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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The Vantage Pointe building in Downtown San Diego has not yet succeeded as a condo project. The building is now being used for an entirely different purpose.
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About 200 homeless people who might have spent Thanksgiving in San Diego’s Winter Homeless Shelter instead spent the holiday out in the cold. The situation likely won’t change for another week. -
Pat-downs, radiation, protesting crowds, surly T.S.A. agents, it’s enough to make you forget that plane trip and stay home this Thanksgiving. But, in reality, things are going pretty smoothly at Lindbergh Field Wednesday.
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A frontrunner is emerging in the race to be San Diego’s next City Council President. Councilman Tony Young appears likely to win the position. -
Normally people can’t dictate how their tax dollars are spent. But San Diego voters may get to decide if they want to keep putting money toward the city pension system. -
There’s a lot of lip service paid to the issue of homelessness around San Diego, but on Wednesday the United Way focused on organizations it supports that are actually working to help the homeless.
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