
Bennett Lacy
ProducerBen Lacy is a producer for KPBS Evening Edition and KPBS Roundtable.
MORE STORIES BY THIS AUTHOR
-
Advocates for criminal justice reform are calling for more accountability and preventative measures as a new study shows San Diego ranks at the top of all California counties in the number of excess deaths inside jails.
-
A new documentary showcases a struggle for environmental justice in Barrio Logan, and nonvoters in the 80th Assembly District explain why they chose not to participate in the recent special election.
-
The vision for a central transit hub in San Diego with direct access to the airport is scrambled, and there has been progress in bringing electric vehicle technology to heavy machinery.
-
The Anza-Borrego Desert State Park suffers loss of vegetation and other effects due to climate change, San Diego weighs how to electrify buildings as part of its larger climate goals and new details show where some of the questionable spending was done by SANDAG as part of an internal audit of the regional planning agency.
-
SeaWorld is negotiating past-due rent tied to the pandemic shutdown in San Diego, a privately operated federal jail will be allowed to stay open, and a local family wants to know why San Diego police didn't investigate a relative's suspicious death.
-
Union vote could bring the first supermarket strike to the area since 2003, San Diego's new community choice energy program prepares for a big expansion, and immigration activists call for an end to asylum measures at the border.
MORE STORIES FEATURING WORK BY THIS AUTHOR
-
She and her husband Irwin Jacobs, the Qualcomm co-founder, donated hundreds of millions of dollars to many San Diego schools and nonprofits, including KPBS.
-
Students at UC San Diego established a "Gaza Solidarity" encampment on the campus' Library Walk Wednesday, joining dozens of universities around the world where students maintain pro-Palestinian sites.
-
Despite ongoing challenges in achieving full protection against evolving viruses with traditional vaccines, researchers at the UC Riverside, developed a “promising” new vaccine strategy.
- San Diego scientists offer non-opioid relief to chronic pain sufferers
- Veterans begin cross-country relay from San Diego
- English language proficiency requirement creates fear among Mexican truck drivers
- Trump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can't
- Captive-bred axolotls thrive in Mexican wetlands, researchers find