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School board elections are supposed to be non-partisan, but party politics have sparked much more interest in who's running school districts and spending taxpayer money.

For more than three decades, GRAMMY Award-winning conguero Poncho Sanchez has stirred up a fiery stew of straight-ahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South American sources. Throughout his career Sanchez has held aloft the torch lit by such innovators as Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente and Cal Tjader, embraced by each of those icons and entrusted to carry forward the traditions of Latin Jazz. Come see him perform at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center on Thursday, December 15 at 7:30 p.m. Click here for more information about this event!

What better way to spend a holiday than with Storm Large? Storm will love you, leave you, delight you and abuse you with wicked charm and stunning vocals ‘till you’re begging for more. Holiday Ordeal is a night of music, gags, gifts, and some very special guests, with songs ranging from “2000 Miles,” “Hallelujah,” and “Sock it to Me Santa,” to the greatest holiday song never written for the holidays, “Somebody to Love.” Come see her perform at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center on Saturday, December 10 at 7:30 p.m. For more information about this event, click here!

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is avoiding skyrocketing medical costs by releasing injured people from federal custody, according to a KPBS investigation.

The blaze, dubbed the Border 32 Fire, was about 20% contained as 7 a.m. Friday, according to Cal Fire.

KPBS wants to talk to voters who have changed their political party since 2004, or left a party and become a no party preference voter.

Mission Valley Branch Library has partnered with Rady Children's Hospital Healthy Development Services/Children's Care Connection (C3) and First 5 San Diego to present this series of online workshops to learn about your child's development and how that development relates to their behavior as well as the world around them. This workshop will give practical strategies and tips on subjects such as practicing positive discipline, creating routines and healthy habits, learning to cope with big emotions and building healthy relationships. Go to sandiego.librarymarket.com to register. Date: Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022 Time: 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Location: Virtual Zoom Link For more information on this event and zoom registration visit HERE!

The first ARTIST OPEN HOUSE will be held at the Brooks Theater Gallery on Saturday, November 5 from 6 to 7:30 pm to introduce a new exhibition highlighting the work of fourteen artists and their visual interpretations of ROMANCE, creating an intriguing partnership between the Gallery and the Oceanside Theatre Company youth production of Beauty and the Beast, Jr. A free event open to artists, families, art lovers and supporters, as well as the general public, the Artist Open House will feature live music, an artist working in the Gallery on their current art piece, refreshments, and a concessions bar open for purchasing beer and wine.

San Diego marks a new COVID-19 case milestone today, as the county is set to surpass 700,000 cases since the pandemic began. Then, a San Diego State University dean made comments on twitter about conservatives and was thrust into a national debate on academic free speech. And, the old English game of squash is giving students at a charter school in Southeast San Diego new opportunities academically and athletically. Next, San Diego County is home to 42 school districts. One, San Diego Unified has more than 100,000 students but several others serve fewer than 1,000 students, resulting in wide disparities in per-pupil funding. Plus, the San Diego Tourism Authority hopes a new ad which markets San Diego as a happy place will bring more visitors to the city. Finally, San Diego-based IDW Publishing is one of the top four publishers of comic books and graphic novels in the U.S. and like so many businesses it had to make adjustments during the pandemic.

Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the forests.