Andrew Bowen
Metro ReporterAs the KPBS metro reporter, Andrew Bowen covers a broad range of issues across San Diego County, including local government, housing, transportation, infrastructure and climate change. His reporting at KPBS has won numerous awards, including the 2019 Gloria Penner Award for Political Affairs Reporting from the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the 2018 Walk the Walk Award from Circulate San Diego. Before moving to San Diego, Andrew worked for six years as a freelance translator, radio reporter, and TV news producer in Germany. His work for the German international public broadcaster Deutsche Welle had him covering local, national, and international stories across Europe. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the English-language website of Der Spiegel, Germany's largest news magazine. Andrew is originally from Santa Rosa, California. He holds a bachelor of science degree in journalism with a minor in Spanish from Northwestern University. He speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese, and German.
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The San Diego City Council on Tuesday is scheduled to vote on a proposal to allow recreational marijuana sales, but ban commercial cultivation and testing of marijuana for safety and potency. -
One Paseo, the dense mixed-use development in Carmel Valley that prompted multiple back-and-forth votes at the City Council, has symbolically broken ground. -
The City Council has unanimously approved a five-year plan aimed at better growing and maintaining San Diego's urban forest. But staff say the program lacks funding, and its manager left San Diego this month after a year and a half on the job. -
KPBS Midday EditionCity nixed bike lanes amid fears of parking loss, slower traffic -
KPBS Midday EditionMayor Kevin Faulconer Thursday night proposed increasing San Diego's hotel room tax to expand the convention center, pay for more road repair and fund programs to get the growing number of homeless off the city's streets. -
The new City Council has received a briefing on the Ralph M. Brown Act, one of California's most pervasive laws.
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KPBS Midday EditionWhen California voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2016, they did so with the promise of new social and environmental programs funded by cannabis tax dollars. That promise remains largely unfulfilled in San Diego. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego is considering a new program focused on helping communities most impacted by the War on Drugs share in the profits of legalized cannabis. A similar program in Los Angeles has faced criticism. -
Following demonstrations in Barrio Logan and at the San Diego airport, hundreds marched in downtown San Diego in support of raising the federal minimum wage.
- Vegetation fire burns near Carlsbad, San Marcos border
- San Diego Unified quietly watered down its graduation requirements
- Protests in San Diego amid raids, troop mobilization
- Democratic Sen. Padilla forcibly removed from DHS press conference in Los Angeles
- Victims of fatal plane crash off coast of San Diego ID'd