Matthew Bowler
The strike started on Dec. 17 and disrupted trash services for Chula Vista and portions of the city of San Diego.
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Local community group Alliance San Diego hosted its annual All People's Celebration honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and KPBS spoke to keynote speaker Rebecca Cokley about issues impacting the disabled community. Next, Voice of San Diego reporter Maya Srikrishnan discusses who was left out of the recent 2020 census data despite San Diego’s growing diversity. Later, UCSF physician Dr. Lindsay Ryan on assistance for those with damaged immune systems amidst the pandemic. Later, visitors can now look through Mount Wilson Observatory telescopes in Los Angeles (for a price). Plus, a new exhibition at Art Produce in North Park reflects on the aftermath of decades of war in Laos. Finally, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., Turner Classic Movies has created a program of documentary shorts and features looking at the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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Matthew BowlerThe number of California children who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 during the omicron variant surge has “skyrocketed,” challenging earlier notions that the coronavirus largely bypassed children. Child vaccination rates are relatively low, and children that contract COVID-19 could be at increased risk for rare conditions and diabetes.
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Courtesy of Alliance San DiegoDisabled rights activist and keynote speaker Rebecca Cokley said "all issues are disability rights and justice issues."
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Matthew BowlerWhile the 2020 census data indicates that San Diego is more diverse than ever before, limited census taking metrics may not be getting the full picture of the region's demographics change.
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Alexander Nguyen / KPBSAs California enters its fifth year of broad legal marijuana sales, industry insiders say the practice of working simultaneously in the legal and illicit markets is all too commonplace in the struggling pot economy.
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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would. have turned 93 on Jan. 15. He was just 39 when he was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tenn. -
Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, it's never been easier or more affordable to make a perfect facsimile of a human voice: a celebrity, a world leader or even a public-radio reporter. -
After years of legal wrangling, the sprawling Roman villa filled with masterpieces from antiquity to the Renaissance will hit the auction block Tuesday with a starting price of $534 million.
