Katie Orr
AnchorHaving grown up in the San Diego neighborhood of University City, Katie Orr is back in familiar territory as KPBS’ Metro Reporter. She previously worked at WVXU in Cincinnati, Ohio where she served as a reporter and announcer, as well as host of the award winning Cincinnati Edition. She has also reported for WNIN in Evansville, Indiana and for Four Corners Broadcasting in Durango, Colorado. Katie has been recognized by the Indiana and Ohio chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists for her work as well as by the Hearst Journalism Awards and the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards. Katie graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University in 2003.
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San Diego won’t lose too many local jobs when SAIC moves its headquarters to Virginia. But one local business analyst says the city will feel the impact in other ways.
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San Diego is working to smooth over a rough commute for some of the city’s residents. The city is repaving 150 miles of road, nearly half in the city’s urban core. -
Three cities in San Diego’s east county are working together to make their fire departments more efficient.
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The city of San Diego is already feeling the impact of the record breaking $225 million pension payment it will have to make next year. The city is implementing a hiring freeze to help cut costs.
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The San Diego City Council must decide what to do about the contaminated sand at Children’s Pool in La Jolla. On Tuesday the council will consider a $1 million dredging plan that’s meant to restore the beach for swimmers.
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The city of San Diego will have to pay $225 million to its pension fund next year. That’s the largest single pension payment the city’s ever had to make. The pension board decided on Friday not to reduce the size of the payment.
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