and government accountability for the Columbia Journalism Review, "The FOIA Watchdog." She's contributed to various media outlets, including Univision, the New York Times, Time, Reuters, Newsweek, O Magazine, Businessweek, Rolling Stone, and more. She lives in Tijuana, Mexico. When she's not eating tacos or working, Erin can be found along the border at Rancho Los Amigos, riding horses and smoking cigars with her favorite vaqueros.
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The agency in charge of monitoring hydrogen sulfide emissions is now issuing alerts more frequently, but residents say they need real-time notifications. -
After quadrupling meter rates last fall, San Diego’s per-game parking revenue surged from roughly $2,100 to around $23,000.
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A new bill aims to ensure patients’ end-of-life wishes are followed. But one San Diego woman’s decision to pursue medical aid-in-dying highlights ongoing barriers to access, cost, and awareness. -
The county Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 Wednesday in support of renaming César Chávez Day to Farm Workers Day. -
The mayors were in Sacramento Wednesday asking lawmakers to put $1 billion dollars back into the Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention Program.
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- Unpaid TSA workers staff San Diego airport as paid ICE agents arrive at others
- East County green energy boom sparks concern over impacts to natural landscape, cultural sites
- SD County supervisor proposes first-time homebuyer program
- With help from California’s climate fund, Nestor is finally getting a new park